The gripping days when Nottinghamshire Police's biggest ever manhunt sought to capture two murderers hiding out in the same Annesley woods

The former nightclub doorman shot ex-partner Samantha Stobbart and killed her new boyfriend Chris Brown, before evading capture for a week.

The manhunt ended in dramatic fashion with Moat taking his own life at the end of a six-hour stand-off with police in the early hours of 10 July, 2010.

Most folk up and down the land who lived through that period will instantly know the man, the image and the events behind that real-life ‘made for Hollywood’ police operation.

However, few outsiders will vividly recall the tense 17 days when people around Mansfield and Ashfield were captivated by the tragic events that unfolded after the sobering murder of Huthwaite’s Chanel Taylor.

Yet these shocking events may sound familiar to some with the real-life murder inspiring the first season of hit BBC drama Sherwood.

The horrific killing occurred back in 2004 and came just seven weeks after the popular hairdresser had married her sweetheart Lee Taylor.

The tragic shooting was made even more heart-breaking when it became clear that she had met her sad demise at the hands of her father.

Dad Terry Rodgers, who had been at his daughter’s side on her wedding day, had moved in with his daughter weeks earlier after he had been thrown out of their South Normanton home by wife Anne Macpherson.

Chanel (23), and Lee (22), had been a couple for four years and lived at a terraced house in New Street.

At around 1pm on July 30, Lee returned to the couple's home to find Chanel dead in the kitchen diner. She had been shot four times.

Prime suspect Rodgers (55), who had previously been jailed for 18 months for assaulting his first wife, had gone on the run and was nowhere to be seen.

The methodical search for the heartless killer immediately got underway and would eventually become the biggest manhunt in Nottinghamshire history, involving more than 450 police officers from eight different forces at a cost of more than £1.5m.

Police believed that he had fled into Annesley Woods where, even more bizarrely, another murderer, Robert Boyer, was also hiding out.

Boyer, 42, was the main suspect in the death of Keith Frogson, a 62-year-old ex-miner, was discovered near his home in Bentinck Street, Annesley Woodhouse, on July 19.

Mr Frogson had been killed with a crossbow and Samurai sword, which it later emerged Boyer had bought for £150 online.

After receiving information that one or both men were hiding in the woods, police began a joint search, codenamed Operation Rendition, with scores of police vehicles lining the A611 and ground officers, specialist dog teams and aerial support all combining to close the net on the wanted duo.

Multiple media appeals were made by family members urging Rodgers to do the right thing and turn himself in.

It would take an intense 17 days of searching before cops finally snared the pair.

Boyer was the first to be found on 15 August after his woodland shelter was detected by police and ambushed during a covert operation.

The following day Rodgers was also captured by armed officers during which he was said to have given up without a struggle.

Boyer later pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Keith Frogson and was given an indefinite hospital order at Nottingham Crown Court.

Rodgers admitted Chanel's manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but denied her murder. However, prosecutors refused to accept his plea, and a murder trial was set for March 6, 2006.

But it was a trial the callous Rodgers was destined never to make after he chose to go on a hunger strike in Lincoln Prison where he was on remand.

Cold-blooded Rodgers was transferred to Lincoln County Hospital where he died on 25 Feb, 2006 bringing the tear-jearking story to a sober end.