Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

Jill Dando

64 replies

Andontothenextproblem · 28/09/2023 08:16

Has anyone watched the documentary on Instagram?

I was aware of some of the details of the case but I’d forgotten about the possible Serbian connection, DH’s creepy undertaker and also that her ex partner and manager had been considered.

If was very eerie watching the CCTV footage of her just going about her normal day with no idea of all these mundane tasks being her last.

What are peoples thought on who murdered her? I personally think it was a professional hit due to the likelihood of a silencer on the gun, the spotted Range Rover and also how accurate the shot was…

However two things don’t add up, how the person knew where she was going to be (absolutely no evidence of her being followed) and not quite a few investigators/police coming forward saying they still think it was Barry George.

I’d be really interested in anyone thoughts.

OP posts:
LakeTiticaca · 28/09/2023 08:21

Not seen the netflix doc but read a 2 part report in the mail last week.
I feel it could be connected to her Crimewatch work.
I Don't believe Barry George is guilty. It was a professional hit IMHO.

LunaNorth · 28/09/2023 08:21

The poor woman. I can’t believe they’ve never caught anyone. That alone suggests to me it was a professional hit, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why they picked on her.

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/09/2023 08:23

No, can’t really bring myself to watch things like this. Keep getting an ad for the documentary about Lin and Megan Russell too. Couldn’t bear it. Heartbreaking.

LunaNorth · 28/09/2023 08:23

Oh hell, Barry George. Well, no, I don’t think it was him. Is he still in prison for it? I had a vague memory of him winning an appeal…have I got that wrong?

DustyLee123 · 28/09/2023 08:23

It does seem like a professional hit, and so no one would suspect that she was being watched.

LakeTiticaca · 28/09/2023 08:24

LunaNorth · 28/09/2023 08:23

Oh hell, Barry George. Well, no, I don’t think it was him. Is he still in prison for it? I had a vague memory of him winning an appeal…have I got that wrong?

Yes his conviction was overturned

DivingForLove · 28/09/2023 08:26

Some of the police still think it was Barry George?! 😳

Definitely a professional hit and I don’t think they’ll ever know who or why - desperately sad.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 28/09/2023 08:28

Interesting that her co working Nick Ross still thinks it was Barry George.

Steev · 28/09/2023 08:28

I think the Serbians would have claimed it. I'm
Undecided on Barry George but think there a reasonable argument he did it having read lots of stuff over the years about him.

TibetanTerrah · 28/09/2023 08:34

What I find odd is that she wasn't followed, yet she was in the process of selling her home and rarely visited it. Whoever it was must have known she'd, somewhat randomly, be there that morning.

Lampzade · 28/09/2023 08:37

I have always believed that it was a professional hit, but I don’t necessarily think it is to do with her work on Crimewatch.
This seems more personal to me.

melmonroe · 28/09/2023 08:39

I think it was to do with the company that she kept and what she may have been investigating at the time. It was a hit.

Iheartpizza · 28/09/2023 08:41

Yeah I watched it. I think professional hit, somebody getting revenge over her involvement with crime watch maybe?

That's what the criminal guy seemed to allude to at the end.

Original poster
Andontothenextproblem · 28/09/2023 08:43

To answer a few points said….

BG is out of prison due to winning an appeal, he did however have gun power from the same kind of gun that short Jill in the pocket of a long distinctive coat that a witness remembers seeing a man in running from the road, he admitted being near the scene on the day.

There was a call made from a Serbian group saying they were responsible, and it was in response to Serb civilians being shot

OP posts:
hattie43 · 28/09/2023 08:43

I saw it but didn't think it offered anything new . I don't think the killer/s will be found unless someone makes a deathbed confession or similar , it won't be achieved through investigation. I'm not sure why Razor was interviewed .

Nousernamesleftatall · 28/09/2023 08:50

She was apparently working on exposing paedophilia within the higher echelons against the wishes of the BBC. She was about to reveal all.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 28/09/2023 09:12

Nousernamesleftatall · 28/09/2023 08:50

She was apparently working on exposing paedophilia within the higher echelons against the wishes of the BBC. She was about to reveal all.

I'm not sure about that,I doubt she would have been working on it solo so colleagues wouldn't have had knowledge of it.

TidyDancer · 28/09/2023 09:17

I do think Barry George did it but it's not difficult to see why people still have doubts. He's got a varied past.

Far more likely that the Serbian connection is correct or there's something she was investigating that someone wanted stopped.

TidyDancer · 28/09/2023 09:17

TidyDancer · 28/09/2023 09:17

I do think Barry George did it but it's not difficult to see why people still have doubts. He's got a varied past.

Far more likely that the Serbian connection is correct or there's something she was investigating that someone wanted stopped.

I meant I DON'T think he did it....

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 28/09/2023 09:18

I thought she was more of a presenter than an in depth investigator, so wouldn't have been personally responsible for any great revelations? I suppose this would have been a warning to those more deeply involved in an investigation.

I also have seen it formulated that it may have been a case of mistaken identity.

MissKittyFantastico84 · 28/09/2023 09:18

I found it odd that her fiancé at the time was barely mentioned in the doc? Do you think he point blank refused to be featured?

Not odd, as in - he did it. Just that he was barely spoken of.

I too think it was a hit. Barry George is a mentally unwell man, and clearly a creep around women - but I do think he was a scapegoat. His very low level of intelligence suggests that he wouldn't have carried out such a swift and undetected murder without evidence (or giving the game up himself).

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 28/09/2023 09:19

*speculated, not formulated!

meditrina · 28/09/2023 09:30

DivingForLove · 28/09/2023 08:26

Some of the police still think it was Barry George?! 😳

Definitely a professional hit and I don’t think they’ll ever know who or why - desperately sad.

This tends to assume she was an intended target.

It is possible that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because no-one, it seems, could have predicted she would be there that day, and I doubt murderers hang around in Fulham for days on the off chance she'll turn up. And if it was a burglary gone wrong, wouldn't there have been some sign of attempted or actual break in? (No need to shoot a returning occupant if you haven't even started to break in, is there?)

The Serbian claim sounds utterly pie in the sky - I can see why as the claim had been made it had to be investigated. But IIRC at no other stage in the conflict in FY did any of the warring factions take extra-territorial actions such as "revenge" assassinations.

DorisDill · 28/09/2023 09:32

Maybe the person who did it didn’t know for certain that she would be there that day. They could have just turned up and it was an unlucky co-incidence that she came there on that day.