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-[gripping music playing]
-[phone ringing]

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[man] Your Prime Minister Blair murdered,
butchered 17 innocent young people.

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He butchered, we butchered back.
The first one you had yesterday.

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[Bob] The day after Jill was killed,

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the BBC received calls
from what would seem to be a Serb.

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As a hard news man,

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as a man who can look for a story,
as it were, in the development of things,

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it just seemed to me that it was possible
that they had somehow got to the country

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or had sleepers in the country
to punish Britain.

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[loud explosions]

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It was horrible.

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[male reporter] In a split second,
the station's main control room

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and other technical areas
were completely destroyed.

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NATO bombed the TV station in Serbia.

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[male reporter] NATO says
that the TV station

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was the hub of Serbia's war propaganda.

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[Jon] A lot of journalists were killed.

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[people clamoring]

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[Bob] People had died in that place.

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[indistinct chatter]

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The Serbs were furious about it.

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[sobbing]

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It's not impossible somebody
who is deeply aggrieved decided,

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"We would get our own back on the country
for what you as part of NATO did to ours."

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[indistinct chatter]

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Thousands of people from Kosovo
have left their homes

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and arrived on the borders
of neighboring countries.

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Jill had fronted an appeal for Kosovan
refugees and victims of the war.

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So there was a connection.

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This is a massive exodus,
around 600,000 people are on the move.

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It was a bit scary to think that

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that might have been the motive.

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That it could have been
a Serbian war lord.

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[male reporter] We know you as a killer,
Arkan, not as a peaceful politician.

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You know it's bullshit
you're talking about.

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The Yugoslav War was very bitter
and it was a very big news story.

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As the international community loses
patience with the fighting in Bosnia,

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Radovan Karadžić, the leader of…

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[Jennie] Many of us were involved in
reporting or presenting news about that.

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As the next few days went by

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and, you know,
I approached my own front door,

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you looked over your shoulder,
you were frightened,

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because if it had been
a professionally arranged killing,

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then there was reason to be scared.

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[theme music playing]

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One of Britain's most popular television
presenters has been murdered

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in what could be a professional hit.

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The tributes here on the flowers
echo the overriding reaction of shock…

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[man 1] Even the Queen has been moved
to comment, saying she is shocked…

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[man 2] Police say there are many
possible motives for the murder.

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[man 3] …responsible for
solving so many crimes

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may have created enemies in the process.

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[woman 1] The Crimewatch presenter
may have been assassinated in retaliation

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for the NATO bombings of the Belgrade…

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[man 4] Detectives confirm that Jill Dando

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had complained of being
followed by a stalker.

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[woman 2] A man who has gone
on trial in London

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had an obsession with celebrities
and was fascinated with firearms.

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[man 5] Detectives say they're not
ruling out any line of inquiry.

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Some believe the killer may have
got away with murder.

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BBC executives feel,
in the light of Jill Dando's murder,

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they can take no unnecessary risks
with the safety of their staff.

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Police investigating Monday's killing
will also treat

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the alleged Serbian connection seriously
until it is proved otherwise.

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[Hamish] The threat to the BBC
saying that was retaliation.

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We weren't able to trace that caller
because they were anonymous.

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Then the next question
is the Serbian government?

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The Serbian state?

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An individual Serb living in London
on their own who's angry?

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We then did explore, obviously,
with security services here

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for any intelligence
or information that they had.

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That's the thing with homicide
investigations where it's,

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the suspect is unknown,
you have to be cautious.

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You cannot just
jump to a conclusion and run with that.

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[pensive music playing]

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Everyone had a theory about how
she was murdered and who was responsible.

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Criminal networks. Mafia.
Russian. Jilted lovers.

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We have a good description there
of the man who was seen running away.

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[Hamish] But the reality is,
many a stranger homicide inquiry,

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the answer lies
within the first tranche of information.

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Though I feared that there was something
and we'd missed it.

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That somewhere in the beginning
there was a message

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or information which had been overlooked.

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[gripping music playing]

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In terms of actual evidence
about the case,

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we had the traffic warden's information.

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Of her attempt to issue a parking ticket
to a blue Range Rover on Gowan Avenue.

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[dispatcher talking indistinctly]

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[Hamish] We then received information
about a blue Range Rover

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seen travelling across Putney Bridge.

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[male reporter] The blue Range Rover
in this picture was seen

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speeding through red lights
away from the murder scene.

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[Hamish] The vehicle was
driving at high speed.

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At such a speed that it's leaning over,
it joins the Fulham Palace Road.

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Approaches the traffic lights,
which are now red.

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Travels through the red lights
and goes away at speed

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south on the Fulham Palace Road.

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It was then realized those two pieces
of information were linked.

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The inquiry then focused on
Range Rovers for many months

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and plotted every Range Rover
and CCTV pictures of Range Rovers

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to try and trace them down.

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But we didn't have a number.
We just had a color and a make.

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Somehow that was going to
have to be sifted down and analyzed.

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The blue Range Rover
was a key piece of evidence.

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But it's very difficult for the police
in these circumstances.

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I mean, looking for a specific
blue Range Rover in London

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would be like looking
for a needle in a haystack.

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[Hamish] I knew it was going to be
an enormous amount of work.

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Buckingham Palace has made it clear
that Princess Diana will still be invited

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to attend some state occasions,

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but the divorce settlement will inevitably
lead to a big change in her life.

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When you're doing the news, you have to be
the person that was watching,

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so they think
you're speaking just to them.

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You have been invited
into their living room.

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Jill had that skill.

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She was very, very versatile.

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And I loved that.
She managed to cross the divide.

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This is the scene
in The Mall this evening.

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Already hundreds of people
lining the route,

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prepared for a damp,
possibly showery night,

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so that they can pay their respects
tomorrow to Diana, Princess of Wales.

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I know she was happiest
when she was interviewing people.

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Not politicians, but just ordinary people.
I know she loved that.

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What did Diana mean to you?

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She was kind
and she did a lot for other people.

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[Anastasia] Some of the cleverest
journalists in the room couldn't do that.

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They didn't have what she had,
that magic touch.

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[Jon] When I took her on,
she was already incredibly well-known,

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but she needed other programs to do.

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And then along came Crimewatch.

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[Crimewatch theme music playing]

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First tonight, a reconstruction
of a truly sad…

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[Jon] Jill just jumped at the chance.

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…in which a young man became a killer.

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I didn't want her to go to the program.

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I'd said to her when she was offered it,
[inhales sharply] "Don't like it."

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Do please call if you know anything,
this man must be stopped.

