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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
in broad daylight

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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

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

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And he gave an account
and a story of a Range Rover.

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[camera shutter clicking]

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

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well, we need to look
at this criminal network.

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So they were followed.

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And we used a range
of police tactics and operations

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to try to understand
where they were going,

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what they were doing, and seeking to hear
what they were saying.

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[indistinct radio chatter]

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[gripping music playing]

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[Jane] Initially we felt it was
going to be solved very quickly.

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

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It went very quiet.

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

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The media circus has gone,
but people are still coming to terms

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with one of the most bizarre murders
ever committed.

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The shooting of Miss Dando
remains a mystery.

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A crime many here in Britain,
where gun violence is so rare,

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still find incomprehensible.

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[male reporter 2] After a promising start,

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progress appears,
from the outside, to be slow.

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[male officer] If there's anything
that jogs your memory,

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give the number a ring.

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[imperceptible]

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The press, people like me,
we want developments.

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News executives coming to me and saying,
"Why haven't they solved this job?"

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[Hamish] We were working on
certain lines of inquiry.

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But we don't have to give
all the details all the time.

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It was almost like tumbleweed, nothing.

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And then we were all thinking,
well, are the police onto somebody?

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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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[Hamish] After many months
and much investment,

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it turned out
the informant James was lying.

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And it became clear that he was seeking
to blame others for Jill Dando's murder,

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hoping that they
would be arrested to release him

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

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We didn't have proof

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the Range Rover
was even involved in the shooting.

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The sea around here is ideal
for snorkeling and scuba diving.

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But here's something which
involves neither swimming

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nor getting your hair wet.

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

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

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I was just left reading the papers
like everyone else.

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Thinking, "God,
she had it all ahead of her."

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Just so wasted.

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It's just, uh… wasted.

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[audience cheering, applauding]

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[Martyn] I think her career
was really not even halfway.

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Just, um, tragic to have that taken away

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

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-[laughing] No, I don't believe this.
-[man laughs]

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[Nigel] What you saw on the screen
was Jill in her element.

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Jill Dando, this is your life.

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[nostalgic music playing]

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Thoroughly enjoying herself,
uh, and just wishing

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that the members of her audience
were there with her,

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having as good a time as she was.

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[chuckles] It's cold.

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[Nigel] I hate to say this expression,
but she was the nation's sweetheart.

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I was very pleased for her
because she'd done tremendously well

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from humble beginnings.

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Who knows what would have happened?
I don't know.

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I put my absolute trust
in the police to do it.

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How else was it going to be solved?

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[gripping music playing]

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We wanted to put Jill on the front pages,
but it started to go quiet.

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The family, well, that story kept
in the newspapers,

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because as long as you keep
the story alive,

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you keep the investigation alive.

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[Nigel] I had conversations with Hamish

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who said that they were following
these lines of inquiry.

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But essentially
they were just drawing blanks.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[male reporter]
With no immediate prospect of an arrest,

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detectives are increasingly under pressure
to come up with a result.

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I couldn't understand
how there hadn't been an arrest.

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Most famous TV personality,
all the resources and no one was arrested.

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[Hamish] It generated thousands
of pieces of information.

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It was relentless, eliminating suspects
and closing down lines of inquiry.

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But we had not identified
all these witnesses in Gowan Avenue.

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Who was it they were seeing?

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The great majority of witnesses
cannot recall the human face sufficiently

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for an artist to then recreate that face.

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[imperceptible]

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But there were four people
from the witnesses

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who believed they could do.

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One of them had witnessed
a man in the Fulham Road…

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running across the road
and he stood at the bus stop.

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That witness was able to describe him
sufficiently for an e-fit to be drawn.

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And the e-fit was the one we produced
or showed at the press conference.

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[people chattering]

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We didn't have all the answers.

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I sensed a concern and nervousness
from everybody above me.

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And the media, swirling around
with so many ideas and thoughts.

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That had to be managed.

