UK UK - Jill Dando, 37, Fulham, London, 26 Apr 1999

[jojojaja]

I'm not sure if I missed it, I sometimes do, but I couldn't see the Crimewatch reconstruction here.

 

[dotr]

Who killed Jill Dando? Documentary examines one of Britain's most high-profile cases

A new NQI documentary today reveals a catalogue of police failings in one of the most high-profile murder investigations in modern British history.

www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk

March 20 2023
''NQI's (Newsquest Investigates) latest documentary, presented by former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, uncovers a series of police failings.


The documentary-makers have been given exclusive access to the original police files containing thousands of documents, intelligence reports, as well as photographs and footage.

The 15-minute film also includes an interview with Barry George following his release from prison.

You can watch the full film below''

 

[SteadyEddy]

1999
BBC News | UK | Dando detectives pleased with fresh appeal

''Police have issued this e-fit of their prime suspect
The description, which was used to compile the E-fit of the suspect, matched a number of descriptions of a man seen running from the scene.
The suspect is reported to have stood at the bus stop for several minutes until the 220 bus arrived.''
The Crimewatch UK and former Holiday presenter was pictured shopping at Dixons in the Kings Mall shopping centre at Hammersmith, west London, at 1055 BST.

She went to the mall after leaving her fiancé Dr Alan Farthing's home in nearby Chiswick.
The BBC's John Brain: Images may jog people's memories
The footage shows the 37-year-old wearing a beige raincoat, red button-up jacket, black trousers and boots, and carrying a white carrier bag in her left hand, with a black handbag over her right shoulder.
She first went to buy white A4 fax paper from Ryman's in King Street and then walked to Dixons.
Ms Dando was looking for blue ink cartridge for her fax machine.
Driving her blue BMW
Police say she left without finding what she wanted, and may have gone to look for it at another shop.
She then left the mall and drove to her home in her dark blue BMW convertible.''

''Pictures were taken 40 minutes before the murder
She is known to have called someone on her mobile phone at about 11am, although the nature of her call is not considered to be relevant.
A witness believes he spotted her driving her BMW towards Fulham along Distillery Road, Hammersmith, which runs parallel to Fulham Palace Road and is known as a short cut.

But following that, there is a gap in police knowledge of Ms Dando's movements, until she drove into Gowan Avenue from the Munster Road end at about 1130 BST.

It is thought that at some point around this time she stopped at another shop to buy two fillets of Dover sole.

Officers appealed for anyone with CCTV cameras pointing towards the road along the route she is thought to have taken to contact them immediately.

Officers want to examine footage covering her presumed route, and any taken in the area where the murder suspect and a mystery Range Rover were later seen.

The three stretches they are concerned with are those between Chiswick and Hammersmith, Hammersmith and Gowan Avenue, and Gowan Avenue and Putney Bridge.''

What I find strange is that this was not Jill dando's killer. This was a composit of the man that was standing at the bus stop, who has long since been found and ruled out! Yet peoole still believe this is the man of Interest.

Either the police royally messed this up, or they want us to be focusing on somebody they know was not her killer. Why?

 

[SteadyEddy]

There are only 2 possibilities regarding somebody knowing that she was going home.

The 1st one is her neighbour Richard Hughes, who happened to be home at that time watching out of his window & commenting on every little thing that she did. He says he watched her arrive home, He heard her car alarm go on and the gate click shut but didn't hear the gunshots...

The other possibility is that she innocently spoke to somebody while she was leaving her fiance's house who was obsessed with her, and she told him he would she was nipping home.

It should also be noted that she had a friendship with that neighbour (RH) and would regularly go into his house for evening drinks. That neighbour was actually an initial suspect and it was him who led the police to Barry George!

He states in interviews he was the 1st on the scene (he wasn't, Vivian saunders found Jill) He claims he only saw the back of somebody walking away, yet when he was in court gives a detailed description and says that he thought he looked like Comedian, Bob Mills. Funnily enough you could describe Barry George's looking like Bob Mills.

Now picture the scene. He says he saw Jill arriving home and heard the car alarm go on. But he doesn't see any body else behind her. Now given the fact it would have taken Jill 30 seconds to get to her front door, it would be almost impossible not to see somebody following her.