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I don't want you being in a place

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where you're reporting nasty events
that happen to people.

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[Jill] It's public service
broadcasting at its best.

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Crimewatch has results.

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People might consider you to be a target

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as a result of what
the program does to criminals

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apprehended as a result of its work

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and found themselves in prison.

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I regarded that as a threat
and I said that to her.

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[foreboding music playing]

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[distant siren wailing]

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[journalist] Takes a certain
sort of person,

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brutal, sadistic psychopath

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to walk up behind a woman
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and shoot a gun into her head.

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I mean, that is not something
you do lightly. I've done horrible things.

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I've got 68 previous convictions.

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[tires screeching]

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But I couldn't do that.

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But I tried a bit of everything.

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Theft, stealing cars, selling drugs.
Whatever was criminal I would do.

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I was a dyed-in-the-wool,
24-hours-a-day criminal.

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In 1998, I was actually on remand
in Belmarsh Prison,

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uh, waiting to go up to the Old Bailey
on multiple charges of armed robbery.

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[reporter] Police have confirmed that
the BBC television presenter Jill Dando…

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[Noel] When Jill Dando was shot,

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a lot of criminals, I have to say,
at the time, they sort of went, "Yeah,"

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because Jill Dando was on Crimewatch UK,
and a lot of them had ended up in prison

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down to, you know,
stuff they had on Crimewatch.

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[Jill] An attempt to pervert the course
of justice on a major scale.

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An organized gang…

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It's quite possible that it was one
of those who actually done Jill Dando.

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I thought it was a professional.
The way it was done, it was professional.

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Because, if in the '80s and '90s,
the way every hit was carried out

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was in broad daylight out in the street.

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You want a place where people
are not expecting you to do it.

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If you're walking in your door in the day

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or you're walking down the high street,
you're not on alert.

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The chances of catching a professional
who works in that way are slim to none.

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[gripping music playing]

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[Nick Ross] Ever since Crimewatch started,
we've closed by saying,

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"Don't have nightmares, do sleep well."

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And given Jill Dando's murder,

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you might think
any reassurances sound hollow tonight.

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It was almost inevitable

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that we would do an appeal
on Crimewatch to explain the case

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and seek witnesses
and appeal for information.

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This is a somber and, for me,
a surreal Crimewatch UK.

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I remember watching
the Crimewatch on Jill's murder.

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[Nick] It's been almost unbearable
dealing with Jill's death.

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But this program was her passion.

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And now, as Jill helped others,
we hope we can do the same for her.

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Seeing Nick Ross, I was struck
by how professionally he handled it.

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[woman] Getting towards the end
of Gowan Avenue,

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on the Fulham Palace Road end,

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I was conscious that somebody
was sitting on my tail, as it were.

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[Hamish] The principle of Crimewatch…

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[woman] Hurrying me.

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…was to ask the public about evidence.

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[woman] I had got the impression there was
more than one person…

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Who owns this car? Who is this photograph?
Where is this person?

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[Hamish on TV] There were several
sightings of a blue Range Rover…

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So, we then released information
about a blue Range Rover

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and hopefully someone can
give us information.

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[Hamish on TV] Were you driving around
that area on the 26th of April?

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Ring us, tell us where you were
on that day,

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which Range Rover you were driving
and where you were.

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[Jane] Once they factored in
the blue Range Rover,

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there was talks maybe
of an accomplice who'd followed Jill.

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I do actually think the Range Rover
sort of symbolized professional hit,

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gangland, criminal world.

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More than one person escaping
from the scene fast.

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It's a free call number.

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So Nick Ross asked
if the public could help.

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Please call if you can
identify any of those…

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[Ian] Hundreds of calls are coming in.

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[man] I'm calling about
the Jill Dando murder.

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Members of the public,
other police forces.

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Basically, everyone seemed
to have information

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about a vehicle being very close
to the scene at the time of the murder.

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[man] Hi, I've got information
about Jill Dando.

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[Hamish] Seemed everybody
drove blue Range Rovers.

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[woman] I've got information about Jill…

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[Hamish] So it was a long shot.

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[gripping music playing]

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But then there was one phone call

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that was quite interesting.

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An informant says,
"I know who killed Jill Dando

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and here are the names
of the individuals."

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That particular informant
appeared plausible.

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He was known as Mr. James.

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The information
James was giving us was showing

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that the people
behind the murder of Jill Dando

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were active criminals.

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They were a higher-level drugs group.

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I and another officer
arranged to meet him.

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[suspenseful music playing]

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That conversation was covertly recorded.

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And he was questioned at length
by me to understand how it is

237
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his claim that he knew
who had killed Jill Dando could be true.

238
00:14:05,603 --> 00:14:09,803
And he gave an account
and a story of a Range Rover.

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00:14:09,883 --> 00:14:11,563
[camera shutter clicking]

240
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And the account and detail he was giving
was sufficient for us to say,

241
00:14:17,563 --> 00:14:19,923
well, we need to look
at this criminal network.

242
00:14:21,243 --> 00:14:23,083
So they were followed.

243
00:14:23,163 --> 00:14:26,403
And we used a range
of police tactics and operations

244
00:14:27,683 --> 00:14:30,083
to try to understand
where they were going,

245
00:14:30,163 --> 00:14:33,363
what they were doing, and seeking to hear
what they were saying.

246
00:14:33,443 --> 00:14:35,163
[indistinct radio chatter]

247
00:14:41,763 --> 00:14:43,363
[gripping music playing]

248
00:14:45,123 --> 00:14:49,363
[Jane] Initially we felt it was
going to be solved very quickly.

249
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And then it, just suddenly,
a whole summer went by.

250
00:14:52,483 --> 00:14:53,643
It went very quiet.

251
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[male reporter 1] The street where
Jill Dando lived and died.

252
00:14:56,683 --> 00:15:00,723
The media circus has gone,
but people are still coming to terms

253
00:15:00,803 --> 00:15:03,443
with one of the most bizarre murders
ever committed.

254
00:15:03,523 --> 00:15:06,443
The shooting of Miss Dando
remains a mystery.

255
00:15:06,523 --> 00:15:10,283
A crime many here in Britain,
where gun violence is so rare,

256
00:15:10,363 --> 00:15:12,403
still find incomprehensible.

257
00:15:12,483 --> 00:15:14,603
[male reporter 2] After a promising start,

258
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progress appears,
from the outside, to be slow.

259
00:15:17,403 --> 00:15:20,323
[male officer] If there's anything
that jogs your memory,

260
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give the number a ring.

