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Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the

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and was the corporation's Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her television work included co-presenting the

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programme ''

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'' with

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. On the morning of 26 April 1999, Dando was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, southwest

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, prompting the biggest murder inquiry conducted by the Metropolitan Police and the country's largest criminal investigation since the hunt for the

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. A local man,

Barry George Barry Michael George (born 15 April 1960) is an Englishman who was found guilty of the murder of English television presenter Jill Dando and whose conviction was overturned on appeal. Dando's profile and popularity ensured high public interes ...

, was convicted and imprisoned for the murder, but after eight years in prison he was

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following an appeal and retrial. In 2012, the Serbian 'warlord'

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was named as a suspect in the case, although he had died in 2000. No other suspect has been charged with Dando's murder, and the case remains unsolved despite police identifying over 2,000 potential suspects.

Early life

Jill Wendy Dando was born at Ashcombe House Maternity Home in

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. She was the daughter of Jack Dando (February 1918 – February 2009) and Winifred Mary Jean Hockey (August 1928 – January 1986), who died of

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aged 57. Her only sibling, brother Nigel (born 1952), worked as a journalist for

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before retiring in 2017, having previously worked as a journalist in local newspapers since the 1970s. Dando was raised as a

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and remained a devout follower. When she was three years old, it was discovered that she had a hole in her heart and a blocked

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. She had heart surgery on 12 January 1965. Dando was educated at Worle Infant School, Greenwood Junior School, Worle Comprehensive School, and Broadoak Sixth Form Centre, where she was

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, and completed her

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. She then went on to study

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. Dando was a member of Weston-super-Mare Amateur Dramatic Society and Exeter Little Theatre Company, with whom she appeared in plays at the

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. She was a volunteer at Sunshine Hospital Radio in Weston-super-Mare in 1979.

Career

Dando's first job was as a trainee reporter for the local weekly newspaper, the ''

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'', where her father and brother worked. After five years as a print journalist, she started to work for the

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, becoming a newsreader for

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in 1985. That year, she transferred to BBC South West, where she presented a regional news magazine programme, '' Spotlight South West''. In 1987, she worked for

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, then ''BBC Spotlight'' in Plymouth. In early 1988, Dando moved from regional to national television in

to present BBC television news, specifically the short on-the-hour bulletins that aired on both

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and BBC2 from 1986 until the mid-1990s. Dando presented the BBC television programmes '' Breakfast Time'', ''

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'', the '' BBC One O'Clock News'', the '' Six O'Clock News'', the travel programme '' Holiday'', the crime appeal series ''

'' (from 1995 until her death) and occasionally '' Songs of Praise''. In 1994, she moved to Fulham. On 25 April 1999, Dando presented the first episode of ''Antiques Inspectors''. She was scheduled to present the ''Six O'Clock News'' on the evening of the following day. She was featured on the cover of that week's '' Radio Times'' magazine (from 24 to 30 April). Dando was also booked to host the

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, alongside

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, at

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on 9 May. On 5 September, BBC One resumed airing of ''Antiques Inspectors'', the final series to be recorded by Dando. The series had made its debut on 25 April, with filming of the final episode completed two days before that. The programme was subsequently cancelled following her death, but it was decided later in the year that it should be aired as a tribute to the presenter. The final episode aired on 24 October. At the time of her death, Dando was among those with the highest profile of the BBC's on-screen staff, and had been the 1997 BBC Personality of the Year. ''Crimewatch'' reconstructed her murder in an attempt to aid the police in the search for her killer. After

was charged with the murder but acquittal, acquitted, ''Crimewatch'' made no further appeals for information concerning the case.

Personal life

From 1989 to 1996, Dando dated BBC executive Bob Wheaton. She then had a brief relationship with national park warden Simon Basil. In December 1997, Dando met gynaecologist

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on a

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set up by a mutual friend. Farthing was separated from his wife at the time. A couple of months after Farthing's divorce was finalised, the couple announced that they were engaged on 31 January 1999. Their wedding was set to take place on 25 September.

Murder

On the morning of 26 April 1999, 37-year-old Dando left Farthing's home in Chiswick. She returned alone, by car, to the house she owned in Fulham. She had lived in the house, but by April 1999 was in the process of selling it and did not visit it frequently. As Dando reached her front door at about 11:32, she was shot once in the head. Her body was discovered about fourteen minutes later by neighbour Helen Doble. Police were called at 11:47. Dando was taken to the nearby

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where she was declared

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at 13:03 BST. Forensic study indicated that Dando had been shot by a bullet from a 9mm Short

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semi-automatic pistol, with the gun pressed against her head at the moment of the shot. The cartridge appeared to have been subject to workshop modification, possibly to reduce its charge. Richard Hughes, her next door neighbour, heard a scream from Dando ("I thought it was someone surprising somebody") but heard no gunshot. Hughes looked out of his front window and, while not realising what had happened, made the only certain sighting of the killer—a six-foot-tall (183 cm) white man aged around 40, walking away from Dando's house.

Investigation

After the murder, there was intense media coverage. An investigation by the Metropolitan Police, named Operation Oxborough, proved fruitless for over a year. Dando's status as a well-known public figure had brought her into contact with thousands of people, and she was known to millions. There was huge speculation regarding the motive for her murder. Within six months, the Murder Investigation Team had spoken to more than 2,500 people and taken more than 1,000 statements. With little progress after a year, the police concentrated their attention on Barry George, who lived about half a mile from Dando's house. He had a history of

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women,

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s and other

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and

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behaviour. George was put under surveillance, arrested on 25 May 2000 and charged with Dando's murder on 28 May. George was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted, and on 2 July 2001 was sentenced to life imprisonment. Concern about this conviction was widespread on the basis that the case against George appeared thin. Two appeals were unsuccessful, but after discredited forensics evidence was excluded from the

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's case, George's third appeal succeeded in November 2007. The original conviction was quashed and a second trial lasting eight weeks ended in George's acquittal on 1 August 2008. After George's acquittal, some newspapers published articles which appeared to suggest that he was guilty of the Dando murder and other offences against women. In December 2009, George accepted substantial damages from News Group Newspapers over articles in '' The Sun'' and the '' News of the World'', following a libel action in the High Court.

