Crimewatch host Jill Dando was shot in an opportunistic killing by someone who wanted 'five minutes of notoriety', her brother has claimed.
"To organise something like that, probably Jill would have had to have been followed, or someone would have had to have been in her street 24/7.“She was toing and froing between the house where she lived in Chiswick with her fiance, Alan.Barry George was sent to prison in 2001 for Jill Dando’s murder. George was wrongly convicted and was unanimously acquitted at a retrial in 2008.
George was jailed due to a particle of gunshot residue so small it was not admissible at his retrial. He lived close to Dando in Fulham.The car of murdered TV Presenter Jill Dando being taken away to the Police Forensics Laboratory.One is that she was killed on the orders of a Russian mafia don whose advances she rejected while filming a holiday programme in Cyprus, the Daily Mail reports.
At least two senior London crime families were supposedly resentful of her crusading TV role on Crimewatch.The last hours of her life remain a mystery to this day. Her neighbour Richard Hughes said he heard two bleeps from a BMW car alarm and then footsteps. He told that after 30 seconds he heard a ‘startled scream’.