261
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[imperceptible]

262
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The press, people like me,
we want developments.

263
00:15:28,203 --> 00:15:31,843
News executives coming to me and saying,
"Why haven't they solved this job?"

264
00:15:32,763 --> 00:15:35,563
[Hamish] We were working on
certain lines of inquiry.

265
00:15:36,963 --> 00:15:40,203
But we don't have to give
all the details all the time.

266
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It was almost like tumbleweed, nothing.

267
00:15:43,883 --> 00:15:48,683
And then we were all thinking,
well, are the police onto somebody?

268
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Is there some sort of dynamite
piece of information

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they're about to come out with
that we don't know about?

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00:15:58,243 --> 00:16:01,243
[Hamish] After many months
and much investment,

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it turned out
the informant James was lying.

272
00:16:06,363 --> 00:16:12,163
And it became clear that he was seeking
to blame others for Jill Dando's murder,

273
00:16:12,243 --> 00:16:15,283
hoping that they
would be arrested to release him

274
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from the pressure
he was under in his own drugs work.

275
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We didn't have proof

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the Range Rover
was even involved in the shooting.

277
00:16:25,443 --> 00:16:28,643
The sea around here is ideal
for snorkeling and scuba diving.

278
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But here's something which
involves neither swimming

279
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nor getting your hair wet.

280
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I'm going walking on the sea bed
with one of these.

281
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I thought it would be a sure-fire, quick
investigation and they'd find somebody. I…

282
00:16:42,523 --> 00:16:46,003
I was just left reading the papers
like everyone else.

283
00:16:46,603 --> 00:16:51,523
Thinking, "God,
she had it all ahead of her."

284
00:16:52,883 --> 00:16:54,123
Just so wasted.

285
00:16:54,203 --> 00:16:57,803
It's just, uh… wasted.

286
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[audience cheering, applauding]

287
00:17:01,083 --> 00:17:04,083
[Martyn] I think her career
was really not even halfway.

288
00:17:04,163 --> 00:17:07,123
Just, um, tragic to have that taken away

289
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so, uh, brutally, um,
and without explanation.

290
00:17:11,882 --> 00:17:14,603
-[laughing] No, I don't believe this.
-[man laughs]

291
00:17:14,683 --> 00:17:18,323
[Nigel] What you saw on the screen
was Jill in her element.

292
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Jill Dando, this is your life.

293
00:17:20,362 --> 00:17:21,763
[nostalgic music playing]

294
00:17:21,843 --> 00:17:25,523
Thoroughly enjoying herself,
uh, and just wishing

295
00:17:25,603 --> 00:17:28,402
that the members of her audience
were there with her,

296
00:17:28,483 --> 00:17:30,283
having as good a time as she was.

297
00:17:30,362 --> 00:17:32,003
[chuckles] It's cold.

298
00:17:32,882 --> 00:17:36,803
[Nigel] I hate to say this expression,
but she was the nation's sweetheart.

299
00:17:36,883 --> 00:17:41,363
I was very pleased for her
because she'd done tremendously well

300
00:17:41,443 --> 00:17:43,483
from humble beginnings.

301
00:17:43,563 --> 00:17:46,043
Who knows what would have happened?
I don't know.

302
00:17:46,123 --> 00:17:48,443
I put my absolute trust
in the police to do it.

303
00:17:48,523 --> 00:17:50,483
How else was it going to be solved?

304
00:17:51,763 --> 00:17:53,603
[gripping music playing]

305
00:17:56,763 --> 00:18:01,683
We wanted to put Jill on the front pages,
but it started to go quiet.

306
00:18:01,763 --> 00:18:05,123
The family, well, that story kept
in the newspapers,

307
00:18:05,203 --> 00:18:07,643
because as long as you keep
the story alive,

308
00:18:07,723 --> 00:18:10,723
you keep the investigation alive.

309
00:18:12,523 --> 00:18:15,523
[Nigel] I had conversations with Hamish

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who said that they were following
these lines of inquiry.

311
00:18:19,523 --> 00:18:22,443
But essentially
they were just drawing blanks.

312
00:18:24,043 --> 00:18:25,043
[indistinct chatter]

313
00:18:25,123 --> 00:18:27,963
[male reporter]
With no immediate prospect of an arrest,

314
00:18:28,043 --> 00:18:31,483
detectives are increasingly under pressure
to come up with a result.

315
00:18:31,563 --> 00:18:34,283
I couldn't understand
how there hadn't been an arrest.

316
00:18:34,363 --> 00:18:39,963
Most famous TV personality,
all the resources and no one was arrested.

317
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[Hamish] It generated thousands
of pieces of information.

318
00:18:47,643 --> 00:18:54,083
It was relentless, eliminating suspects
and closing down lines of inquiry.

319
00:18:54,763 --> 00:19:00,283
But we had not identified
all these witnesses in Gowan Avenue.

320
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Who was it they were seeing?

321
00:19:03,963 --> 00:19:08,523
The great majority of witnesses
cannot recall the human face sufficiently

322
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for an artist to then recreate that face.

323
00:19:11,643 --> 00:19:12,643
[imperceptible]

324
00:19:12,723 --> 00:19:16,083
But there were four people
from the witnesses

325
00:19:16,843 --> 00:19:18,403
who believed they could do.

326
00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:22,803
One of them had witnessed
a man in the Fulham Road…

327
00:19:25,043 --> 00:19:28,203
running across the road
and he stood at the bus stop.

328
00:19:29,803 --> 00:19:33,923
That witness was able to describe him
sufficiently for an e-fit to be drawn.

329
00:19:34,003 --> 00:19:39,123
And the e-fit was the one we produced
or showed at the press conference.

330
00:19:39,203 --> 00:19:40,803
[people chattering]

331
00:19:40,883 --> 00:19:42,803
We didn't have all the answers.

332
00:19:42,883 --> 00:19:47,323
I sensed a concern and nervousness
from everybody above me.

333
00:19:47,963 --> 00:19:52,243
And the media, swirling around
with so many ideas and thoughts.

334
00:19:53,163 --> 00:19:54,563
That had to be managed.

335
00:19:54,643 --> 00:19:57,083
-[camera shutters clicking]
-[indistinct chatter]

336
00:19:57,163 --> 00:20:00,003
[male reporter] Four days
after the murder of Jill Dando,

337
00:20:00,083 --> 00:20:02,883
the police released
this computer-generated picture

338
00:20:02,963 --> 00:20:05,723
of the man they're treating
as their number one suspect.

