On this day 25 years ago, the Crimewatch presenter was about to open the front door of her home when she was shot from behind and killed in broad daylight.
It has been 25 years since Jill Dando’s murder Jill Dando’s Crimewatch co-host says the ‘courts got it wrong’ when they let the only ever prime suspect linked to her murder walk free. On April 26, 1999, Ms Dando, 37, was about to open the front door of her home in Fulham, London, when she was shot from behind and killed in broad daylight. The murder, which left her fiancé Alan Farthing and colleagues bereft, sparked one of the biggest murder inquiries in Metropolitan Police history.
The unidentified person, known as Man X, was spotted after the shooting Man X is said to have striking similarities to assassin Milorad Ulemek He said: ‘I was locked up for eight years. I knew in my own conscience I hadn’t done any of what they said.’ Asked by the interviewer ‘Did you kill Jill Dando?’ Mr George replies: ‘Simply no. ‘It makes me angry that they’ve taken eight years of my life away. They just basically persecuted me.
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