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By Phil Doherty THE mother of Karate Instructor Chris Brown - shot dead by Moat - paid tribute to him. Raoul Moat, 37, killed Chris with a shotgun after he bravely went outside to confront the killer who had just shot Samantha Stobbart - Moat's ex-partner - through a living room window. Moat later blinded PC David Rathband, 42, by blasting him in the face as he sat in his police car at East Denton, Newcastle. He shot himself after being surrounded by armed officers in Rothbury, Northumberland.
Sally Brown, in a statement from Northumbria
Police, said: "Christopher was the sort of person who was a 'live
wire' and never sat still. "He believed in living life to the full and having
fun. "He would 'do my head in' how he never sat still.
He
joked about everything and lived for the moment. "He found mental and physical strength and friends in karate. He passed this on to the people he taught." The family also criticised Northumbria Police for not warning Chris and Samantha - who were dating - they had a letter from Durham Prison saying Moat had threatened to hurt Samantha, who was the mother to his child.
Chris, 29, was originally from Slough and had moved to the North East six months prior to his death on Satyrday, July 3rd. He had only started seeing Samantha after meeting her the martial arts class where he taught. The instructor was a member of the Go Kan Ryu Karate organisation had started a new job in Gateshead teaching the system. The system is a mixture of Shotokan Karate and Goju Ryu and was founded in Australia in 1984 by Kancho Robert Sullivan. It has around 50,000 members across Australia, USA, New Zealand and Great Britain.He loved to dance and enjoyed socialising with his friends. NEWS FLASH+++NEWS FLASH+++NEWS FLASH+++NEWS FLAS MOAT TRAPPED BY POLICE IN TOWN   (Caption): Police are hunting Raoul Thomas Moat who is alleged to have shot ex-partner Samantha Stobbart, her boyfriend Chris Brown and police officer David Rathband... By Sean O'Connor A MAN wanted for killing a karate instructor and the shootng of a former partner and a cop has been surrounded by police tonight. Britain's most wanted Raoul Moat, 37, is sitting with a shotgun to his throat with armed officers and snipers around him near the riverside in Rothbury, Northumberland. The fugitive, who has been on the run since last Saturday, was spotted around 7.30pm on Friday. Police were quickly on the scene - with two cop cars crashing into each other in their haste to get to Moat - and were last night laying a cable to Moat who is sitting in view of nearby houses to speak to him People in the village have been told to stay indoors and lock them. Some residents have been trapped in their homes nearby to where Moat is in his stand-off with officers. The tense situation is now quickly turning in to a negotiation phase where police will attempt to persuade Moat to end this peacefully. Its is believed a friend of Moat's has been brought into the police cordon to talk to him He has been on the run since his ex-girlfriend, her new partner - who was killed - and a police officer were shot on Tyneside at the weekend. Moat is alleged to have written a 40-page letter which chillingly told how he had executed Karate instructor Chris Brown, 29, who had confronted him in the street after he shot his former partner Samantha, 22, through a living room window. After gunning Chris down, its claimed the letter said Moat had shot him in the head on Saturday 4th. The next day he is alleged to have shot PC David Rathband, 42, in the face as he sat in his police car at East Denton, Newcastle. Northumbria Police have imposed a 10-mile (16km) exclusion zone above the town. The scene is close to where the Lexus, believed to have been driven by Moat, was found on Tuesday. Three mobile phones used by Moat were recovered by police on Thursday. One was handed in by a member of the public in Rothbury and two were found by police. ********************************************************************By
Sean O'Connor POLICE
hunting alleged
killer Raoul Moat are intensifying their search for him in the wooded
hills around Rothbury. Moat,
37, of
Newcastle, who is alleged to have a killed karate instructor, shot his
former
girlfriend and blasted a police officer in the face, is
believed by police
to have fled there from Tyneside and been hiding in rural
Northumberland in a
tent. Police
are reported to
have enlisted an associate of Moat to show them the places they had
frequented
in the area. The
man, who was not
named by police, was escorted by armed officers and was
wearing body
armour. The
Metropolitan Police sent 40
armed officers to assist the hunt and the
Police
Service of Northern Ireland announced it was sending 20 armoured cars.
