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-[gripping music playing] -[phone ringing]

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

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

[Bob] The day after Jill was killed,

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

As a hard news man,

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

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

or had sleepers in the country to punish Britain.

[loud explosions]

It was horrible.

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

and other technical areas were completely destroyed.

NATO bombed the TV station in Serbia.

[male reporter] NATO says that the TV station

was the hub of Serbia's war propaganda.

[Jon] A lot of journalists were killed.

[people clamoring]

[Bob] People had died in that place.

[indistinct chatter]

The Serbs were furious about it.

[sobbing]

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

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

[indistinct chatter]

Thousands of people from Kosovo have left their homes

and arrived on the borders of neighboring countries.

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

So there was a connection.

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

It was a bit scary to think that

that might have been the motive.

That it could have been a Serbian war lord.

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

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

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

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

Radovan Karadžić, the leader of...

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

As the next few days went by

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

you looked over your shoulder, you were frightened,

because if it had been a professionally arranged killing,

then there was reason to be scared.

[theme music playing]

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

in what could be a professional hit.

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

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

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

[man 3] ...responsible for solving so many crimes

may have created enemies in the process.

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

for the NATO bombings of the Belgrade...

[man 4] Detectives confirm that Jill Dando

had complained of being followed by a stalker.

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

had an obsession with celebrities and was fascinated with firearms.

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

Some believe the killer may have got away with murder.

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

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

Police investigating Monday's killing will also treat

the alleged Serbian connection seriously until it is proved otherwise.

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

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

Then the next question is the Serbian government?

The Serbian state?

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

We then did explore, obviously, with security services here

for any intelligence or information that they had.

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

the suspect is unknown, you have to be cautious.

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

[pensive music playing]

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

Criminal networks. Mafia. Russian. Jilted lovers.

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

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

the answer lies within the first tranche of information.

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

That somewhere in the beginning there was a message

or information which had been overlooked.

[gripping music playing]

In terms of actual evidence about the case,

we had the traffic warden's information.

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

[dispatcher talking indistinctly]

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

seen travelling across Putney Bridge.

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

speeding through red lights away from the murder scene.

[Hamish] The vehicle was driving at high speed.

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

Approaches the traffic lights, which are now red.

Travels through the red lights and goes away at speed

south on the Fulham Palace Road.

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

The inquiry then focused on Range Rovers for many months

and plotted every Range Rover and CCTV pictures of Range Rovers

to try and trace them down.

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

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

The blue Range Rover was a key piece of evidence.

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

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

would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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

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

to attend some state occasions,

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

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

so they think you're speaking just to them.

You have been invited into their living room.

Jill had that skill.

She was very, very versatile.

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

This is the scene in The Mall this evening.

Already hundreds of people lining the route,

prepared for a damp, possibly showery night,

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

I know she was happiest when she was interviewing people.

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

What did Diana mean to you?

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

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

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

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

but she needed other programs to do.

And then along came Crimewatch.

[Crimewatch theme music playing]

First tonight, a reconstruction of a truly sad...

[Jon] Jill just jumped at the chance.

...in which a young man became a killer.

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

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

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

I don't want you being in a place

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

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

Crimewatch has results.

People might consider you to be a target

as a result of what the program does to criminals

apprehended as a result of its work

and found themselves in prison.

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

[foreboding music playing]

[distant siren wailing]

[journalist] Takes a certain sort of person,

brutal, sadistic psychopath

to walk up behind a woman in broad daylight

and shoot a gun into her head.

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

I've got 68 previous convictions.

[tires screeching]

But I couldn't do that.

But I tried a bit of everything.

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

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

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

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

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

[Noel] When Jill Dando was shot,

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

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

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

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

An organized gang...

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

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

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

was in broad daylight out in the street.

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

If you're walking in your door in the day

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

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

[gripping music playing]

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

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

And given Jill Dando's murder,

you might think any reassurances sound hollow tonight.

It was almost inevitable

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

and seek witnesses and appeal for information.

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

I remember watching the Crimewatch on Jill's murder.

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

But this program was her passion.

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

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

[woman] Getting towards the end of Gowan Avenue,

on the Fulham Palace Road end,

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

[Hamish] The principle of Crimewatch...