339
00:20:05,803 --> 00:20:08,003
He was seen by several witnesses,

340
00:20:08,083 --> 00:20:11,923
the last time standing by this
bus stop in Fulham Palace Road

341
00:20:12,003 --> 00:20:14,363
just after Jill Dando was shot.

342
00:20:14,443 --> 00:20:16,523
This was very, very significant indeed.

343
00:20:17,723 --> 00:20:21,643
We felt that the police would not be
putting out an e-fit of somebody

344
00:20:21,723 --> 00:20:25,363
they thought was only
a marginal person of interest.

345
00:20:25,443 --> 00:20:28,283
This was seen as a very significant event.

346
00:20:28,923 --> 00:20:31,163
If he is really the killer of Jill Dando…

347
00:20:31,243 --> 00:20:32,083
[clamoring]

348
00:20:32,163 --> 00:20:33,563
…we have to find this man.

349
00:20:34,563 --> 00:20:36,563
[male reporter]
At Putney Bridge tube station,

350
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security camera video
is also being examined

351
00:20:39,283 --> 00:20:41,123
in case it has captured her killer.

352
00:20:41,923 --> 00:20:44,683
A killer who, it was said,
may have been a hit man,

353
00:20:44,763 --> 00:20:46,963
but uses a bus for his getaway.

354
00:20:47,043 --> 00:20:48,363
[imperceptible]

355
00:20:48,443 --> 00:20:49,803
[Jeff] We made a lot of inquiries.

356
00:20:49,883 --> 00:20:53,883
You know, Daily Mirror reporters went
to the area of this bus stop,

357
00:20:53,963 --> 00:20:57,563
knocked on doors, tried to find anybody
who might have seen anything.

358
00:20:58,083 --> 00:21:01,443
But nobody that we found had seen
anybody who looked like this e-fit

359
00:21:01,523 --> 00:21:04,643
and certainly nobody came forward
to us to tell us,

360
00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:07,883
you know, any follow-up information
that might be significant.

361
00:21:07,963 --> 00:21:10,203
[camera shutters clicking]

362
00:21:10,283 --> 00:21:11,763
My next logical thought was,

363
00:21:11,843 --> 00:21:15,483
well, you know, most London buses have,
you know, CCTV on board.

364
00:21:15,563 --> 00:21:17,123
That'll be key for the police.

365
00:21:17,843 --> 00:21:21,003
All they've got to do
is contact London Transport,

366
00:21:21,083 --> 00:21:23,523
find out all the buses
that were within one hour

367
00:21:23,603 --> 00:21:25,603
each side of that sighting of that man,

368
00:21:25,683 --> 00:21:29,283
and there you are, you should have
your sweating man at the bus stop.

369
00:21:32,803 --> 00:21:34,563
[suspenseful music playing]

370
00:21:35,083 --> 00:21:38,243
[Hamish] I sent officers to Fulham
to see if there was any CCTV.

371
00:21:41,643 --> 00:21:44,923
You know, maybe they were overwhelmed
with more pressing tasks,

372
00:21:45,003 --> 00:21:49,723
but by the time they put that request in
to view the tapes, they were wiped.

373
00:21:51,603 --> 00:21:53,083
It was a missed opportunity.

374
00:21:53,163 --> 00:21:55,163
[tense music playing]

375
00:21:59,443 --> 00:22:02,243
[Hamish] There were only 16 detectives
on my murder team

376
00:22:02,323 --> 00:22:04,163
at the start of that investigation.

377
00:22:04,723 --> 00:22:08,683
Sixteen people were never going
to complete what I needed completing.

378
00:22:16,083 --> 00:22:21,403
By putting out the e-fit, we told
millions and millions of people

379
00:22:21,483 --> 00:22:25,323
about a man at a bus stop,
hoping that the public could help.

380
00:22:25,403 --> 00:22:26,563
Who is this man?

381
00:22:26,643 --> 00:22:29,083
We ask if he has nothing to do
with this investigation

382
00:22:29,163 --> 00:22:30,923
to come forward and eliminate himself.

383
00:22:31,003 --> 00:22:33,043
[male reporter] The main suspect
is a white male

384
00:22:33,123 --> 00:22:35,803
wearing a dark suit
with neatly cut brown hair.

385
00:22:35,883 --> 00:22:38,323
He's between 35 and 40 years old…

386
00:22:38,403 --> 00:22:41,883
Some of this information may have
jogged someone's memory.

387
00:22:41,963 --> 00:22:44,483
If so, they should contact
the police immediately.

388
00:22:46,643 --> 00:22:48,963
[phone ringing]

389
00:22:49,043 --> 00:22:51,043
[Hamish] A man phoned the inquiry room

390
00:22:52,163 --> 00:22:54,963
and stated that he looked like the e-fit.

391
00:22:55,923 --> 00:22:59,363
He didn't say that
he was responsible for killing Jill,

392
00:22:59,443 --> 00:23:01,763
but he placed himself at the crime scene.

393
00:23:02,683 --> 00:23:05,043
So he was a person of interest.

394
00:23:12,523 --> 00:23:14,723
-Am I allowed to mention his name?
-[man] Yep.

395
00:23:14,803 --> 00:23:17,643
[Charlie] Shackleton,
he was a strange character.

396
00:23:18,163 --> 00:23:21,363
He had a blue-lighted ambulance
as his mode of transport.

397
00:23:21,443 --> 00:23:23,523
[suspenseful music playing]

398
00:23:26,803 --> 00:23:28,483
[Hamish] He was a giant of a man.

399
00:23:29,963 --> 00:23:32,643
He was an undertaker
and he drove a hearse.

400
00:23:35,283 --> 00:23:37,523
Shackleton had said
that he was in the park

401
00:23:37,603 --> 00:23:40,363
and he'd run out of the park
because he was being chased by a man,

402
00:23:40,443 --> 00:23:42,083
and he went to the bus stop.

403
00:23:45,123 --> 00:23:50,043
That was important at that stage
because we thought the sweating man,

404
00:23:50,123 --> 00:23:53,083
e-fit person was of some importance.

405
00:23:53,163 --> 00:23:55,323
So here was a man claiming to be that.

406
00:23:57,603 --> 00:24:00,203
Because he was making those claims

407
00:24:00,283 --> 00:24:03,763
and we couldn't address the problem
without interviewing him,

408
00:24:03,843 --> 00:24:08,483
he was arrested and a search
was conducted of his house.

409
00:24:11,483 --> 00:24:16,883
This arrest just looked like
a dynamite piece of development.

410
00:24:17,843 --> 00:24:21,643
We all thought, "Is this it?
Is this going to be the evidence we need?"

