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Metropolitan Police Re-Examine CCTV In Jill Dando Murder Case After Enhancement Technology Advances
Met Police re-examining CCTV from Jill Dando murder due to advances in enhancement technology. Footage under review includes Putney Bridge Tube station clip of an unidentified man.
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“A new probe has been launched into the unsolved murder of BBC presenter Jill Dando.”Read the original ↗
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“should not be interpreted as a significant line of inquiry nor as a new investigation being opened on this matter.”Read the original ↗
GB News frames it as a new probe, while Sky and the BBC stress it is part of ongoing reviews, not a new investigation.
CCTV Re-examined
The Metropolitan Police confirmed it will re-examine CCTV footage relating to the unsolved murder of Jill Dando, 27 years after she was shot dead with a single bullet on her doorstep in Fulham in April 1999. The Met spokesperson said recent advancements in CCTV enhancement technology had "provided investigators with the opportunity to re-examine original footage from Putney Bridge train station". The CCTV includes an unidentified man who was seen sprinting near the scene of the shooting, 20 minutes after the event, and the Met said the investigation has been "subject to numerous reviews".
The Met warned the latest review was part of "ongoing inquiries and should not be interpreted as a significant line of inquiry nor as a new investigation being opened on this matter". The BBC presenter and journalist was born in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, and worked for the BBC for 14 years, and she was 37 when she died on the doorstep of her home on Gowan Avenue.
Man X and Ulemek
The Metropolitan Police is examining CCTV taken at Putney Bridge Tube station, a mile from Jill Dando's home, showing an unidentified man known as Man X walking along the assassin's likely escape route 20 minutes after the killing. Man X is believed to resemble Milorad Ulemek, 58, a Serbian assassin and paramilitary commander serving a 40-year jail term in Serbia for war crimes. Detectives are re-examining evidence of a wanted man who matches the features of Milorad Ulemek following its three-year probe, and it described Ulemek as a former French Foreign Legionnaire nicknamed Legija.
The Metropolitan Police statement said "Recent advancements in CCTV enhancement technology have provided investigators with the opportunity to re-examine original footage from Putney Bridge train station". A key witness saw a man in a suit "running for his life" on Fulham Palace Road around the time of the shooting, and later picked out Man X in the CCTV as the person she had seen sprinting.
What the Review Means
The Metropolitan Police said the review aims to identify whether matters could be progressed with advances in technology and forensics, and it framed the CCTV re-examination as part of ongoing enquiries. The Met warned this latest review should not be interpreted as a significant line of inquiry nor as a new investigation being opened on the matter, even as investigators revisit the Putney Bridge footage. Cold-case officers spent the past ten months finding and digitising the original footage, hoping clearer images could help establish who Man X was and whether he was linked to the killing.
Barry George was convicted of Jill Dando's murder and spent eight years in jail before being acquitted at a retrial in 2008, and Dando's partner Alan Farthing and ex-partner and BBC Breakfast news editor Bob Wheaton were ruled out as suspects. A man of Serbian descent called the BBC soon after Dando's death claiming she had been executed in a revenge hit for the UK-backed Nato bombing of Serbia's state broadcaster in Belgrade.