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

[dotr]

Engagement was announced in January 1999 with wedding scheduled for September 1999 so that timeline suggests it is possible someone could not cope with her getting married and so paid to end her life.

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This is the scenario (one of them) that also comes to my mind, it doesn't necessarily have to be a matter of the heart, but maybe even something else, like control, connections or envy. speculation, imo.

 

[forensicswannabe]

Those are all very good possible theories I do think a spawned ex lover is possible given the timing in that her wedding was only a matter of months away.

 

[Kasparthecat1]

Good, lengthy article.
Bob Woffinden 6 Jul 2002

Shadow of doubt?

Last summer, when Barry George was convicted of killing Jill Dando, all other possible theories were discounted. But is one of them more credible than was originally thought? On the eve of George's appeal hearing, Bob Woffinden re-examines the evidence.

www.theguardian.com

''Two neighbours, Hughes and Geoffrey Upfill-Brown, saw the gunman making a hasty departure from the scene, although he slowed down when he realised that Upfill-Brown had noticed him. Hughes described a white, well-dressed man with dark hair and a solid build, wearing a dark, Barbour-type jacket. He thought that the man had a mobile phone. Upfill-Brown gave a similar description.''

''Apart from that invisible speck of explosives residue found on his coat, the police found no evidence that he had possessed guns or ammunition in the past 15 years. He had neither expertise in weapons, nor the resources to modify them. He had no car, no money. There was no forensic evidence found in his flat: remarkably, police found no explosives residue there, even though it was assumed that he'd gone home to change straight after the shooting. The two squads of officers, 50 in all, who surveilled his movements for more than three weeks before his arrest gleaned no evidence to assist their case. Dando's neighbours, the only two eyewitnesses, failed to pick out George in an identity parade.

Elaine Hutton and Susan Bicknell at Hammersmith & Fulham Action for Disability alerted police to George because of his strange demeanour and mental health problems when he arrived at the centre soon after the murder. Yet, unbeknown to them, the timing they gave for his arrival (around 11.50am, 20 minutes after the shooting) gave him an alibi. George would have needed at least 30 minutes to go home, change clothes and then walk to the centre:.

This is an interesting YT on all the sightings and their locations in regards to 29 Gowan Avenue:

"Trilby hat man"

Some of those locations are a little bit out of where she lived. In the area yes but if you were stalking out her location I'm not sure you'd be standing there.

Postman sighting is the most intriguing for me as that is the only time someone is seen lingering directly opposite her house and 90 minutes before the shooting.

Also one I'd forgotten about is 11.29am and a driver saying they saw someone agitated on the corner of Gowan Avenue. If that is true then I reckon that person had identified Jill turning into Gowan Avenue in her car (as you could get a good ID from that distance) and the enormity of what they were about to do a minute later had hit them. Could certainly walk down at a steady pace to her house in 30 seconds from that position aswell.

Basically the narrator on that video describes a BG type and also mentions the man was first seen that day around 7am which was said about BG in court. Did BG regularly wear hats out and about is the obvious next question especially as he was placed under surveillance for a period.

Thanks for posting that video - interesting. I can easily believe BG is cosplaying as Trilby Man.

As regards "agitated man" at 11.29 though - if this is the perp then he'd have to somehow don a coat/ hip length jacket in time to be seen by RH and GU-B leaving the scene.

Do we know how long BG was under surveillance for? All I can recall is Hamish Campbell saying that whatever was found, it wasn't particularly useful.

 

[davidt]

Thanks for posting that video - interesting. I can easily believe BG is cosplaying as Trilby Man.

As regards "agitated man" at 11.29 though - if this is the perp then he'd have to somehow don a coat/ hip length jacket in time to be seen by RH and GU-B leaving the scene.

Do we know how long BG was under surveillance for? All I can recall is Hamish Campbell saying that whatever was found, it wasn't particularly useful.

What I found interesting is presuming they are all describing the same man is some described him as very well dressed whilst a couple of others say he was wearing some of the most ill fitting clothes they'd seen. A good example of how eyewitness accounts can vary. So it raises two questions. Was this the man who killed JD and if so was it BG?

 

[kemo]

From everything I have seem and read, there are only two likely explanations for Jill Dando’s murder:

A well planned, well executed assassination OR a reckless, impulsive amateur who go very, very lucky.

Whoever killed her was there at the right time but there is no evidence that he had been waiting and watching for her. There is no way anyone would have had knowledge of arrival at that time without having penetrated her inner circle.

 

[Konstantin]

Nick Ross

www.nickross.com

This is a good read.

 

[Cherwell]

There is no way anyone would have had knowledge of arrival at that time without having penetrated her inner circle.

Or hacked her phone.

 

[Inspector Evans]

What I found interesting is presuming they are all describing the same man is some described him as very well dressed whilst a couple of others say he was wearing some of the most ill fitting clothes they'd seen. A good example of how eyewitness accounts can vary. So it raises two questions. Was this the man who killed JD and if so was it BG?

I think that might've been two individuals given the discrepancies in appearance. And one of them completely unconnected to the case. One of the eyewitnesses thought it was an estate agent which is very possible.

I would say though the Postman account should've been the most urgent to chase up in the immediate aftermath. If someone is directly opposite Jill's house 90 minutes before she is murdered on the doorstep and they're looking right at the door to see if she is in then I think that's either the perp or someone closely connected if there were two working together.

 

[Kasparthecat1]

Nick Ross

www.nickross.com

This is a good read.

Very convincing imho, and I particularly appreciate the explanation for the presence of the gunshot residue particle.