[woman] Hurrying me.

...was to ask the public about evidence.

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

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

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

So, we then released information about a blue Range Rover

and hopefully someone can give us information.

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

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

which Range Rover you were driving and where you were.

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

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

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

gangland, criminal world.

More than one person escaping from the scene fast.

It's a free call number.

So Nick Ross asked if the public could help.

Please call if you can identify any of those...

[Ian] Hundreds of calls are coming in.

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

Members of the public, other police forces.

Basically, everyone seemed to have information

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

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

[Hamish] Seemed everybody drove blue Range Rovers.

[woman] I've got information about Jill...

[Hamish] So it was a long shot.

[gripping music playing]

But then there was one phone call

that was quite interesting.

An informant says, "I know who killed Jill Dando

and here are the names of the individuals."

That particular informant appeared plausible.

He was known as Mr. James.

The information James was giving us was showing

that the people behind the murder of Jill Dando

were active criminals.

They were a higher-level drugs group.

I and another officer arranged to meet him.

[suspenseful music playing]

That conversation was covertly recorded.

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

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

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

[camera shutter clicking]

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

well, we need to look at this criminal network.

So they were followed.

And we used a range of police tactics and operations

to try to understand where they were going,

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

[indistinct radio chatter]

[gripping music playing]

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

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

It went very quiet.

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

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

with one of the most bizarre murders ever committed.

The shooting of Miss Dando remains a mystery.

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

still find incomprehensible.

[male reporter 2] After a promising start,

progress appears, from the outside, to be slow.

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

give the number a ring.

[imperceptible]

The press, people like me, we want developments.

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

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

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

It was almost like tumbleweed, nothing.

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

Is there some sort of dynamite piece of information

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

[Hamish] After many months and much investment,

it turned out the informant James was lying.

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

hoping that they would be arrested to release him

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

We didn't have proof

the Range Rover was even involved in the shooting.

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

But here's something which involves neither swimming

nor getting your hair wet.

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

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

I was just left reading the papers like everyone else.

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

Just so wasted.

It's just, uh... wasted.

[audience cheering, applauding]

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

Just, um, tragic to have that taken away

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

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

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

Jill Dando, this is your life.

[nostalgic music playing]

Thoroughly enjoying herself, uh, and just wishing

that the members of her audience were there with her,

having as good a time as she was.

[chuckles] It's cold.

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

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

from humble beginnings.

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

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

How else was it going to be solved?

[gripping music playing]

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

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

because as long as you keep the story alive,

you keep the investigation alive.

[Nigel] I had conversations with Hamish

who said that they were following these lines of inquiry.

But essentially they were just drawing blanks.

[indistinct chatter]

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

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

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

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

[Hamish] It generated thousands of pieces of information.

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

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

Who was it they were seeing?

The great majority of witnesses cannot recall the human face sufficiently

for an artist to then recreate that face.

[imperceptible]

But there were four people from the witnesses

who believed they could do.

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

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

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

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

[people chattering]

We didn't have all the answers.

I sensed a concern and nervousness from everybody above me.

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

That had to be managed.

-[camera shutters clicking] -[indistinct chatter]

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

the police released this computer-generated picture

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

He was seen by several witnesses,

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

just after Jill Dando was shot.

This was very, very significant indeed.

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

they thought was only a marginal person of interest.

This was seen as a very significant event.

If he is really the killer of Jill Dando...

[clamoring]

...we have to find this man.

[male reporter] At Putney Bridge tube station,

security camera video is also being examined

in case it has captured her killer.

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

but uses a bus for his getaway.

[imperceptible]

[Jeff] We made a lot of inquiries.

You know, Daily Mirror reporters went to the area of this bus stop,

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

But nobody that we found had seen anybody who looked like this e-fit

and certainly nobody came forward to us to tell us,

you know, any follow-up information that might be significant.

[camera shutters clicking]

My next logical thought was,

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

That'll be key for the police.

All they've got to do is contact London Transport,

find out all the buses that were within one hour

each side of that sighting of that man,

and there you are, you should have your sweating man at the bus stop.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Hamish] I sent officers to Fulham to see if there was any CCTV.