The other option is that perhaps her killer was in her house and when she opened the door he was there and the scream of suprise was down to that. ( people don't see people coming with their backs to them if her killer came from behind)! Jill's keys were maybe left in the door and after he shot her he pulled the door shut before walking away Leaving police believing that she had not entered her house. If that explanation is what happened then the person was either in her house looking for something ( incriminating documents) or was burglarizing her property & had the gun with him ( maybe stolen in another burglary) and when she let out the suprise scream, he forced her to the floor with the gun and pulled the trigger.

I would be looking much closer to home!

It was also Richard Hughes's brother who purchased Jill dando's home. Two people said that they saw an estate agent hanging around outside of her property before her murder. Who was he meeting...and was there something in the sale of her home that caused this?

 

[SteadyEddy]

Pros don’t make their own bullets , they just use a smaller caliber gun and correspondently quieter ammo

I am a reformed gang member who now visits prisions talking to the youths about gang culture I can assure you they do adapt weapons, but not in this way.

This type of gun required a close up shot. A rifled round is accurate whereas a smooth bore can go in any direction.

Her killers description was extremely nervous, & he panicked after. He ran the full length of Fulham Palce Rd into traffic and Into Bishops Park! That was her killer imo, not a man wearing a suit, or the man at the bus stop!

That description, sounds more like someone who did not mean to kill her, or a Jilted lover. Her engagement ring ( she'd just announced) was described as being on show! That could be a very important detail.

 

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[dotr]

I am a reformed gang member who now visits prisions talking to the youths about gang culture I can assure you they do adapt weapons, but not in this way.

This type of gun required a close up shot. A rifled round is accurate whereas a smooth bore can go in any direction.

Her killers description was extremely nervous, & he panicked after. He ran the full length of Fulham Palce Rd into traffic and Into Bishops Park! That was her killer imo, not a man wearing a suit, or the man at the bus stop!

That description, sounds more like someone who did not mean to kill her, or a Jilted lover. Her engagement ring ( she'd just announced) was described as being on show! That could be a very important detail.

My first thought about this murder is that somebody wanted to stop the wedding from happening. imo.

 

[SteadyEddy]

My first thought about this murder is that somebody wanted to stop the wedding from happening. imo.

I wouldn't like to speculate on the motive but there are many things that stand out to me. Including the fact her fiancé was still married ( although they were separated)

 

[Pinkizzy]

I wouldn't like to speculate on the motive but there are many things that stand out to me. Including the fact her fiancé was still married ( although they were separated)

Did the fiancée divorce his wife or did they reconcile their differences? The new divorce law was approved in 2000/2001.

 

[Pinkizzy]

I wouldn't like to speculate on the motive but there are many things that stand out to me. Including the fact her fiancé was still married ( although they were separated)

Farthing divorced his wife in 1998

 

[dotr]

2001

The private man, the TV celebrity and a whirlwind romance

The Fiance

www.independent.co.uk

''Mr Farthing, 37, related how he and the television presenter had been brought together by a mutual friend who thought they might get on. Ms Dando was single and Mr Farthing was getting over separation from his wife, Maria. He said the breakdown of his seven-year marriage had been very painful and that Ms Dando had been "supportive". They had a whirlwind relationship. "We hit it off almost immediately and very quickly fell in love," he said. Within weeks of their first dinner date, Mr Farthing invited Ms Dando to join him on holiday in Australia. Mr Farthing said she had been able to join him for only a week but, when he returned to London later, she was waiting for him at the airport.

They became inseparable. He revealed that Ms Dando spent most of her time at his home, only returning to her own house when she had an early start in the television studio or wanted to pick up her mail. One year after meeting, they became engaged.''

 

[Pinkizzy]

Her murder may have been a mistake

Jill Dando may have died by mistake after hitman shot the wrong BBC journalist

Astonishing claims in French court papers reportedly say French fashion mogul Gerald Marie hired a Russian hitman to murder BBC journalist Lisa Brinkworth after she went undercover to expose his agency

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[dotr]

Her murder may have been a mistake

Jill Dando may have died by mistake after hitman shot the wrong BBC journalist

Astonishing claims in French court papers reportedly say French fashion mogul Gerald Marie hired a Russian hitman to murder BBC journalist Lisa Brinkworth after she went undercover to expose his agency

www.mirror.co.uk

2021

Ex-BBC employee reports alleged fashion sex assault

She claims she was sexually assaulted while working to expose abuse in the fashion industry and has given a statement to French police.