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00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,040
-[camera shutters clicking]
-[indistinct chatter]

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[male reporter] Four days
after the murder of Jill Dando,

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the police released
this computer-generated picture

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of the man they're treating
as their number one suspect.

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00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,960
He was seen by several witnesses,

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the last time standing by this
bus stop in Fulham Palace Road

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just after Jill Dando was shot.

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This was very, very significant indeed.

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We felt that the police would not be
putting out an e-fit of somebody

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they thought was only
a marginal person of interest.

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This was seen as a very significant event.

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If he is really the killer of Jill Dando…

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00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,040
[clamoring]

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…we have to find this man.

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[male reporter]
At Putney Bridge tube station,

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security camera video
is also being examined

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in case it has captured her killer.

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A killer who, it was said,
may have been a hit man,

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but uses a bus for his getaway.

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[imperceptible]

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00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:49,760
[Jeff] We made a lot of inquiries.

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00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,840
You know, Daily Mirror reporters went
to the area of this bus stop,

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knocked on doors, tried to find anybody
who might have seen anything.

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00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,400
But nobody that we found had seen
anybody who looked like this e-fit

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00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,600
and certainly nobody came forward
to us to tell us,

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00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,840
you know, any follow-up information
that might be significant.

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00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,160
[camera shutters clicking]

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00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,720
My next logical thought was,

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well, you know, most London buses have,
you know, CCTV on board.

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00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,080
That'll be key for the police.

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00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,960
All they've got to do
is contact London Transport,

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find out all the buses
that were within one hour

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each side of that sighting of that man,

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00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,240
and there you are, you should have
your sweating man at the bus stop.

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00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,520
[suspenseful music playing]

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00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,200
[Hamish] I sent officers to Fulham
to see if there was any CCTV.

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00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,880
You know, maybe they were overwhelmed
with more pressing tasks,

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but by the time they put that request in
to view the tapes, they were wiped.

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It was a missed opportunity.

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00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,120
[tense music playing]

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[Hamish] There were only 16 detectives
on my murder team

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at the start of that investigation.

377
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,640
Sixteen people were never going
to complete what I needed completing.

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00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:21,360
By putting out the e-fit, we told
millions and millions of people

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00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,280
about a man at a bus stop,
hoping that the public could help.

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00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:26,520
Who is this man?

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00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,040
We ask if he has nothing to do
with this investigation

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to come forward and eliminate himself.

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00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,000
[male reporter] The main suspect
is a white male

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wearing a dark suit
with neatly cut brown hair.

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00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,280
He's between 35 and 40 years old…

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00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:41,840
Some of this information may have
jogged someone's memory.

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00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,440
If so, they should contact
the police immediately.

388
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,920
[phone ringing]

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00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000
[Hamish] A man phoned the inquiry room

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00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:54,920
and stated that he looked like the e-fit.

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00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,320
He didn't say that
he was responsible for killing Jill,

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00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,720
but he placed himself at the crime scene.

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00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,000
So he was a person of interest.

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-Am I allowed to mention his name?
-[man] Yep.

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00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,600
[Charlie] Shackleton,
he was a strange character.

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00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:21,320
He had a blue-lighted ambulance
as his mode of transport.

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00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,480
[suspenseful music playing]

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00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,440
[Hamish] He was a giant of a man.

399
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,600
He was an undertaker
and he drove a hearse.

400
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,480
Shackleton had said
that he was in the park

401
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,320
and he'd run out of the park
because he was being chased by a man,

402
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,040
and he went to the bus stop.

403
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:50,000
That was important at that stage
because we thought the sweating man,

404
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,040
e-fit person was of some importance.

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00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,280
So here was a man claiming to be that.

406
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,160
Because he was making those claims

407
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,720
and we couldn't address the problem
without interviewing him,

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00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,440
he was arrested and a search
was conducted of his house.

409
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:16,840
This arrest just looked like
a dynamite piece of development.

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00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,600
We all thought, "Is this it?
Is this going to be the evidence we need?"

411
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,320
[suspenseful music playing]

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00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,400
[Charlie] I searched his home address.

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00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,600
There was a coffin in the house.