You know, maybe they were overwhelmed with more pressing tasks,

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

It was a missed opportunity.

[tense music playing]

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

at the start of that investigation.

Sixteen people were never going to complete what I needed completing.

By putting out the e-fit, we told millions and millions of people

about a man at a bus stop, hoping that the public could help.

Who is this man?

We ask if he has nothing to do with this investigation

to come forward and eliminate himself.

[male reporter] The main suspect is a white male

wearing a dark suit with neatly cut brown hair.

He's between 35 and 40 years old...

Some of this information may have jogged someone's memory.

If so, they should contact the police immediately.

[phone ringing]

[Hamish] A man phoned the inquiry room

and stated that he looked like the e-fit.

He didn't say that he was responsible for killing Jill,

but he placed himself at the crime scene.

So he was a person of interest.

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

[Charlie] Shackleton, he was a strange character.

He had a blue-lighted ambulance as his mode of transport.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Hamish] He was a giant of a man.

He was an undertaker and he drove a hearse.

Shackleton had said that he was in the park

and he'd run out of the park because he was being chased by a man,

and he went to the bus stop.

That was important at that stage because we thought the sweating man,

e-fit person was of some importance.

So here was a man claiming to be that.

Because he was making those claims

and we couldn't address the problem without interviewing him,

he was arrested and a search was conducted of his house.

This arrest just looked like a dynamite piece of development.

We all thought, "Is this it? Is this going to be the evidence we need?"

[suspenseful music playing]

[Charlie] I searched his home address.

There was a coffin in the house.

[Hamish] There were some photographs,

there was a map of the Fulham area

and some BBC material, I think a letter.

[intriguing music playing]

[Jane] James Shackleton was quite a character.

[male reporter] The Shepherd's Bush undertaker,

who specialized in DSS funerals...

[James] I'm making a baby's coffin.

In fact, I've got to make two, one here and one there.

He said he was in the area collecting wood to make coffins.

So, I mean, who does that?

[James] They said that I had a fascination for Jill Dando

and I was stalking her and all that stuff.

I said, "You're barking up the wrong tree, mate."

I said, "Well, I'm gay myself." Uh, I said, "I don't, um..."

I said, "But as for your DC, [laughing] well, he's more my cup of tea,"

sort of thing.

[Jane] He was a bit of a fantasist.

He'd sort of fashioned himself as a member of the aristocracy,

uh, bogusly, I might add.

I was sweating and out of breath, as you can imagine,

I'd just done half a marathon.

Mr. Shackleton was identified as somebody who was a liar.

Had previously thought to involve himself in other murder investigations.

He was bailed out of the police station and then eliminated from the inquiry.

Well, I can confirm that, uh, I was certainly not the man

responsible for Jill Dando's death.

[on TV] I probably do look a bit like the e-fit.

It's dragged on a bit now, hasn't it?

And they are grasping at straws.

[Ian] Clearly, one of the mistakes made in the inquiry

was the publication of the e-fit.

The publication of the picture led to a lot of additional

and, to be honest, unnecessary, work

with people phoning in to say that this looks like so-and-so.

If today you google Jill Dando e-fit suspect...

This man is the one outside Jill Dando's house on the mobile phone.

...a picture will come up of someone that was never a suspect.

It was a poor choice to release the e-fit

because it distracted the inquiry for many months.

But the media pressure was so great that there were some from our press office

and other senior officers and suggestions,

just give them something, let's put this out.

And I think that was an error.

My private thinking was, we were heading in the right direction.

Jill Dando's murder was the work of some loner.

[crowd] Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

[crowd cheering]

-[clock chiming] -[firecrackers bursting]

[Nigel] It was the dawn of a new millennium,

and we still had the shadow hanging over us

that, uh, Jill's killer still hadn't been caught.

And that you knew that the longer this police inquiry went on,

the more likely it was that whoever killed Jill would get away with it.

[gripping music playing]

[Jane] The police, who desperately wanted to solve this crime, were at a standstill.

Many investigations take a lot more than 12 months, two years,

and if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is.

[Jane] There comes a point in any police investigation,

and in particularly the case of Jill Dando,

that a certain amount of frustration starts to creep in.

Already they'd looked at Jill's personal life,

that had been ruled out.