411
00:24:21,723 --> 00:24:23,363
[suspenseful music playing]

412
00:24:23,443 --> 00:24:25,443
[Charlie] I searched his home address.

413
00:24:26,003 --> 00:24:27,643
There was a coffin in the house.

414
00:24:30,523 --> 00:24:32,403
[Hamish] There were some photographs,

415
00:24:32,483 --> 00:24:34,243
there was a map of the Fulham area

416
00:24:34,323 --> 00:24:37,163
and some BBC material, I think a letter.

417
00:24:41,443 --> 00:24:43,003
[intriguing music playing]

418
00:24:43,083 --> 00:24:45,883
[Jane] James Shackleton
was quite a character.

419
00:24:47,723 --> 00:24:50,123
[male reporter]
The Shepherd's Bush undertaker,

420
00:24:50,203 --> 00:24:52,243
who specialized in DSS funerals…

421
00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:55,443
[James] I'm making a baby's coffin.

422
00:24:55,523 --> 00:24:58,763
In fact, I've got to make two,
one here and one there.

423
00:24:58,843 --> 00:25:04,323
He said he was in the area
collecting wood to make coffins.

424
00:25:04,403 --> 00:25:06,043
So, I mean, who does that?

425
00:25:07,643 --> 00:25:11,603
[James] They said that I had
a fascination for Jill Dando

426
00:25:11,683 --> 00:25:13,883
and I was stalking her and all that stuff.

427
00:25:13,963 --> 00:25:16,603
I said, "You're barking up
the wrong tree, mate."

428
00:25:16,683 --> 00:25:19,883
I said, "Well, I'm gay myself."
Uh, I said, "I don't, um…"

429
00:25:20,603 --> 00:25:25,003
I said, "But as for your DC,
[laughing] well, he's more my cup of tea,"

430
00:25:25,083 --> 00:25:26,203
sort of thing.

431
00:25:27,443 --> 00:25:29,363
[Jane] He was a bit of a fantasist.

432
00:25:29,443 --> 00:25:34,123
He'd sort of fashioned himself
as a member of the aristocracy,

433
00:25:34,203 --> 00:25:36,523
uh, bogusly, I might add.

434
00:25:38,203 --> 00:25:40,843
I was sweating and out of breath,
as you can imagine,

435
00:25:40,923 --> 00:25:42,843
I'd just done half a marathon.

436
00:25:42,923 --> 00:25:47,483
Mr. Shackleton was identified
as somebody who was a liar.

437
00:25:48,123 --> 00:25:52,443
Had previously thought to involve himself
in other murder investigations.

438
00:25:54,363 --> 00:25:58,323
He was bailed out of the police station
and then eliminated from the inquiry.

439
00:25:58,883 --> 00:26:02,643
Well, I can confirm that,
uh, I was certainly not the man

440
00:26:02,723 --> 00:26:05,403
responsible for Jill Dando's death.

441
00:26:05,483 --> 00:26:08,163
[on TV] I probably
do look a bit like the e-fit.

442
00:26:08,243 --> 00:26:10,203
It's dragged on a bit now, hasn't it?

443
00:26:10,283 --> 00:26:12,483
And they are grasping at straws.

444
00:26:15,603 --> 00:26:18,003
[Ian] Clearly, one of the mistakes
made in the inquiry

445
00:26:18,083 --> 00:26:21,443
was the publication of the e-fit.

446
00:26:25,843 --> 00:26:29,443
The publication of the picture led
to a lot of additional

447
00:26:29,523 --> 00:26:32,043
and, to be honest, unnecessary, work

448
00:26:32,123 --> 00:26:36,523
with people phoning in to say
that this looks like so-and-so.

449
00:26:38,643 --> 00:26:43,083
If today you google Jill Dando
e-fit suspect…

450
00:26:43,163 --> 00:26:47,563
This man is the one outside Jill Dando's
house on the mobile phone.

451
00:26:48,123 --> 00:26:52,763
…a picture will come up
of someone that was never a suspect.

452
00:26:53,923 --> 00:26:56,363
It was a poor choice to release the e-fit

453
00:26:56,443 --> 00:26:59,523
because it distracted
the inquiry for many months.

454
00:26:59,603 --> 00:27:04,683
But the media pressure was so great
that there were some from our press office

455
00:27:04,763 --> 00:27:07,523
and other senior officers and suggestions,

456
00:27:07,603 --> 00:27:10,483
just give them something,
let's put this out.

457
00:27:10,563 --> 00:27:12,723
And I think that was an error.

458
00:27:14,123 --> 00:27:17,803
My private thinking was,
we were heading in the right direction.

459
00:27:18,403 --> 00:27:22,723
Jill Dando's murder
was the work of some loner.

460
00:27:26,323 --> 00:27:32,643
[crowd] Eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.

461
00:27:32,723 --> 00:27:34,283
[crowd cheering]

462
00:27:34,363 --> 00:27:36,323
-[clock chiming]
-[firecrackers bursting]

463
00:27:37,083 --> 00:27:38,883
[Nigel] It was the dawn
of a new millennium,

464
00:27:38,963 --> 00:27:41,163
and we still had
the shadow hanging over us

465
00:27:41,243 --> 00:27:44,203
that, uh, Jill's killer still
hadn't been caught.

466
00:27:44,283 --> 00:27:48,363
And that you knew that the longer
this police inquiry went on,

467
00:27:48,443 --> 00:27:52,043
the more likely it was that whoever
killed Jill would get away with it.

468
00:27:52,123 --> 00:27:54,283
[gripping music playing]

469
00:27:56,283 --> 00:28:01,323
[Jane] The police, who desperately wanted
to solve this crime, were at a standstill.

470
00:28:02,203 --> 00:28:05,603
Many investigations take a lot
more than 12 months, two years,

471
00:28:05,683 --> 00:28:07,923
and if that's the way it is,
then that's the way it is.

472
00:28:09,003 --> 00:28:12,083
[Jane] There comes a point
in any police investigation,

473
00:28:12,163 --> 00:28:15,363
and in particularly
the case of Jill Dando,

474
00:28:15,443 --> 00:28:19,323
that a certain amount of frustration
starts to creep in.

475
00:28:19,963 --> 00:28:22,363
Already they'd looked
at Jill's personal life,

476
00:28:22,443 --> 00:28:23,963
that had been ruled out.

477
00:28:24,043 --> 00:28:26,923
They'd looked at
all the multiple sightings.

478
00:28:27,003 --> 00:28:30,323
They'd eliminated multiple Range Rovers.

