RAF Tornado joins Northumberland manhunt

[jEtGuiDeR]

Northumbria Police have said that if the killer isn't caught by tomorrow night, they'll increase the reward to £20,000. It's a Raoul over

[stbd beam]

Well, unlike Ashley Cole, at least Mr Moat is still messing around in the Geordie bush ....

[Bo Nalls]

Acting Chief Constable .........................Lady Tottington
Sue Sim

[RumPunch]

PMSL BO

Just discussing this at work today, and would a Nimrod MR2 be an ideal asset to have airbourne over Northumberland now. With a Wescam and a few guys down the back with radio contact with the Police. I dont know if anything else we have maybe King Air to do some work like that. Somebody says the UAV things but I not sure if they cleared to fly over the UK.

Night time sortie, Wescam infra red on a certain area would be ideal I would have thought , Aircrew im sure will give me a better answer

[Neptunus Rex]

Brilliant, Bo.
One of them looks like she has just had a good seein' to!

[Finnpog]

Yep - their SMS team (Special Moat Squadron)

That's not RaoulMoatly funny.

[Guzlin Adnams]

Text:
Dear Mr Moat, John Terry's been givin your Mrs a good seeing too,
Have a nice day, Wayne Bridge.

[Cows getting bigger]

I can think of more appropriate military assets than a GR4 with, presumably, a Raptor pod.

Maybe they should offer him a one-on-one with the Perma-Queen.

[air pig]

Where's a Canberra when you need it?

[fincastle84]

Rumpunch

Totally agree, let's get a Nimrod up there. It can loiter right through the night & sanitise the area. 'Nihil nos effugit' for our ex 206 readers.

Oh b*gger, I forgot, Gordon scrapped them.

[OHP 15M]

Raul's moat

I don't know, all this fuss just because a Spanish footballer has a water-filled ditch around his property?

[minigundiplomat]

Face for radio.

[Donna K Babbs]

The sooner they get the MRA4 into service the better. This would be a perfect job for the platform - night and day (and with its improved endurance it would be even better than the MR2).

[Easy Street]

I can think of more appropriate military assets than a GR4 with, presumably, a Raptor pod.

So can I - including a GR4 with a Litening pod (the imagery can be assessed in real time either in-cockpit or via ROVER). Perfect for sweeping a rural perimeter in IR and visible, leaving the ASU to search built-up areas from closer range. A Reaper would also be nice if the CAA would allow it.

Seems like the police have found him!

[Paracab]

Rest easy Gentleman, no further RAF assets are required: Gazza has turned up at the police cordon, claiming him to be Moat's mate. Lucky its Gazza; for anyone else such an act would be career suicide.

[mystic_meg]

Isn't she Marty Feldman's sister? Or maybe it's the man himself in drag? I mean... look at her/his right eye, dead giveaway!

[NURSE]

I wonder who else was deployed to help with the search? sugest some other air and ground assets were putting expertise to use.

[NURSE]

or those nice modified king airs no one talks about!

[fincastle84]

Don't forget the Dornier 228!

[sycamore]

I would think there will be a lot of `sloping-shoulders` and pack-shuffling in the upper echelons of the Police going on now ,as a few careers are also going to go down the culvert !

Send for Dirty Harry next time ....