Tango 190

TANGO 190

PC David Rathband

"On 1st July 2010, Raoul Moat was released from Durham Prison. Within 48 hours he had shot his ex partner Sam Stobbart and brutally murdered her new boyfriend Chris Brown.

In the early hours of 4th July Police Constable PC David Rathband was gunned down while sitting in his patrol car in East Denton, just outside Newcastle upon Tyne. 

PC Rathband was blinded for life and one off the biggest manhunts in police history began. culminating in Moat's death six days later in the small Northumberland town of Rothbury.

For the first time this is PC David Rathband's story in his own words....

The extraordinary events that followed PC Rathband's shooting, as police tracked Moat through towns and countryside, dominated the headlines and became one off the biggest and most controversial news stories off recent times. Often bordering on the ridiculous, it featured unexpected cameos from TV survival expert Ray Mears and former England footballer Paul Gascoigne. It ended with a stand-off between Moat and armed Police on the banks of the River Coquet in Rothbury.  In the middle of it all was PC David Rathband, a dignified presence throughout.  Tango 190 is his personal account off the attack and events surrounding it.  It is also the story off physical recuperation and the gradual and courageous rebuilding of his life, with the help of his family in the wake of terrible injuries sustained in the line of duty.

PC David Rathband's courage, fortitude and good humor in light of his horrifying ordeal are extraordinary. This book tells David's own story and its a remarkable one."

I have too admit I started this book with a little skepticism, thinking that this would be an account off all the suffering and hardship the tragic shooting had had on both PC David Rathband and his family.  I am happy too say that this is not the case at all, from the very start David conducts his manner in a very professional and outstanding manner and as I see it even though he has gone through being both shot and loosing his eye sight, he has written his account off events with dignity.

I found it intriguing how one man would want too cause such devastation too not only his own family but someone else's too, what Raoul Moat did when he got out off prison in my eyes, was both cowardly and completely uncalled for.

What I also found quite un nerving was how the police had received a call from Moat, saying that he was going too go after Police Officers and shoot them, but they never ever got any warnings off what he had said too the control room as, in my eyes it took far too long for them too analyze what to do with the information and then how it was hidden and concealed from everyone till  the operator who took the call came forward.

I am going too rate this book 8/10 and would highly recommend anyone who enjoys reading too give it a try x