There is an authentic Manhunt happening here

And if a person wanted to figure out quite a lot of things about England very fast, it would be a good idea to read about how this whole thing is being treated by the police and the papers and everything.
This guy, who used to be a bouncer and then a bodybuilder, shot his ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend, and then disappeared. He then wrote a 49 page letter to the police where he said a number of very insane things. The Sun has been publishing extracts of it, especially the bits where he explicitly says how much he wants to kill chavs, and the police, and social workers, and people who work for the Environmental Agency.
Obviously this is one of those stories where The Unfolding Man Hunt is front page news in the Sun and the Daily Mail and those, but doesnt really make it past the fifth page in the guardian or the independent or whatever. Obviously. It Doesn't Take A Rocket Scientist etc etc.
It still is a bit strange though. If you wanted to be all class warrior about it, there are a number of things you could say.
The other thing is that this guys's name is "Raoul Moat". If I had sat for a hundred years trying to think of the scariest name in the world, I could never have come up with something as sinister and horrible as that. "Raoul Moat".