They'd looked at all the multiple sightings.

They'd eliminated multiple Range Rovers.

They'd spent hundreds of thousands on surveillance,

and the Serbian connection seemed to have dried up.

We were nowhere.

[Hamish] I was thinking, "Well, where do we go from now?"

Well, we're gonna have to go back to the beginning, really.

A belief that an answer sometimes lies in the system, but we've already missed.

[keyboard clacking]

It was my role to go through all the information

that was on the system to identify those messages that needed a follow-up.

[gripping music playing]

[man] There's a man who lives on Crookham Road.

Quite tall, about 5'11".

[woman] A man with mental health problems visited our center.

He's around 39 years old with short dark hair.

[Ian] There were thousands of people who hadn't, at that time,

been eliminated from the inquiry.

I managed to get this down to a few hundred.

[man] How long did that take?

Fucking ages.

[chuckles] Um...

[gripping music playing]

[female reporter] Despite the huge police operation,

there's no sign of a breakthrough.

The reward for information leading to the murderer has now risen

to a quarter of a million pounds.

[Jane] It was the biggest reward in criminal history

in this country at the time.

It was a huge amount of money and if that was going to persuade anybody

to come forward, that would have done it.

But there were no takers.

And I thought that was really significant.

That the most likely explanation for this

is only one person in the whole world knows who did this.

And that's the person who did it.

There he is again, not a sound. Just like being burgled, but in reverse.

Jill never spoke to me about being frightened

or scared of anyone or anything.

But it is part and parcel of being a presence on television.

A star as she was, you get a lot of unwanted attention.

You get strange people writing to you.

People who are obsessed with you.

[Bob] People, uh, were always interested in Jill.

There would have been a flood of people writing. They really liked her.

Peter, it says you're a big fan of Jill Dando.

-I am. She's lovely. -She's wonderful?

-You got any pictures of her? -No.

Well, let's get one right now. Jill Dando, ladies and gentlemen.

[audience applauding]

[Bob] They saw her as a daughter, but they loved her face,

they liked the girl next door about her,

how attractive she was, how well she did her job.

They wrote the most affectionate letters. Some of them actually tried to meet her.

Was there anybody out there who felt that she had let them down somehow?

Some very strange character who thought

that she deserved what later happened to her?

[Hamish] Another marker that it was the work of a loner

was the nature of the weapon.

[female reporter] The weapon, a 9mm pistol similar to this one, has never been found.

It's the brass casing from the bullet recovered near her body

which could hold the clue to the killer's identity.

Six markings have been made by hand using one tool

around the top of the cartridge casing.

The gun was not actually a substantive 9mm firearm.

It was either a reactivated weapon you can lay your hands on

or a starting pistol converted.

The casing of the bullet had six indentations

around the top part of the rim.

So that was crimping to hold the bullet in the cartridge case.

But this was not manufactured crimping, this was handmade.

Each crimp mark was of a different level of pressure.

It had an element of homemade-ness to it.

Does anybody recognize those markings?

Have they handled ammunition

before the event or after the event with markings like that?

[Hamish] We knew from the first day from the nature of the injury to her head

and the muzzle mark of the gun

had impacted and imprinted itself on the head

and there was some small bruising on her arm, her forearm, as well.

That didn't strike me as a quick assassination

and tried to avoid contact, blood transference, hair transference.

The fact that the person had approached Jill and touched her,

right into her space to kill her, didn't indicate, for me,

that this was a professional execution.

[gripping music playing]

[keyboards clacking]

[Ian] Several of the messages that came in in the first few days of the inquiry

now seem to relate to the same person.

[man 1] A man came in asking if we could verify

that he was at a cab company yesterday.

He specifically asked me if I could remember what he was wearing.

He lived in Crookham Road,

which was a very short distance from Gowan Avenue.

[man 2] His name is Barry Bulsara.

[woman] Today, he called again,

asking for the exact time he was there on Monday.

He said it was for his solicitor.

He was obviously identifying himself

and wanting to know his alibi for the day of the Jill Dando murder.

We had started work on the background to Bulsara

and it had shown that he had got a previous conviction.

But that was not his real name.

We had been trying to find him to take a witness statement.

Eventually, detectives went to the unemployment benefit office.

That's where we met him and commenced the first interview

and spoke with him about the matter.

And that man was Barry George.

[gripping music playing]

How would I describe Barry George?

I thought his behavior was dysfunctional.

He was always being someone else. He was using personas, celebrity names.

Paul Gadd is the real name of Gary Glitter.

[imperceptible]

Those names of Gadd, Bulsara were the names

under which Barry George had previously been convicted

and was known to the police.

George had received a conviction for attempted rape in the name of Gadd.

And he had also received a conviction for an indecent assault on a woman.

I just thought it was very interesting to have a man living so close by

with the background that we had started to understand about him

being the very person who was the subject of two, three, four phone calls

in the first month of the murder.

So, authority was given to put him under full 24-hour surveillance.

[intriguing music playing]

He did fit that category of a loner.

He was unemployed and he really just wandered around.

He spent all his day wandering the street,

approaching people, approaching women.

If it wasn't stalking, it was following.

[camera shutter clicks]

His obsessive behavior presented as troubling features

which I thought we needed to... to move on very quickly.

They authorized a search warrant of his house

and officers went to the premises to search it.

[gripping music playing]

So myself and two officers went to his home address,

knocked on the door repeatedly.

There was no answer, so we forced the door open.

[officer] These sacks on the left, is that some of the detritus from his bedroom?

[tense music playing]

[Charlie] It smelt. It was chaotic.

In the main bedroom, there were black bin liners stacked up.

Clearly the rubbish hadn't been taken out for a very long time, if ever.

[camera shutter clicking]

Newspapers strewn all over the room.

There were ants and there were all sorts of things on the kitchen surfaces.

There was, uh, excrement around the flat, piles of it.

If you put that scene in a movie, you wouldn't believe it

because you would think, [scoffs] "No, this is too much."

It... It's over exaggerated. But it was real.

You've got to ask, what kind of mind is this person that lives there?

[dog barking distantly]

We were clearly looking for firearms. Clothing we were looking for.

Literature in relation to Jill Dando.

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We found a three-quarter length coat,

which was very similar to the one that witnesses had described.

We found part of a gun holster.

We found a handwritten list of firearms.

We recovered a lot of undeveloped film.

We found a number of magazines relating to firearms,

relating to martial arts.

News media coverage of Jill Dando.

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[Hamish] It certainly presented as very suspicious material recovered

from a man within half a mile of Gowan Avenue.

But there was no material found which was a direct link

between George and the crime scene or the murder of Jill Dando.

I was really concerned that we were going to be 100% right.

Because whoever we arrested

was going to be the subject of such scrutiny and oversight.

So I was determined that everything we did was correct.

It was essential to complete as much as possible before he was arrested.

[Charlie] During the course of the search of Mr. George's flat,

we recovered a lot of undeveloped film.

I took them to our photographic branch to be developed.

Clearly we needed to see what was on them.

[Hamish] I remember looking at all these photographs.

And when I looked there were just hundreds of different women.

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Women in the park, women in the street.

A lot of them were photographs of women from behind.

Some of them were from a distance.

One of them was also from a woman in Gowan Avenue,

right next door to number 29.

And in amongst them was a picture of Barry George

holding a handgun and wearing a gas mask.

That was sent back to the laboratory for immediate analysis of it.

And the gun expert at the laboratory,

he told us that it appeared to be

an 8mm Bruni firing gun.

One of the types of firearms that it was reported killed Jill Dando.

[male reporter] Police know the weapon used in the murder

was a semi-automatic handgun similar to this one.

[Hamish] I declared that George was a suspect

for the murder of Jill Dando.

And the date finally settled on was on the 25th of May

was the plan for his arrest.

[male reporter] Police hunting the killer of the television presenter, Jill Dando,

have been holding a man all day on suspicion of murder.

He was arrested shortly after dawn. Detectives say it's highly significant.

-[interrogator] Did you kill Jill Dando? -No, sir.

[sighs]

-[woman] A little bit of water? -[Barry] Definitely, yeah.

Thank you.

[woman] So, Barry, are you all right?

-Mm-hmm. -Feeling okay?

Um...

[breathing heavily]

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