Lines of inquiry

Lines of inquiry explored in the police investigation included: * Theories that a jealous ex-boyfriend or an unknown lover had killed Dando. This was quickly ruled out by the detectives who interviewed all Dando's friends and acquaintances and checked her phone calls. * A belief that somebody had hired an

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to murder Dando as revenge for their being convicted as a result of evidence garnered by ''Crimewatch'' viewers. After exhaustive inquiries this was also ruled out by detectives. * Various theories relating to Bosnian-Serb or Yugoslav groups in retaliation for NATO actions against media outlets and her appeals for aid during the

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. * The possibility that a deranged fan may have killed Dando after she had rejected his approaches. Dando's brother, Nigel, informed detectives that she had become concerned by “some guy pestering her” in the few days before her death, but this was ruled out by detectives. * A case of

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. This was judged unlikely, given that the killing took place on the doorstep of Dando's own home. * Following the

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a claim was made that Dando had investigated a

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ring at the BBC during the mid-1990s and had handed a dossier containing her findings to BBC management, purportedly prompting a revenge attack. The BBC said it had seen no evidence to support the claim. * Actions taken by a professional rival or business partner also had to be considered. Her agent Jon Roseman stated that he had been interviewed as a suspect by police. The original police investigation had explored the possibility of a contract killing, but since Dando was living with her fiancé and was only rarely visiting her Fulham residence, it was considered unlikely that a professional assassin would have been sufficiently well informed about Dando's movements to have known at what time she was going to be there. CCTV evidence of Dando's last journey (mainly security video recordings from a shopping centre in Hammersmith, which she visited on her way to Fulham) did not show any sign of her being followed. On the night of her death, Dando's BBC colleague

said on ''

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'' that retaliatory attacks by criminals against police, lawyers and judges were almost unknown in the UK. Forensic examination of the cartridge case and bullet recovered from the scene of the attack suggested that the weapon used had been the result of a workshop conversion of a replica or decommissioned gun. It was argued that a professional assassin would not use such a poor quality weapon. The police therefore soon began to favour the idea that the killing had been carried out by a crazed individual acting on an opportunist basis. This assumed

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of the perpetrator led to the focus on George.

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reviews by the police after 2008 concluded that Dando was killed by a professional assassin in a "hard contact execution". Pressing the gun against her head would have acted as a suppressor — muffling the sound of the shot and preventing the killer from being splattered with blood. In 2012 a cold case review named Serbian

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as a suspect, although by this time he had died.

Yugoslav connection

In early 1999 the UK and NATO were involved in the

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, opposing Serbia. Immediately after the Dando killing a number of telephone calls were made to the BBC and other media outlets claiming responsibility for the killing on behalf of Serb groups. These calls stated that the murder was revenge for the

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bombing campaign in Serbia, and threatened further killings. These calls were not judged wholly credible and may have been hoaxes. Nevertheless, at George's first trial, his

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barrister, Michael Mansfield, proposed that the Serbian warlord

had ordered Dando's assassination in retaliation for the NATO bombing of the RTS headquarters. Mansfield suggested that Dando's earlier presentation of an appeal for aid for

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refugees may have attracted the attention of Bosnian-Serb hardliners. Dando's appeal for aid for the Kosovar Albanian refugees had been shown on television three weeks before her murder. In 2019 it was reported that the British

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(NCIS) had given an intelligence report to the Dando murder enquiry claiming that the murder was in retaliation for the RTS bombing and Arkan had ordered the killing. The report highlighted a possible connection between the bullet used to kill Dando and bullets used in assassinations in Germany, namely handmade markings found on them. An opposition journalist,

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, was assassinated outside his home in Belgrade just a few days before Dando's murder and the method used in both cases was identical. In 2019, four men of the Serbian Secret Service were convicted of this murder. Journalist Bob Woffinden advanced the view that a Yugoslav group was behind the Dando killing and, in various newspaper articles, contested all the grounds on which the police had dismissed this possibility.

Legacy

Dando's funeral took place on 21 May 1999 at Clarence Park Baptist Church in Weston-super-Mare. She was buried next to her mother in the town's Ebdon Road Cemetery. The gross value of her estate was £1,181,207; after her debts and income tax, the value was £863,756; after inheritance tax, it was £607,000, all of which her father inherited because she died

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. Dando's co-presenter Nick Ross proposed the formation of an academic institute in her name and, together with her fiancé Alan Farthing, raised almost £1.5 million. The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science was founded at

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on 26 April 2001, the second anniversary of her murder. A memorial garden designed and realised by the BBC Television ''

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'' team in Dando's memory, using plants and colours that were special to her, is located within Grove Park, Weston-super-Mare, and was opened on 2 August 2001. The BBC set up a

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award in Dando's memory, which enables one student each year to study broadcast journalism at

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, who was then a postgraduate who had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and is now a presenter on

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, gained the first bursary award in 2000. In 2007,

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opened a new university campus on the site of the former Broadoak Sixth Form Centre where Dando studied. The sixth-form building has been dedicated to her and named the Jill Dando Centre.

References

External links

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