Moat is alleged to have written a 40-page letter which chillingly told how he had executed Karate instructor Chris Brown, 29, who had confronted him in the street after he shot his former partner Samantha, 22, through a living room window. After gunning Chris down, its claimed the letter said Moat had shot him in the head on Saturday 4th. The next day he is alleged to have shot PC David Rathband, 42, in the face as he sat in his police car at East Denton, Newcastle. Police were alerted that Moat could be in Rothbury after resident spotted an abandoned car the police believed Moat was travelling in. Scores of heavily armed police officers swarmed into the village, ordering people to go indoors and lock them on Tuesday. Two men, first said to be hostages, but later arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, were found walking along a road near Rothbury. By Wednesday the search for the suspected was widening out after a tent was found in a field outside of the village. Another letter said to be addressed to Samantha was found at the campsite. Detective Chief Superintendent Neil Adamson, in charge of the operation, said he believed that Moat was in the area, but admitted he could have fled. Its believed that Moat may be armed with two shotguns and has ammunition for them. Police offered a £10,000 reward for information that leads to his detention. Moat, was was released from Durham Prison last week after serving a sentence for violence against a family member. The prison warned police by letter that they thought he may harm Samantha on release after she left him while he as in prison. It said she had wrote on her Facebook account that she was seeing a police officer because she was scared of his violence and wanted him to stay away from her. But instead she had been dating Karate instructor Chris Brown who she met while learning the martial art at a Go Kan Ryu dojo in the North East. Chris had only been in the region for a few months, having moved from his native Slough, Berks, to take up a job in Karate. Its has been reported that he had threatened to kill Samantha in the past and had a history of domestic violence against her. Samantha has a daughter aged 19-months to Moat. She was critically injured in the shooting but has steadily made progress since. PC Rathband, who was shot in the face, asked colleagues to release a picture of his horrific injuries so the public could see what Moat is alleged to have done. In a rambling letter Moat is said to have "declared war " on the police and said he wasn't looking to hurt anyone but police officers. Moat is said to know the Rothbury and surrounding areas well after a relationship with a Rothbury girl some years ago. The woman, Yvette foreman, 35, used to camp out with Moat in the area and that he had got to know the area well. The had been girl and boyfiend in their 20's, and she described him at the time as a "lovely lad" and a practical joker who was "daft as a brush". On Tuesday she said, because of Moat's knowledge of the area, it could take police a while to find him in the dense wooded Cheviot Hills.
If
anyone has information they should phone Northumbria Police on 03456 043 043. JUNE
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CAGE FIGHT NIGHT LOOKING FOR
FIGHTERSBy Phil Doherty phil.doherty@martialnews.co.uk THE promoters of the Cage Fight Night series are looking for pro and semi-pro fighters to take part in the Battle at the Castle show. The MMA and K-1 rules fight night is being held in Castle Morpeth's Riverside Leisure Centre on Saturday, July 10th. It will be raising cash for Help For Heroes – the armed forces charity that helps wounded soldiers and bereaved families. The event, organised by
DFM Martial Art, starts at 7pm with doors opening at 6.30pm. Organised by DFM Martial Arts, the event will feature Northumberland’s own warriors the DFM Reivers MMA club, as well as some of the top fighting teams in the region including The Northern Academy, Combat North East, the Tap-out Academy, and Cyclone Wing Chun, The DOJO, Team Aggression, UMAC, 8th Wonder, and KO Kickboxing. Darren Currah, of DFM Martial Arts, said: "We are still looking for fighters at Pro and semi-pro MMA as well as female fighters and K-1 and Kickboxing."We welcome any club with fighting spirit to our events and are always keen to welcome new entrants to the show. "So if you want to join the fight card email me at the address below or Facebook me." Amateur fighters
will receive
£25 expenses plus £5 for each ticket they
sell, Tickets:
£350 for a VIP (includes table
service); Table of five outer ring (no waitress service)
£150; standard (theatre
style seating) £25;
Sponsor
packages available. Enquire for details. To join the fight card contact: darren.currah@martialnews.co.uk Or to buy tickets go to
NEW CAGE FIGHT NIGHT ANNOUNCED  By Phil Doherty, Pics by Phil Punton phil.doherty@martialnews.co.uk A SPECTACULAR Cage Fight
Night is being held in Castle Morpeth's Riverside Leisure Centre.