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00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,360
[Hamish] There were some photographs,

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00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,200
there was a map of the Fulham area

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00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,120
and some BBC material, I think a letter.

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00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:42,960
[intriguing music playing]

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00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,840
[Jane] James Shackleton
was quite a character.

419
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,080
[male reporter]
The Shepherd's Bush undertaker,

420
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,200
who specialized in DSS funerals…

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00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,400
[James] I'm making a baby's coffin.

422
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,720
In fact, I've got to make two,
one here and one there.

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00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:04,280
He said he was in the area
collecting wood to make coffins.

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00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,000
So, I mean, who does that?

425
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,560
[James] They said that I had
a fascination for Jill Dando

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00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,840
and I was stalking her and all that stuff.

427
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,560
I said, "You're barking up
the wrong tree, mate."

428
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,840
I said, "Well, I'm gay myself."
Uh, I said, "I don't, um…"

429
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,960
I said, "But as for your DC,
[laughing] well, he's more my cup of tea,"

430
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,160
sort of thing.

431
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,320
[Jane] He was a bit of a fantasist.

432
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,080
He'd sort of fashioned himself
as a member of the aristocracy,

433
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,480
uh, bogusly, I might add.

434
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,800
I was sweating and out of breath,
as you can imagine,

435
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,800
I'd just done half a marathon.

436
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,440
Mr. Shackleton was identified
as somebody who was a liar.

437
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,400
Had previously thought to involve himself
in other murder investigations.

438
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,280
He was bailed out of the police station
and then eliminated from the inquiry.

439
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,600
Well, I can confirm that,
uh, I was certainly not the man

440
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,360
responsible for Jill Dando's death.

441
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,120
[on TV] I probably
do look a bit like the e-fit.

442
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,160
It's dragged on a bit now, hasn't it?

443
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,440
And they are grasping at straws.

444
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,960
[Ian] Clearly, one of the mistakes
made in the inquiry

445
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,400
was the publication of the e-fit.

446
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,400
The publication of the picture led
to a lot of additional

447
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,000
and, to be honest, unnecessary, work

448
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,480
with people phoning in to say
that this looks like so-and-so.

449
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,040
If today you google Jill Dando
e-fit suspect…

450
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:47,520
This man is the one outside Jill Dando's
house on the mobile phone.

451
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,720
…a picture will come up
of someone that was never a suspect.

452
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,320
It was a poor choice to release the e-fit

453
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,480
because it distracted
the inquiry for many months.

454
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:04,640
But the media pressure was so great
that there were some from our press office

455
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,480
and other senior officers and suggestions,

456
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,440
just give them something,
let's put this out.

457
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,680
And I think that was an error.

458
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,760
My private thinking was,
we were heading in the right direction.

459
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:22,680
Jill Dando's murder
was the work of some loner.

460
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:32,600
[crowd] Eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.

461
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,240
[crowd cheering]

462
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,280
-[clock chiming]
-[firecrackers bursting]

463
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,840
[Nigel] It was the dawn
of a new millennium,

464
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,120
and we still had
the shadow hanging over us

465
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,160
that, uh, Jill's killer still
hadn't been caught.

466
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,320
And that you knew that the longer
this police inquiry went on,

467
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,000
the more likely it was that whoever
killed Jill would get away with it.

468
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,240
[gripping music playing]

469
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:01,280
[Jane] The police, who desperately wanted
to solve this crime, were at a standstill.

470
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,560
Many investigations take a lot
more than 12 months, two years,

471
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,880
and if that's the way it is,
then that's the way it is.

472
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,040
[Jane] There comes a point
in any police investigation,

473
00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:15,320
and in particularly
the case of Jill Dando,

474
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,280
that a certain amount of frustration
starts to creep in.

475
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,320
Already they'd looked
at Jill's personal life,

476
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,920
that had been ruled out.

477
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,880
They'd looked at
all the multiple sightings.

478
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,280
They'd eliminated multiple Range Rovers.

479
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:33,120
They'd spent hundreds of thousands
on surveillance,

480
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,720
and the Serbian connection
seemed to have dried up.

