Met Police to re-examine CCTV in Jill Dando murder case after 27 years

New enhancement technology has prompted a fresh look at CCTV footage from 1999. The Dando murder remains one of Britain's most high-profile unsolved cases.

CCTV footage from 1999 Dando shooting reviewed with new enhancement technology

The Metropolitan Police will re-examine CCTV footage linked to the unsolved murder of BBC presenter Jill Dando, bbc.co.uk reports. Dando was shot dead with a single bullet on the doorstep of her Fulham home on Gowan Avenue in April 1999.

A Met spokesperson confirmed that advances in CCTV enhancement technology had "provided investigators with the opportunity to re-examine original footage from Putney Bridge train station". The footage includes an unidentified man seen sprinting near the scene of the shooting approximately 20 minutes after Dando was killed.

The force cautioned that the review forms 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". In the 27 years since Dando's death, the investigation has been "subject to numerous reviews" aimed at identifying whether advances in technology and forensics could progress the case.

Despite being one of the largest and most high-profile murder investigations in British history, the case has never been resolved. Dando, who was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, had worked for the BBC for 14 years and was 37 at the time of her death.

Shortly after her killing, a man of Serbian descent contacted the BBC claiming she had been executed in retaliation for the UK-backed Nato bombing of Serbia's state broadcaster in Belgrade. That line of inquiry did not result in a prosecution.

Barry George, a local man, was convicted of her murder and served eight years in prison before being acquitted at a retrial in 2008. Dando's partner Alan Farthing, her former partner and BBC Breakfast news editor Bob Wheaton, and her agent Jon Roseman — who had written a crime novel featuring a strikingly similar scenario — were all interviewed by police and subsequently ruled out as suspects.

The case was revisited in a Netflix documentary, Who Killed Jill Dando?, released in 2023.

Source: Sky News