479
00:28:30,403 --> 00:28:33,163
They'd spent hundreds of thousands
on surveillance,

480
00:28:33,243 --> 00:28:36,763
and the Serbian connection
seemed to have dried up.

481
00:28:36,843 --> 00:28:38,083
We were nowhere.

482
00:28:39,443 --> 00:28:42,363
[Hamish] I was thinking, "Well,
where do we go from now?"

483
00:28:43,123 --> 00:28:46,443
Well, we're gonna have to go back
to the beginning, really.

484
00:28:46,523 --> 00:28:52,443
A belief that an answer sometimes lies
in the system, but we've already missed.

485
00:28:52,523 --> 00:28:54,723
[keyboard clacking]

486
00:28:55,283 --> 00:28:59,843
It was my role to go through
all the information

487
00:28:59,923 --> 00:29:06,003
that was on the system to identify
those messages that needed a follow-up.

488
00:29:06,083 --> 00:29:08,363
[gripping music playing]

489
00:29:10,923 --> 00:29:13,523
[man] There's a man
who lives on Crookham Road.

490
00:29:13,603 --> 00:29:14,923
Quite tall, about 5'11".

491
00:29:15,923 --> 00:29:18,963
[woman] A man with mental health problems
visited our center.

492
00:29:19,043 --> 00:29:21,803
He's around 39 years old
with short dark hair.

493
00:29:21,883 --> 00:29:25,723
[Ian] There were thousands of people
who hadn't, at that time,

494
00:29:25,803 --> 00:29:28,163
been eliminated from the inquiry.

495
00:29:28,243 --> 00:29:32,083
I managed to get this down
to a few hundred.

496
00:29:33,403 --> 00:29:34,883
[man] How long did that take?

497
00:29:35,483 --> 00:29:36,723
Fucking ages.

498
00:29:36,803 --> 00:29:38,163
[chuckles] Um…

499
00:29:38,243 --> 00:29:39,283
[gripping music playing]

500
00:29:39,363 --> 00:29:41,403
[female reporter]
Despite the huge police operation,

501
00:29:41,483 --> 00:29:43,203
there's no sign of a breakthrough.

502
00:29:43,283 --> 00:29:46,003
The reward for information leading
to the murderer has now risen

503
00:29:46,083 --> 00:29:48,203
to a quarter of a million pounds.

504
00:29:50,163 --> 00:29:52,723
[Jane] It was the biggest reward
in criminal history

505
00:29:52,803 --> 00:29:54,203
in this country at the time.

506
00:29:54,283 --> 00:29:59,163
It was a huge amount of money
and if that was going to persuade anybody

507
00:29:59,243 --> 00:30:01,843
to come forward, that would have done it.

508
00:30:02,803 --> 00:30:04,963
But there were no takers.

509
00:30:05,043 --> 00:30:08,043
And I thought that was really significant.

510
00:30:08,123 --> 00:30:11,483
That the most likely explanation for this

511
00:30:11,563 --> 00:30:15,723
is only one person in the whole world
knows who did this.

512
00:30:15,803 --> 00:30:17,523
And that's the person who did it.

513
00:30:21,643 --> 00:30:26,523
There he is again, not a sound.
Just like being burgled, but in reverse.

514
00:30:26,603 --> 00:30:29,403
Jill never spoke to me
about being frightened

515
00:30:29,483 --> 00:30:31,843
or scared of anyone or anything.

516
00:30:31,923 --> 00:30:35,563
But it is part and parcel of being
a presence on television.

517
00:30:35,643 --> 00:30:39,163
A star as she was, you get
a lot of unwanted attention.

518
00:30:39,243 --> 00:30:41,803
You get strange people writing to you.

519
00:30:42,523 --> 00:30:44,443
People who are obsessed with you.

520
00:30:45,523 --> 00:30:49,043
[Bob] People, uh,
were always interested in Jill.

521
00:30:49,123 --> 00:30:51,963
There would have been a flood
of people writing. They really liked her.

522
00:30:52,043 --> 00:30:54,523
Peter, it says
you're a big fan of Jill Dando.

523
00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:56,123
-I am. She's lovely.
-She's wonderful?

524
00:30:56,203 --> 00:30:57,883
-You got any pictures of her?
-No.

525
00:30:57,963 --> 00:31:01,163
Well, let's get one right now.
Jill Dando, ladies and gentlemen.

526
00:31:01,243 --> 00:31:03,003
[audience applauding]

527
00:31:03,083 --> 00:31:05,643
[Bob] They saw her as a daughter,
but they loved her face,

528
00:31:05,723 --> 00:31:07,723
they liked the girl next door about her,

529
00:31:07,803 --> 00:31:10,483
how attractive she was,
how well she did her job.

530
00:31:10,563 --> 00:31:15,443
They wrote the most affectionate letters.
Some of them actually tried to meet her.

531
00:31:15,523 --> 00:31:19,363
Was there anybody out there who felt
that she had let them down somehow?

532
00:31:19,443 --> 00:31:21,443
Some very strange character who thought

533
00:31:21,523 --> 00:31:23,923
that she deserved
what later happened to her?

534
00:31:26,883 --> 00:31:29,843
[Hamish] Another marker
that it was the work of a loner

535
00:31:29,923 --> 00:31:31,923
was the nature of the weapon.

536
00:31:32,803 --> 00:31:37,723
[female reporter] The weapon, a 9mm pistol
similar to this one, has never been found.

537
00:31:37,803 --> 00:31:41,123
It's the brass casing from the bullet
recovered near her body

538
00:31:41,203 --> 00:31:43,963
which could hold the clue
to the killer's identity.

539
00:31:44,043 --> 00:31:46,963
Six markings have been made
by hand using one tool

540
00:31:47,043 --> 00:31:49,003
around the top of the cartridge casing.

541
00:31:49,723 --> 00:31:53,163
The gun was not actually
a substantive 9mm firearm.

542
00:31:53,923 --> 00:31:57,043
It was either a reactivated weapon
you can lay your hands on

543
00:31:57,123 --> 00:31:59,523
or a starting pistol converted.

544
00:32:01,123 --> 00:32:06,123
The casing of the bullet
had six indentations

545
00:32:06,203 --> 00:32:08,803
around the top part of the rim.

546
00:32:09,643 --> 00:32:14,843
So that was crimping to hold the bullet
in the cartridge case.

547
00:32:15,843 --> 00:32:21,203
But this was not manufactured crimping,
this was handmade.

548
00:32:21,283 --> 00:32:24,843
Each crimp mark
was of a different level of pressure.