481
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,040
We were nowhere.

482
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,320
[Hamish] I was thinking, "Well,
where do we go from now?"

483
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,400
Well, we're gonna have to go back
to the beginning, really.

484
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:52,400
A belief that an answer sometimes lies
in the system, but we've already missed.

485
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,680
[keyboard clacking]

486
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,800
It was my role to go through
all the information

487
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:05,960
that was on the system to identify
those messages that needed a follow-up.

488
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,320
[gripping music playing]

489
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,480
[man] There's a man
who lives on Crookham Road.

490
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,880
Quite tall, about 5'11".

491
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,920
[woman] A man with mental health problems
visited our center.

492
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,760
He's around 39 years old
with short dark hair.

493
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,680
[Ian] There were thousands of people
who hadn't, at that time,

494
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,120
been eliminated from the inquiry.

495
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,040
I managed to get this down
to a few hundred.

496
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,840
[man] How long did that take?

497
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,680
Fucking ages.

498
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,120
[chuckles] Um…

499
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,240
[gripping music playing]

500
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,360
[female reporter]
Despite the huge police operation,

501
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,160
there's no sign of a breakthrough.

502
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,960
The reward for information leading
to the murderer has now risen

503
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,160
to a quarter of a million pounds.

504
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,680
[Jane] It was the biggest reward
in criminal history

505
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,160
in this country at the time.

506
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:59,120
It was a huge amount of money
and if that was going to persuade anybody

507
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,800
to come forward, that would have done it.

508
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,920
But there were no takers.

509
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000
And I thought that was really significant.

510
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,440
That the most likely explanation for this

511
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,680
is only one person in the whole world
knows who did this.

512
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,480
And that's the person who did it.

513
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:26,480
There he is again, not a sound.
Just like being burgled, but in reverse.

514
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,360
Jill never spoke to me
about being frightened

515
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,800
or scared of anyone or anything.

516
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,520
But it is part and parcel of being
a presence on television.

517
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,120
A star as she was, you get
a lot of unwanted attention.

518
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,760
You get strange people writing to you.

519
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,400
People who are obsessed with you.

520
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,000
[Bob] People, uh,
were always interested in Jill.

521
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,920
There would have been a flood
of people writing. They really liked her.

522
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,480
Peter, it says
you're a big fan of Jill Dando.

523
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,080
-I am. She's lovely.
-She's wonderful?

524
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,840
-You got any pictures of her?
-No.

525
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,120
Well, let's get one right now.
Jill Dando, ladies and gentlemen.

526
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,960
[audience applauding]

527
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,600
[Bob] They saw her as a daughter,
but they loved her face,

528
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,680
they liked the girl next door about her,

529
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,440
how attractive she was,
how well she did her job.

530
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:15,400
They wrote the most affectionate letters.
Some of them actually tried to meet her.

531
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,320
Was there anybody out there who felt
that she had let them down somehow?

532
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,400
Some very strange character who thought

533
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,880
that she deserved
what later happened to her?

534
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,800
[Hamish] Another marker
that it was the work of a loner

535
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,880
was the nature of the weapon.

536
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,680
[female reporter] The weapon, a 9mm pistol
similar to this one, has never been found.

537
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,080
It's the brass casing from the bullet
recovered near her body

538
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,920
which could hold the clue
to the killer's identity.

539
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,920
Six markings have been made
by hand using one tool

540
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,960
around the top of the cartridge casing.

541
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,120
The gun was not actually
a substantive 9mm firearm.

542
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,000
It was either a reactivated weapon
you can lay your hands on

543
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,480
or a starting pistol converted.

544
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:06,080
The casing of the bullet
had six indentations

545
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,760
around the top part of the rim.

546
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,800
So that was crimping to hold the bullet
in the cartridge case.

547
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:21,160
But this was not manufactured crimping,
this was handmade.

548
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,800
Each crimp mark
was of a different level of pressure.

549
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,840
It had an element of homemade-ness to it.

