BC broadcaster Jill Dando was the sufferer of a “skilled hit”, a former profession prison has claimed in a brand new Netflix sequence on the high-profile unsolved homicide case.
The much-loved former Crimewatch presenter was shot and killed outside her home in Fulham, west London, on April 26, 1999, on the age of 37.
Who Killed Jill Dando? is to be launched on Netflix on Tuesday, September 26, and can take viewers via Dando’s life and the true crime thriller that continues to mystify specialists and the general public.
The three-part sequence is anticipated to replicate the varied theories of who could have been behind the homicide, together with convicted intercourse offender Barry George, who was initially convicted of Dando’s homicide. George was imprisoned for eight years earlier than later being acquitted and launched after a retrial.
Armed robber-turned-writer Noel ‘Razor’ Smith is interviewed within the sequence.
In response to the Mirror, which has previewed the documentary forward of its launch, Smith says: “I don’t actually wish to speak about [who carried out the murder] for my very own security.
“However there are rumours within the prison world, let’s put it that means. It’s not who you’d assume and it’s not Barry George. It was an expert hit.”
Police forensic officers at Gowan Avenue, Fulham, the place TV presenter Jill Dando was murdered
/ PA Archive/PA PhotographsRequested if he knew why Dando was killed, he says: “No. If I inform you why – you’d know who did it.”
He reportedly goes on to say: “The way in which it was accomplished was skilled. Within the 80s and 90s, the best way each hit was carried out was in broad daylight out on the street.
“You need a spot the place persons are not anticipating you to do it. The possibilities of catching an expert who works in that means are slim to none.”
Dando was one of many nation’s most recognisable faces when her homicide despatched shockwaves throughout the nation.
She had turn out to be engaged to high-profile physician Alan Farthing simply three months earlier than her loss of life. She spent most of her time at his residence in Chiswick, and was promoting her personal home in Fulham.
On the morning of April 26, 1999, she made the 15-minute drive residence in her BMW convertible, arriving at round 11.30am. Simply outdoors her entrance door her assassin pounced on her from behind and compelled her to the bottom. He held a gun to her left temple, and fired a single bullet.
Her physique was found round a quarter-of-an-hour later by a neighbour, who known as the police.
Dando was taken to hospital, the place she was pronounced lifeless.
Dando’s homicide turned the most important prison investigation of the last decade.
London’s murder squad reportedly interviewed greater than 2,500 individuals, took greater than 1,000 statements and traced greater than 1,200 vehicles.
A trailer for the brand new Netflix present options clips of George, together with one during which he says: “It makes me indignant that they’ve taken eight years of my life.”
It additionally incorporates a clip of Free Girls panellist Jane Moore saying: “To be sitting right here 24 years on and saying that we nonetheless have no idea who killed Jill Dando is mind-boggling.”
Outdoors of her work on Crimewatch, Dando was additionally seen throughout the Eighties and Nineties on BBC exhibits together with journey present Vacation and The Antiques Inspectors.
She started as a reporter at her native paper The Weston Mercury in Weston-Tremendous-Mare, Somerset, earlier than transferring to the morning programme Breakfast Time, which later turned BBC Breakfast.
The upcoming Netflix sequence will chronicle her life via a mixture of archive, new analysis and interviews.
The venture is directed by Marcus Plowright, identified for Fred And Rose West: Reopened and govt produced by Emma Cooper, who labored on The Thriller Of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes.