The detective who led the inquiry into Jill Dando’s murder has said that her case will never be solved.
Hamish Campbell told a documentary is to mark 20 years since the 37-year-olds newsreader’s shooting: “Do I think somebody will come back to court? Probably not, no.”
Mr Campbell’s team arrested Barry George in 2000, one year after Dando was killed on her doorstep in Fulham, west London. Mr George was convicted of murder and spent eight years in jail before being cleared at a retrial and released. In the second trial, the jury accepted that one particle of gunshot residue was found in the pocket of a coat police retrieved from Mr George’s house was insufficient to place him at the scene of the murder. It had been a key forensic evidence relied on by detectives.
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Ms Dando presented programmes such as the Six O’Clock News, Breakfast News, Crimewatch and Holiday. The BBC had said: “previously unseen archive and photographs” will feature in the documentary, alongside interviews with Jill’s colleagues, friends and family members.
The documentary around her case will reveal the decision-making behind the scenes of the murder inquiry. Mr Campbell told the programme that senior officers were pressing him on the likelihood of the case being resolved.
More than 2,000 people have been named as potential suspects.
The film/documentary will also show how BBC director general Tony Hall was targeted with three telephone threats in the weeks after Ms Dando’s murder.