549
00:32:26,123 --> 00:32:29,883
It had an element of homemade-ness to it.

550
00:32:29,963 --> 00:32:32,003
Does anybody recognize those markings?

551
00:32:32,083 --> 00:32:34,003
Have they handled ammunition

552
00:32:34,083 --> 00:32:36,843
before the event or after the event
with markings like that?

553
00:32:37,483 --> 00:32:40,763
[Hamish] We knew from the first day
from the nature of the injury to her head

554
00:32:40,843 --> 00:32:42,563
and the muzzle mark of the gun

555
00:32:42,643 --> 00:32:46,483
had impacted
and imprinted itself on the head

556
00:32:46,563 --> 00:32:51,163
and there was some small bruising
on her arm, her forearm, as well.

557
00:32:52,083 --> 00:32:55,563
That didn't strike me
as a quick assassination

558
00:32:55,643 --> 00:33:00,123
and tried to avoid contact,
blood transference, hair transference.

559
00:33:00,203 --> 00:33:04,683
The fact that the person
had approached Jill and touched her,

560
00:33:04,763 --> 00:33:10,163
right into her space to kill her,
didn't indicate, for me,

561
00:33:10,243 --> 00:33:12,523
that this was a professional execution.

562
00:33:12,603 --> 00:33:14,603
[gripping music playing]

563
00:33:14,683 --> 00:33:16,483
[keyboards clacking]

564
00:33:18,643 --> 00:33:22,523
[Ian] Several of the messages that came in
in the first few days of the inquiry

565
00:33:23,163 --> 00:33:26,643
now seem to relate to the same person.

566
00:33:28,483 --> 00:33:30,883
[man 1] A man came in
asking if we could verify

567
00:33:30,963 --> 00:33:32,923
that he was at a cab company yesterday.

568
00:33:33,003 --> 00:33:36,203
He specifically asked me if I could
remember what he was wearing.

569
00:33:36,283 --> 00:33:37,763
He lived in Crookham Road,

570
00:33:37,843 --> 00:33:42,163
which was a very short distance
from Gowan Avenue.

571
00:33:43,083 --> 00:33:44,803
[man 2] His name is Barry Bulsara.

572
00:33:49,483 --> 00:33:51,163
[woman] Today, he called again,

573
00:33:51,243 --> 00:33:54,043
asking for the exact time
he was there on Monday.

574
00:33:54,123 --> 00:33:56,083
He said it was for his solicitor.

575
00:33:57,563 --> 00:34:01,123
He was obviously identifying himself

576
00:34:01,203 --> 00:34:04,763
and wanting to know his alibi
for the day of the Jill Dando murder.

577
00:34:07,363 --> 00:34:11,683
We had started work
on the background to Bulsara

578
00:34:11,763 --> 00:34:15,003
and it had shown
that he had got a previous conviction.

579
00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:17,242
But that was not his real name.

580
00:34:18,443 --> 00:34:22,003
We had been trying to find him
to take a witness statement.

581
00:34:22,083 --> 00:34:26,803
Eventually, detectives went
to the unemployment benefit office.

582
00:34:26,883 --> 00:34:29,762
That's where we met him
and commenced the first interview

583
00:34:29,843 --> 00:34:31,443
and spoke with him about the matter.

584
00:34:32,483 --> 00:34:34,003
And that man was Barry George.

585
00:34:34,083 --> 00:34:35,603
[gripping music playing]

586
00:34:37,923 --> 00:34:40,083
How would I describe Barry George?

587
00:34:41,163 --> 00:34:43,563
I thought his behavior was dysfunctional.

588
00:34:44,722 --> 00:34:50,003
He was always being someone else.
He was using personas, celebrity names.

589
00:34:50,923 --> 00:34:53,403
Paul Gadd is the real name
of Gary Glitter.

590
00:34:53,483 --> 00:34:54,963
[imperceptible]

591
00:34:55,043 --> 00:34:58,163
Those names of Gadd,
Bulsara were the names

592
00:34:58,242 --> 00:35:01,363
under which Barry George
had previously been convicted

593
00:35:01,443 --> 00:35:03,003
and was known to the police.

594
00:35:07,283 --> 00:35:12,283
George had received a conviction
for attempted rape in the name of Gadd.

595
00:35:13,003 --> 00:35:16,723
And he had also received a conviction
for an indecent assault on a woman.

596
00:35:18,363 --> 00:35:23,603
I just thought it was very interesting
to have a man living so close by

597
00:35:23,683 --> 00:35:28,123
with the background that we had
started to understand about him

598
00:35:28,203 --> 00:35:33,043
being the very person who was the subject
of two, three, four phone calls

599
00:35:33,603 --> 00:35:35,643
in the first month of the murder.

600
00:35:36,243 --> 00:35:40,323
So, authority was given to put him
under full 24-hour surveillance.

601
00:35:40,403 --> 00:35:42,163
[intriguing music playing]

602
00:35:46,283 --> 00:35:48,723
He did fit that category of a loner.

603
00:35:49,803 --> 00:35:54,043
He was unemployed and he really
just wandered around.

604
00:36:00,123 --> 00:36:02,283
He spent all his day wandering the street,

605
00:36:02,363 --> 00:36:04,603
approaching people, approaching women.

606
00:36:06,083 --> 00:36:08,203
If it wasn't stalking, it was following.

607
00:36:08,283 --> 00:36:09,443
[camera shutter clicks]

608
00:36:11,483 --> 00:36:14,763
His obsessive behavior presented
as troubling features

609
00:36:14,843 --> 00:36:18,563
which I thought we needed
to… to move on very quickly.

610
00:36:19,683 --> 00:36:22,963
They authorized
a search warrant of his house

611
00:36:23,043 --> 00:36:25,643
and officers went to
the premises to search it.

612
00:36:25,723 --> 00:36:27,603
[gripping music playing]

613
00:36:32,043 --> 00:36:37,203
So myself and two officers
went to his home address,

614
00:36:37,283 --> 00:36:38,883
knocked on the door repeatedly.

615
00:36:38,963 --> 00:36:42,963
There was no answer,
so we forced the door open.

616
00:36:50,723 --> 00:36:55,083
[officer] These sacks on the left, is that
some of the detritus from his bedroom?

617
00:36:55,163 --> 00:36:56,923
[tense music playing]

618
00:37:03,763 --> 00:37:06,483
[Charlie] It smelt. It was chaotic.

619
00:37:07,363 --> 00:37:11,763
In the main bedroom,
there were black bin liners stacked up.