It is being held at the
Riverside
Leisure Centre, Castle Morpeth, Northumberland, on Saturday, July 10th
from 7pm, doors opening at 6.30pm. Organised
by DFM Martial
Arts, the event will feature Northumberland’s own warriors
the
DFM Reivers MMA
club , as well as some of the top fighting teams in the region
including Caged Steel, Tap-out Academy, Aikikickboxing and Cyclone Wing
Chun, Northern Academy, Darlington
Freestyle, 8th
Wonder, and San Shou. "There will be pro, semi-pro and amateur MMA and full contact K-1 rules kickboxing. "Cage Kombat Pro Cruiserweight Champion Liam Holborn, and assistant coach of the Reivers is fighting Kyle Craig of Scott Emmerson's Aiki-kickboxing team at K-1 kickboxing. "The top pro
mma bout between
Pawel Bialas, of the White Warriors, and Mark Aldridge from Caged Steel
at
70kg, promises to be a fantastic clash of skill and expertise. "Then there
is Craig Utley, The
DOJO who is taking on Robert Bolam, Cyclone Martial Arts in K-1 at
82kg, and
many more talented fighters." As well as red hot fight action Cage Fight Night's favourite dance troop the sizzling Swag, of the Just Dance Studios, will also be showing their moves as well as fulfilling our Cage Girl role.
There will be a bar in the main auditorium as well as stalls selling mma gear and fashion. Cage Fight
Night T-shirts will be available for sale. Amateur fighters
will receive
£25 expenses plus £5 for each ticket they
sell, Pro purses
TBC, enquire for details. Each club will receive two free passes
for Tickets:
£350 for a VIP (includes table
service); Table of five outer ring (no waitress service)
£150; standard (theatre
style seating) £25;
Sponsor
packages available. Enquire for details. To join the fight card contact: darren.currah@martialnews.co.uk see below
WANT TO FIGHT ON THE SHOW? DFM Martial
Arts is looking
for fighters to take part in a special cage fight in aid of Help For
Heroes,
the charity that helps wounded soldiers and bereaved
families from the battlefields of The group is looking for MMA, kickboxing and K - 1 fighters at amateur, semi-pro and pro levels in MMA and full-contact in stand-up bouts. The "The fight night will consist of alternative MMA and kickboxing and K - 1 bouts held in a cage." The event has been named Battle for the Castle and is part of DFM's Cage Fight Night series. Amateur fighters will receive £25 expenses plus £5 for each ticket they sell, semi-pro MMA and kickboxers will receive £50 expenses plus £5 for every ticket sold. Pro purses TBC, enquire for details. Each club will receive two free passes for corner. Tickets:
£25 standard, Table of 5 non-waitress £150; Table
of 10 cage side £350;
Sponsor packages
available. Enquire for details. Or email DFM Reivers head coach
Robert Currah: robert@currah35.wanadoo.co.uk |
MMA FIGHTER PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ABUSE A CAGE fighter has pleaded not guilty to charges he abused his girlfriend's daughter. Michael Mininger, 28, is alleged to have molested the nine-year-old girl over a three month period. He denies the allegations. John Clark, representing Mininger, said: "He’s willing to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence." Mininger is
charged with first degree rape and
first degree child molestation. ***********************
TEACHER ARRESTED FOR SEX WITH GIRL A HIGH school teacher has been arrested for suspected sexual contact with a child. Alex Tinsley, 51, was arrested shortly before he was due to fly to Japan with a group of his karate students. He now faces a charge of sex assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. He
was arrested at the police station after turning himself into officers. He is also a Japanese teacher at the Longmont High
School ***************************
WHITE
WOLF WINS 13th INTERNATIONAL TITLE EDUARD "White
Wolf" Mammadov has won his 13th international title at the
WAKO World Cup.