550
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,960
Does anybody recognize those markings?

551
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,960
Have they handled ammunition

552
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,800
before the event or after the event
with markings like that?

553
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,720
[Hamish] We knew from the first day
from the nature of the injury to her head

554
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,520
and the muzzle mark of the gun

555
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,440
had impacted
and imprinted itself on the head

556
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,120
and there was some small bruising
on her arm, her forearm, as well.

557
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,520
That didn't strike me
as a quick assassination

558
00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,080
and tried to avoid contact,
blood transference, hair transference.

559
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,640
The fact that the person
had approached Jill and touched her,

560
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:10,120
right into her space to kill her,
didn't indicate, for me,

561
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,480
that this was a professional execution.

562
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,560
[gripping music playing]

563
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,440
[keyboards clacking]

564
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,480
[Ian] Several of the messages that came in
in the first few days of the inquiry

565
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,600
now seem to relate to the same person.

566
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,840
[man 1] A man came in
asking if we could verify

567
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,880
that he was at a cab company yesterday.

568
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,160
He specifically asked me if I could
remember what he was wearing.

569
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:37,720
He lived in Crookham Road,

570
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,120
which was a very short distance
from Gowan Avenue.

571
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,760
[man 2] His name is Barry Bulsara.

572
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,120
[woman] Today, he called again,

573
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,000
asking for the exact time
he was there on Monday.

574
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,040
He said it was for his solicitor.

575
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,080
He was obviously identifying himself

576
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,720
and wanting to know his alibi
for the day of the Jill Dando murder.

577
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,640
We had started work
on the background to Bulsara

578
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:14,960
and it had shown
that he had got a previous conviction.

579
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,199
But that was not his real name.

580
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,960
We had been trying to find him
to take a witness statement.

581
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,760
Eventually, detectives went
to the unemployment benefit office.

582
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,719
That's where we met him
and commenced the first interview

583
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,400
and spoke with him about the matter.

584
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:33,960
And that man was Barry George.

585
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,560
[gripping music playing]

586
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,040
How would I describe Barry George?

587
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,520
I thought his behavior was dysfunctional.

588
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:49,960
He was always being someone else.
He was using personas, celebrity names.

589
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,360
Paul Gadd is the real name
of Gary Glitter.

590
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,920
[imperceptible]

591
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,120
Those names of Gadd,
Bulsara were the names

592
00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:01,320
under which Barry George
had previously been convicted

593
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:02,960
and was known to the police.

594
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:12,240
George had received a conviction
for attempted rape in the name of Gadd.

595
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,680
And he had also received a conviction
for an indecent assault on a woman.

596
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:23,560
I just thought it was very interesting
to have a man living so close by

597
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,080
with the background that we had
started to understand about him

598
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:33,000
being the very person who was the subject
of two, three, four phone calls

599
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,600
in the first month of the murder.

600
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,280
So, authority was given to put him
under full 24-hour surveillance.

601
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,120
[intriguing music playing]

602
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,680
He did fit that category of a loner.

603
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,000
He was unemployed and he really
just wandered around.

604
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,240
He spent all his day wandering the street,

605
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,560
approaching people, approaching women.

606
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,160
If it wasn't stalking, it was following.

607
00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:09,400
[camera shutter clicks]

608
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,720
His obsessive behavior presented
as troubling features

609
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,520
which I thought we needed
to… to move on very quickly.

610
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,920
They authorized
a search warrant of his house

611
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,600
and officers went to
the premises to search it.

612
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,560
[gripping music playing]

613
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:37,160
So myself and two officers
went to his home address,

614
00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:38,840
knocked on the door repeatedly.

615
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,920
There was no answer,
so we forced the door open.

616
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,040
[officer] These sacks on the left, is that
some of the detritus from his bedroom?

617
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,880
[tense music playing]

618
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:06,440
[Charlie] It smelt. It was chaotic.

619
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,720
In the main bedroom,
there were black bin liners stacked up.

620
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,880
Clearly the rubbish hadn't been taken out
for a very long time, if ever.