620
00:37:12,363 --> 00:37:15,923
Clearly the rubbish hadn't been taken out
for a very long time, if ever.

621
00:37:17,603 --> 00:37:19,043
[camera shutter clicking]

622
00:37:21,563 --> 00:37:24,363
Newspapers strewn all over the room.

623
00:37:25,003 --> 00:37:28,763
There were ants and there were all sorts
of things on the kitchen surfaces.

624
00:37:31,283 --> 00:37:34,763
There was, uh, excrement
around the flat, piles of it.

625
00:37:38,883 --> 00:37:42,083
If you put that scene in a movie,
you wouldn't believe it

626
00:37:42,163 --> 00:37:45,083
because you would think,
[scoffs] "No, this is too much."

627
00:37:45,163 --> 00:37:48,163
It… It's over exaggerated.
But it was real.

628
00:37:52,283 --> 00:37:57,403
You've got to ask, what kind of mind
is this person that lives there?

629
00:37:58,643 --> 00:37:59,843
[dog barking distantly]

630
00:38:02,403 --> 00:38:06,243
We were clearly looking for firearms.
Clothing we were looking for.

631
00:38:06,323 --> 00:38:08,683
Literature in relation to Jill Dando.

632
00:38:08,763 --> 00:38:10,723
[camera shutter clicking rapidly]

633
00:38:14,843 --> 00:38:16,723
We found a three-quarter length coat,

634
00:38:16,803 --> 00:38:20,723
which was very similar to the one
that witnesses had described.

635
00:38:22,683 --> 00:38:25,123
We found part of a gun holster.

636
00:38:25,203 --> 00:38:28,683
We found a handwritten list of firearms.

637
00:38:28,763 --> 00:38:31,563
We recovered a lot of undeveloped film.

638
00:38:32,203 --> 00:38:36,363
We found a number of magazines
relating to firearms,

639
00:38:36,443 --> 00:38:38,643
relating to martial arts.

640
00:38:39,603 --> 00:38:42,323
News media coverage of Jill Dando.

641
00:38:42,403 --> 00:38:43,963
[suspenseful music playing]

642
00:38:44,883 --> 00:38:46,243
[camera shutter clicks]

643
00:38:46,323 --> 00:38:50,803
[Hamish] It certainly presented
as very suspicious material recovered

644
00:38:50,883 --> 00:38:54,003
from a man within half a mile
of Gowan Avenue.

645
00:38:55,923 --> 00:38:59,763
But there was no material found
which was a direct link

646
00:38:59,843 --> 00:39:03,203
between George and the crime scene
or the murder of Jill Dando.

647
00:39:05,563 --> 00:39:08,763
I was really concerned that
we were going to be 100% right.

648
00:39:08,843 --> 00:39:10,363
Because whoever we arrested

649
00:39:11,163 --> 00:39:14,843
was going to be the subject
of such scrutiny and oversight.

650
00:39:14,923 --> 00:39:18,043
So I was determined that
everything we did was correct.

651
00:39:18,123 --> 00:39:22,603
It was essential to complete as much
as possible before he was arrested.

652
00:39:26,003 --> 00:39:29,363
[Charlie] During the course
of the search of Mr. George's flat,

653
00:39:30,763 --> 00:39:33,723
we recovered a lot of undeveloped film.

654
00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:38,683
I took them to our photographic branch
to be developed.

655
00:39:38,763 --> 00:39:41,043
Clearly we needed to see what was on them.

656
00:39:43,283 --> 00:39:45,603
[Hamish] I remember looking
at all these photographs.

657
00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:48,843
And when I looked there were just
hundreds of different women.

658
00:39:48,923 --> 00:39:50,323
[camera shutter clicking]

659
00:39:51,363 --> 00:39:52,923
[unsettling music playing]

660
00:39:53,003 --> 00:39:56,243
Women in the park, women in the street.

661
00:39:56,323 --> 00:39:58,843
A lot of them were photographs
of women from behind.

662
00:39:59,843 --> 00:40:01,563
Some of them were from a distance.

663
00:40:04,243 --> 00:40:07,683
One of them was also from a woman
in Gowan Avenue,

664
00:40:07,763 --> 00:40:09,603
right next door to number 29.

665
00:40:11,883 --> 00:40:16,843
And in amongst them
was a picture of Barry George

666
00:40:16,923 --> 00:40:19,363
holding a handgun and wearing a gas mask.

667
00:40:26,683 --> 00:40:30,563
That was sent back to the laboratory
for immediate analysis of it.

668
00:40:31,443 --> 00:40:33,323
And the gun expert at the laboratory,

669
00:40:34,043 --> 00:40:37,603
he told us that it appeared to be

670
00:40:37,683 --> 00:40:41,483
an 8mm Bruni firing gun.

671
00:40:42,443 --> 00:40:46,563
One of the types of firearms
that it was reported killed Jill Dando.

672
00:40:46,643 --> 00:40:49,203
[male reporter] Police know the weapon
used in the murder

673
00:40:49,283 --> 00:40:51,683
was a semi-automatic handgun
similar to this one.

674
00:40:52,443 --> 00:40:55,643
[Hamish] I declared that
George was a suspect

675
00:40:55,723 --> 00:40:57,203
for the murder of Jill Dando.

676
00:40:57,683 --> 00:41:00,963
And the date finally settled on
was on the 25th of May

677
00:41:01,043 --> 00:41:02,563
was the plan for his arrest.

678
00:41:10,163 --> 00:41:13,603
[male reporter] Police hunting the killer
of the television presenter, Jill Dando,

679
00:41:13,683 --> 00:41:16,403
have been holding a man all day
on suspicion of murder.

680
00:41:16,483 --> 00:41:20,843
He was arrested shortly after dawn.
Detectives say it's highly significant.

681
00:41:20,923 --> 00:41:23,163
-[interrogator] Did you kill Jill Dando?
-No, sir.

682
00:41:24,723 --> 00:41:25,883
[sighs]

683
00:41:27,603 --> 00:41:30,763
-[woman] A little bit of water?
-[Barry] Definitely, yeah.

684
00:41:31,963 --> 00:41:32,803
Thank you.

685
00:41:33,603 --> 00:41:35,483
[woman] So, Barry, are you all right?

686
00:41:35,563 --> 00:41:37,043
-Mm-hmm.
-Feeling okay?

687
00:41:37,723 --> 00:41:38,643
Um…

688
00:41:39,323 --> 00:41:40,763
[breathing heavily]

689
00:41:40,843 --> 00:41:42,843
[somber music playing]