www.bbc.com

''According to a report in the Guardian newspaper, the investigation is being led by a specialist child protection unit in France.
Lisa says that after a dinner with other models and Marie's business friends, she accompanied a small group, including Marie, to a club, where he pinned her down to a chair and sexually assaulted her. She said the incident was witnessed by a number of people, including her colleague Donal MacIntyre.
Afterwards, she recorded her account of the assault on camera, but did not go to the police.
"I was directed not to at the time, because it would have cut short the investigation. At that time, we were working very intensively undercover. I was working 20 hour days, I think we were exhausted. We were so focused on the story. I didn't question that wisdom. And I know now I should have done.''

''Lisa Brinkworth recorded her account of the assault on camera at the time
After the documentary aired in November 1999, Elite Models sued the BBC alleging misrepresentation.
They reached a confidential settlement which included the BBC not airing the documentary ever again. The BBC also told Lisa that the settlement agreement prevented it providing footage to her.''

 

[Markybug]

Did they actually look anything like each other at the time ?

 

[Pinkizzy]

Both had blonde hair

 

[Markybug]

D

Both had blonde hair

Different styles tho ?

Shirley a hitman wouldn’t just go on someone having blonde hair ?!

 

[JennieM]

Jill Dando: Murdered BBC presenter was ‘just in wrong place at wrong time’​

In April 1999, the BBC presenter and journalist Jill Dando was shot dead on her doorstep with a single bullet in broad daylight.

Twenty-four years on, despite one of the biggest, most high-profile murder investigations in British history, the case remains unsolved.

Now, a detailed new three-part Netflix documentary will attempt to answer the question, Who Killed Jill Dando?
The exhaustive docuseries, which builds on the shorter 2019 BBC feature, depicts the late Crimewatch and Holiday presenter as "the golden girl of British television" and "like a TV [Princess] Diana"; with thousands of mourners lining the streets of her hometown Weston-super-Mare for her funeral.

It offers detailed first-hand accounts from her family, friends and journalists - including BBC colleague Jennie Bond, who was "cold with shock" before breaking the news of her death to viewers - as well as police chiefs and lawyers who covered the case.

[…]

CCTV images showed his sister had not been followed home by anyone that day, he notes, and she was, by then, spending very little time at her own place having moved in with her fiancé Alan Farthing. So how could anyone have known she going to arrive there at that time?

Mr Dando tells BBC News: "My theory, which I had before this documentary and more so since I've seen a greater insight into the police investigation, is that it was just someone who was in that street who may or may not have known that she lived there, who was armed at the time, who may have recognised her, who perhaps thought he or she could get five minutes of notoriety by shooting her."

He continues: "And that is my view as to what happened, no matter how odd and strange people may think that is, it's certainly one of the theories that's abounded; that Jill was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

[…]

Whoever killed Jill Dando has quite literally got away with murder.

[…]

"And you just wonder whether it's somewhere in all those details, lying there in a file. Maybe just somebody holds a clue somewhere as to what happened that day and why it happened.

[…]

Who Killed Jill Dando? airs on Netflix from 26 September.

Jill Dando: Murdered BBC presenter was 'just in wrong place at wrong time'

The late star's brother hopes a new docuseries, Who Killed Jill Dando?, will jog somebody's memory.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Salah11]

I am going to watch the first episode tonight but I assume nothing new or it would already be in the media.

 

[Scorpiette]

I am going to watch the first episode tonight but I assume nothing new or it would already be in the media.

I've only just finished watching the first episode. I hadn't realised she had parked right outside her house and got out to enter the property.
Such a short time for someone to see her and 'act'.
Interesting.
The police seem satisfied she wasn't followed from her fiancé's home...or the shopping Mall etc.
They said the only known person to know that Jill would be at her house on that day was her agent, JR, as he was going to send her some faxes.
In the 1st episode JR said the only way he could have killed her was by using a hitman.
A crazy thought occurred to me, was BG hired as a hitman?! So technically he killed her but was hired by someone to do it?
I don't actually think this to be the case, but I'm just putting it out there. Has this been considered at all?
JMO.

 

[JennieM]

Do we know who was calling her at 11:31?