David Rathband, found dead

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Fecks sake. More salt in the wounds! It makes me very angry hearing this news. I'm presuming that it was self inflicted. There needs to be a proper system to vet and observe known criminals.

Suicide by all accounts.

3rdforum wrote:Fecks sake. More salt in the wounds! It makes me very angry hearing this news. I'm presuming that it was self inflicted. There needs to be a proper system to vet and observe known criminals.

its the only sensible answer to it all.

He was treated badly by the police force, Once the media went back under their stones, They could have found him a job answering phones or something, Just so he felt usefull, How much is prescot getting, him that punches people in the face on tv,?

Very sad news indeed, he lived in Blyth prior & after the 'incident' but is not from my home town and the estate he lived on is at the extreme edges of the town and is actually closed to Bedlington than Blyth.

Not speaking ill of the dead or casting aspersions on him because it was a terrible thing that happened to him but he was know as a 'strong' character before the whole R.Moat incident.

Work colleague lived next door to him and had several run ins with him over the communal parking space outside there houses that he claimed as his own and twice verbally tore a strip off mates son for parking in the space, using his favourite saying off "Do you know who I'am, I am the law", it twice almost came to blows as mate went to investigate what was going on.
His wife had her car vandalised outside there house after another dispute with people not long before the terrible incident that ultimately took his life.

The family moved to nearby Cramlington not long after he returned home but he left the family home not long ago after he apparently set about his wife moving back the same estate in Blyth they had lived on prior to the shooting.

With all the accomplishes of Moat's being from Blyth it's not one of the towns finer moments, my eldest daughter went to school with one of them and was staggered to hear he was involved. Had been thee shyest quietest of lads all through school never anything but perfect students but she had heard he'd getting in with some wrongin's since school seems all the accomplishes from Blyth & surrounding areas knew each other through the 'hard man' type gym scene.

The whole thing has split opinion in the town, recently there were 3 'artistic' statues erected in the towns park, Michael Sweeney (the only solider from Blyth to be killed in Afgan wars), Stan Laurel of Laurel & Hardy fame (after his dad ran the now demolished famous Theartre Royal in Blyth where Stan first thread the boards) and David Rathband but despite his outstanding bravery and superb charity activities his only actual connection to the town was he lived here when shot but with some many involved from Blyth people think its wrong to bracket him with the others.

A whole big sad & sorry event.



Hope he now finds peace now
RIP David Rathband.

hope his charity continues as tribute to him.

BS, Saw that he was associated with Blyth and guessed you would have the low-down.

We kinda knew Phil Olds the policeman who was shot in the Hayes off-licence robbery. We were actually driving past as it happened and didn´t know what was going on. He came across as a really nice guy and got the Queens Award for Gallantry or Bravery (or whatever). He was really a thug, he used to beat up his girlfriend and was always a loudmouth, that was before he was paralysed so he probably got worse afterwards. He finally committed suicide.

As long as no one tries to blame his ex for leaving him, on his suicide. He had a choice when he belted her.

Nice story G,