The
killing
of
a
popular
BBC
journalist
and
TV
presenter
has
____________________
police
and
crime
experts
for
many
years
.
One
of
the
strangest
unsolved
crimes
in
the
UK
in
recent
years
was
the
murder
of
Jill
Dando
,
a
well
-
known
and
much
-
loved
presenter
on
the
BBC
programme
Crimewatch
.
On
Crimewatch
,
major
crimes
are
reconstructed
by
actors
in
the
hope
that
members
of
the
public
will
come
forward
with
new
information
to
help
the
police
catch
the
criminals
involved
.
According
to
the
producers
of
the
show
,
about
a
third
of
its
cases
are
solved
,
half
of
which
as
a
direct
result
of
viewers'
calls
.
These
have
included
some
of
Britain's
most
notorious
crimes
,
such
as
____________________
and
murders
.
But
on
the
morning
of
26th
April
1999
Jill
Dando
herself
became
a
victim
of
a
violent
crime
.
As
she
was
about
to
open
the
front
door
of
her
house
in
West
London
she
was
shot
once
in
the
head
.
Her
body
was
discovered
about
a
quarter
of
an
hour
later
by
her
next
-
door
neighbour
.
At
first
there
was
great
media
speculation
that
the
murderer
might
have
been
a
criminal
who
had
previously
been
convicted
and
imprisoned
because
of
Jill
Dando's
investigative
work
on
Crimewatch
,
but
the
police
later
discounted
this
theory
.
In
fact
,
Crimewatch
reconstructed
the
presenter's
murder
in
an
attempt
to
aid
the
police
in
the
search
for
her
killer
,
but
a
year
later
,
despite
an
intensive
police
investigation
no
arrest
had
been
made
.
The
police
began
to
focus
their
attention
on
38
-
year
-
old
Barry
George
,
who
lived
about
half
a
mile
from
Dando's
house
.
He
had
a
history
of
____________________
women
and
other
anti
-
social
and
____________________
-
____________________
behaviour
.
George
was
put
under
police
____________________
,
and
on
25
May
2000
he
was
arrested
and
charged
with
Dando's
murder
.
He
was
tried
at
the
Old
Bailey
court
in
London
and
he
pleaded
not
guilty
to
murder
.
The
jury
reached
a
majority
____________________
-
George
was
found
guilty
and
sentenced
to
life
____________________
,
despite
the
fact
that
the
only
forensic
evidence
linking
him
to
the
crime
was
a
tiny
microscopic
particle
in
his
pocket
,
which
experts
believed
could
be
____________________
.
George
appealed
unsuccessfully
against
the
sentence
on
two
occasions
,
but
after
a
third
appeal
he
was
____________________
and
released
from
prison
,
after
serving
eight
years
of
his
life
sentence
.
Jill
Dando's
murder
remains
unsolved
.