621
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,000
[camera shutter clicking]

622
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,320
Newspapers strewn all over the room.

623
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,720
There were ants and there were all sorts
of things on the kitchen surfaces.

624
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:34,720
There was, uh, excrement
around the flat, piles of it.

625
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,040
If you put that scene in a movie,
you wouldn't believe it

626
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,040
because you would think,
[scoffs] "No, this is too much."

627
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,120
It… It's over exaggerated.
But it was real.

628
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:57,360
You've got to ask, what kind of mind
is this person that lives there?

629
00:37:58,600 --> 00:37:59,800
[dog barking distantly]

630
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,200
We were clearly looking for firearms.
Clothing we were looking for.

631
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,640
Literature in relation to Jill Dando.

632
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:10,680
[camera shutter clicking rapidly]

633
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,680
We found a three-quarter length coat,

634
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,680
which was very similar to the one
that witnesses had described.

635
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,080
We found part of a gun holster.

636
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,640
We found a handwritten list of firearms.

637
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,520
We recovered a lot of undeveloped film.

638
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,320
We found a number of magazines
relating to firearms,

639
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,600
relating to martial arts.

640
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,280
News media coverage of Jill Dando.

641
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:43,920
[suspenseful music playing]

642
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,200
[camera shutter clicks]

643
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,760
[Hamish] It certainly presented
as very suspicious material recovered

644
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,960
from a man within half a mile
of Gowan Avenue.

645
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,720
But there was no material found
which was a direct link

646
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,160
between George and the crime scene
or the murder of Jill Dando.

647
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,720
I was really concerned that
we were going to be 100% right.

648
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,320
Because whoever we arrested

649
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,800
was going to be the subject
of such scrutiny and oversight.

650
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,000
So I was determined that
everything we did was correct.

651
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,560
It was essential to complete as much
as possible before he was arrested.

652
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,320
[Charlie] During the course
of the search of Mr. George's flat,

653
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:33,680
we recovered a lot of undeveloped film.

654
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:38,640
I took them to our photographic branch
to be developed.

655
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:41,000
Clearly we needed to see what was on them.

656
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:45,560
[Hamish] I remember looking
at all these photographs.

657
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,800
And when I looked there were just
hundreds of different women.

658
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,280
[camera shutter clicking]

659
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,880
[unsettling music playing]

660
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,200
Women in the park, women in the street.

661
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,800
A lot of them were photographs
of women from behind.

662
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Some of them were from a distance.

663
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,640
One of them was also from a woman
in Gowan Avenue,

664
00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:09,560
right next door to number 29.

665
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:16,800
And in amongst them
was a picture of Barry George

666
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,320
holding a handgun and wearing a gas mask.

667
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,520
That was sent back to the laboratory
for immediate analysis of it.

668
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,280
And the gun expert at the laboratory,

669
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,560
he told us that it appeared to be

670
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,440
an 8mm Bruni firing gun.

671
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,520
One of the types of firearms
that it was reported killed Jill Dando.

672
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,160
[male reporter] Police know the weapon
used in the murder

673
00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:51,640
was a semi-automatic handgun
similar to this one.

674
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,600
[Hamish] I declared that
George was a suspect

675
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,160
for the murder of Jill Dando.

676
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,920
And the date finally settled on
was on the 25th of May

677
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,520
was the plan for his arrest.

678
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,560
[male reporter] Police hunting the killer
of the television presenter, Jill Dando,

679
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,360
have been holding a man all day
on suspicion of murder.

680
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,800
He was arrested shortly after dawn.
Detectives say it's highly significant.

681
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,120
-[interrogator] Did you kill Jill Dando?
-No, sir.

682
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:25,840
[sighs]

683
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,720
-[woman] A little bit of water?
-[Barry] Definitely, yeah.

684
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:32,760
Thank you.

685
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,440
[woman] So, Barry, are you all right?

686
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,000
-Mm-hmm.
-Feeling okay?

687
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:38,600
Um…

688
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,720
[breathing heavily]

689
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,800
[somber music playing]