Who killed Jill Dando?

The most significant thing to me is that although she was killed at her own front door she was no longer living there. She had been living at her partner's place for months.

She visited her own house only 2 or 3 times a week. So a random nutter who knew that was her house would in all probability have to wait in the street for a day or so. But we know the guy was only hanging about for 40 minutes. And it might have only been 5 minutes had Jill not made a trip to the shops on the way.

So either a stalker nutcase landed a long odds chance in arriving the same hour she did or the killer knew she was on her way.

*hit

glad you spotted my cryptic clue, casemoney

I don't think anyone knows for sure

They arrested one man and convicted him, as he seemed to fit the profile, but the evidence was a bit circumstantial and he was cleared
on appeal.

Plenty of conspiracy theories, take your pick?

Very hard to understand how it could be anything other than a hit.

ok conspiracy theories

Barry Mercury has F.A to do with it that is a certainty ...

Whatever else it was, it was certainly the perfect murder. Not only did the killer escape the scene, someone else was convicted. It is well known that most murders are committed by spouses, family, acquaintances. If it is none of the aforementioned, the police are all at sea and dependent on "information"! With the passage of time I believe the killer will never be caught and we will never know what happened. Now, if the murder had taken place in Los Angeles, Cabot Cove or one of the Midsomers, Columbo, Ms Fletcher or Barnaby would of solved the crime in less than 2 hours (with ad breaks). I have to be flippant because Jill's murder was a terrible tragedy, and upset me greatly at the time. She seemed such a lovely lady and the perp has clearly got away with it. There is a theory that all perps leave something incriminating at the crime scene. This perp apparently did not. All points to a well thought out pro hit. Could not have been anything to do with the Beeb as an emblem of lefty loveliness would of been left as evidence at the crime scene.

When I watched that program, I was not happy with his conviction myself, they made a good case

So was glad he was cleared on appeal

Although I don't know anything for certain??????????????????????

He was seen on the street by a least one witness

For the defence William Clegg QC reminded the jury that evidence from three women from HAFAD (Hammersmith and Fulham Action on Disability) placed the defendant's arrival at their offices at 11:50 or 12:00, which, according to Clegg's argument, would have made it impossible for him to have committed a murder at Dando's house at 11:30 and then gone home (in the wrong direction) to change. Two neighbours who almost certainly saw the murderer immediately after the shooting had seen him go off in this direction, and later failed to identify George at an identification parade. The trial ended with George's acquittal on 1 August 2008.


No further questions your honour.

thought serbians did it for revenge for a strike at a news station

What happened that evening.....

Monday April 26, 1999



10.03am A postman delivering mail to Jill’s empty home at 29 Gowan Avenue, Fulham, notices he is being watched by a dark-haired man wearing a suit standing opposite.

10.05am Jill leaves her fiance Alan Farthing’s home in Chiswick to go shopping in nearby Hammersmith.

10.05am A traffic warden patrolling in the Gowan Avenue and Munster Road area spots a blue Range Rover parked illegally. She begins to note the number but stops when the driver protests. She erases the information.

10.10am A woman driver turning into Gowan Avenue notices a dark-haired man wearing a suit walking along the road. She is then followed at close quarters by a blue Range Rover before it stops near Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage stadium.

10.23am Jill is seen on CCTV stopping in her BMW convertible for petrol at a BP garage on the Great West Road.

10.40am A window cleaner working at 26 Gowan Avenue notices a man standing outside Jill’s house talking on a mobile phone. 10.46am Jill is seen at Rymans stationers in Hammersmith shopping mall.

10.55am She is spotted at The Link electrical shop. She also bought two Dover sole fillets. She received and made a number of calls during her shopping trip.

11.00am A blue Range Rover is again spotted parked in the Gowan Avenue and Munster Road area. A motorist driving along Gowan Avenue sees a dark-haired and smartly dressed man standing in the road speaking into a mobile phone.

11.00-11.29am While leaving home, a female neighbour of Jill spots a man, again dark-haired and wearing a suit, standing between parked cars. Another woman sees a man of similar description walking along Gowan Avenue.


11.30am After parking her blue BMW, Jill walks to her front door and is shot in the head. Two witnesses saw a man running from No 29. He was said to have thick black hair and be wearing a waxed jacket. by a 9mm calibre semi-automatic pistol.

11.32am CCTV images show a metallic blue Range Rover travelling at high speed down Fulham Palace Road.


11.40am A man is spotted crouching by railings in Bishops Park furtively talking into a mobile phone.

11.52am A motorist is forced to brake hard as a man runs across Fulham Palace Road from Gowan Avenue.

1.03pm Jill is pronounced dead at Charing Cross Hospital. A i m A m f J The bullet The e-fit suspect T The house Shopping trip S CCTV The gun The scene D






Jill Dando timeline.....


April 26, 1999, 11.30am Jill’s shot dead with single bullet to the head outside her home in Fulham, South West London.
May 25, 2000 Police arrest Barry George, also known as Barry Bulsara, following surveillance on him.
July 2, 2001 A jury finds George guilty of murder on a 10-1 majority. He is later sentenced to life imprisonment.

July 29, 2002 George loses an appeal against his conviction at the Court of Appeal in London.
December 16 House of Lords refuses permission for George to mount a further challenge.

March 25, 2006 It is revealed lawyers for George have submitted new evidence which they believe undermines safety of his conviction.
June 20, 2007 Criminal Cases Review Commission refers the conviction to the Court
of Appeal.

October 29 Foreman of the jury that convicted George in 2001 says he might have been found not guilty if crucial evidence linked to firearms residue found in his pocket was presented differently.
November 5 George begins second appeal.

November 15 George’s appeal is upheld and a retrial ordered after scientists challenge firearms evidence.
June 9, 2008 Retrial begins at the Old Bailey with the judge ruling out the inclusion of the residue evidence.
August 1 George cleared of the Crimewatch presenter’s murder. He loses bid for compensation in 2013.


February 2014 Serbian assassins linked to the murder.

Firearms residue expert Professor Marco Morin says the single particle taken from Barry George's coat may not have even come from a gun.


He assumed the identity of 'Steve Majors' and claimed to be a stuntman; he convinced a stadium to stage a show in which he would jump over four double-decker buses on roller skates; he injured himself attempting this stunt.

What a legend.

The particle found by on his clothing was the same as that found at the murder scene

yeah that fibre one is difficult to get past

The raincoat had been left lying on the ground for between six and nine hours after the murder, Robson suggested. The fibre might have been dropped by anyone passing. "It could have come from the suits or trousers in Miss Dando's wardrobe or from [her fiance] Alan Farthing's wardrobe," he said. "It could have been contaminated by people walking past [on the path]."

really? seems more likely it was someone who was directly in contact with her when she was murdered.

seems evidence against George was flimsy and he was of low intelligence but still not certain he didn't do it.

Everything I have posted is fact