"My sympathies are with the victims"

I don't think anyone is going to disagree with that - even those who may feel compassion for the perpetrator (a very emotionally and mentally disturbed individual) AND also with the (accountable) public servants who had to deal with a difficult situation.

I would however really like to see the press and other media also held to 'accountability' in this instance.

The media reaction, that can only be described as a 'feeding frenzy' may be 'explained' to some extent as such episodes are thankfully still very rare in Britain due, at least to some degree, to severe legal restrictions on the availability of firearms.

But this went much further

I share the views of at least one blogger who observed

"Raoul Moat, a troubled and violent man, had to be apprehended. His willingness to kill and maim presented a real danger to the police and the public.....
Sufficient to know that he was dangerous and should not be approached.
Instead, the man who was the subject of the hunt was turned into the monstrous 'other' who makes our flesh creep, and through that de-humanisation, serves to reassure us of our own 'normality'.

Raoul Moat's dysfunction was turned into an 'infotainment' spectacle; his sickness met something ill-considered and undiscerning in our society and the outcome was demeaning to us all."