White Wolf - from Azerbaijan - was crown the World heavyweight low-kick champion at the World Association of Kickboxing Organisations World cup held at Szeged, Hungry from 21st to 23rd of May. The Azerbaijani team won five gold, four silver and one bronzer medal in total. VAN DAMME AND YEOH VOICE KUNG FU PANDA 2  Martial Arts actors Michelle Yeoh and Jean Claude Van Damme and are joining the voice cast of Kung Fu Panda: The Kingdom of Doom. Van Damme and Yeoh are joining fellow thespians Gary Oldman, Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman in the Dreamworks Animation sequel. Oyther actors include Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, James Hong and David Cross. The film will be released in May next year. ************************ KUNG FU COACH AND POLICE EXTORTION CHARGE A KUNG Fu uinstructor has appeared in a magistrates court charged alongside three police officers of an extortion racket. The four men are accused of plotting to extort RM100,000 (£21,000) out of a trader in Malaysia. Chan Chee Leong, 38, pleaded not guilty to charges he aided and abetted the three police officers. Its alleged that they attempted to takes money from gold jewellery trader, Wan Kei Chin, 41, at the premises of Big Sum Watch and Jewellery Trading, on Aug 29, 2005. The offence carries a maximum jail sentence of 10 years or fine or whipping, if convicted. ***************************
MUAY THAI COACH "TOUCHED" STUDENT  AN instructor has been accused of inappropriately touching a student. Phetsamone Phongsavane, 43, of San Antonio was arrested by police and bailed. The instructor runs the Shadowfist and Muay Thai Academy on Hillcrest Drive, San Antonio. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault on an eight-year-old girl. The alleged victim is now 18-years-old. He said the accusations came out of nowhere. ***********************
BLIND SCHOOL AFFILIATE TO KARATE
BODY THE School for Blind Children in Santa Cruz has affiliated to the Trinidad and Tobago Karate Federation (TTKF). Students will be taught by Sensei Rae Johnson, 3rd Dan. The
school, located in Paxvale, Santa Cruz, is run by
Principal Derrick Mundy, himself a 3rd Kyu Brown Belt. For more info email at openway10@yahoo.com ***********************
A KARATE instructor has been jailed for ten years for trying to entice a youngster to have sex with him. Matthew Lewis was convicted of child enticement by the jury. He now faces a mandatory ten years in prison. The court heard how Lewis made contact with an undercover cop pretending to be a ten-year-old girl. Lewis had arranged to met her with the view of having sex with her. His lawyer argued that he never intended to go through with the meeting and therefore he didn't warrant such a high sentence. But this was rejected by the jury who found him guilty as charged. ***********************
A KARATE school owner has been charged with supplying cocaine. Gorman Jenkins, 50, of Valdosta, Georgia, US, is alleged to have sold the drug out of the school. He is also charged - alongside another man - with a home invasion robbery in Lake City, Florida. According to investigators Jenkins sold 400grams of cocaine to undercover officers over two months. He and alleged accomplice Carlos Singletary, 29, were arrested by Florida Police and are being held their on robbery charges. He has now been charged with trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. ***********************
FORMER UFC FIGHTER ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT A FORMER UFC fighter has been charged with several sexual offences. Michael Whitehead, 28, who appeared on Ultimate Fighter 2, is alleged to have had sex with a sleeping woman at his home. The woman claims that she and a friend went to Whitehead's Southwest Valley home and had too much to drink. Whitehead is said to agreed to the two women sleeping in his bed. Later one of the women claims she found him having sex with her. Despite demands by her for him to stop he continued, it is alleged. The second woman claims to have saw the incident and has also claimed he groped her. He is facing a number of charges including sexual assault and open and gross lewdness. *********************** MMA EXPO STRUCK DOWN BY CITY MAYOR AND POLICE A MIXED Martial Arts Expo has been left reeling after its show was canceled by the authorities. The MMA Expo was due to take place in on Saturday, April 10th and Sunday, 11th, in Abbotsford, Vancouver, Canada. But the show - which was a trade fair for MMA world - was canceled by the city's mayor over fears that rival gang members may attend the event. Organiser Gerald Chopik received the news with only 20 days to go. He said: "I was dumbfounded. Totally dumbfounded. "This will be our sixth year running this event, and we’ve never had a policeman have to come to one of our events, we’ve never had a problem. Families attend these events. This is not a real reason." But Mayor
George Peary said: "If this
event is an attractor to some of these people ... then it’s
not going to happen here." ************************
PAKISTAN TO HOST TWO CHAMPIONSHIPS PAKISTAN has been awarded the International Belt Wrestling Sports 8th World Championship. The country has also won the host nation for the Asian Governing Body of Ju-Jitsu and Belt Wrestling 4th Asian Championship. The events are being run Pakistan Juj-jitsu Federation in Islamabad with the government and the Pakistan Olympic Association. Around 70 countries are likely to participate in this event. ************************ A NEW York Governor has
overturned a law forcing martial arts and yoga Gov. David Paterson's Bill stops the state from forcing yoga and martial arts instructors to obtain state licenses. This follows notification from New York State in April 2009 that all instructors in both disciplines needed licence. They were told they had to close their doors until they had obtained the licence. Failure
would have resulted in a $50,000 (£33,500) maximum penalty. The State had been warned that the licence would have seen many yoga and martial arts clubs close down. |
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