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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:37 pm Post subject: 26Apr1999 - Jill Dando murdered on her Fulham doorstep
GANGSTERS BOASTED THEY KILLED JILL DANDO
Jill Dando - Sunday March 1, 2009
By James Murray
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/86969
A WEALTHY engineer has claimed he met a gang of contract hitmen who boasted they had assassinated Jill Dando.
Gerry Coulter, 54, said he met the men in Budapest a year after the Crimewatch presenter was killed on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, in west London, in 1999.
He claimed they contacted him after reading on the internet that he had a series of run-ins with Dorset police and were offering to shoot police officers, for a fee.
Mr Coulter said: ‘‘They said they had been given the Dando job as a contract and were bragging about how professional they had been. It is bizarre to think I could have been in the same room as the person who killed her.
“They were offering to shoot three Dorset police officers for me at £10,000 a head.
“They were using the Dando case as a way of showing what sort of service was on offer.”
The meeting took place in 2000 and he says he reported it to police at the time but does not believe it was pursued as Barry George was at that time serving a life sentence for the murder.
Mr Coulter’s claims come as Scotland Yard investigates claims that a man of Serbian descent now living in the West Midlands confessed in a pub in Belgrade in September 2001 to shooting BBC presenter Miss Dando, 37.
There is no suggestion that he is linked to the men Mr Coulter met in Hungary the year before.
Mr Coulter became a thorn in the side of Dorset police after his Jeep was stolen and he was involved in a lengthy civil dispute over ownership.
Annoyed by what he saw as bureaucracy within the force he used ‘dorsetpolice’ as a domain name for a website, which led to further legal action.
Mr Coulter, a six dan karate expert who regularly fights in Japan, said the mercenaries contacted him after reading about his dispute on the internet.
“I was concerned about them turning up on my doorstep as at the time I was married to a Japanese lady and so I took up their offer to meet in Hungary and went out there one weekend,” he said.
“I went out of curiosity and to find out who they were and why they contacted me.
“I met one of them and was taken to a flat where there were about five or six men.
“The leader said he had been a paratrooper in the Hungarian army and he was dressed in a smart suit with a black polo neck jumper. The others said they had served in the Russian army and were dressed in jeans and leather jackets.
“It was a small mercenary unit using the internet to try to find work. I could tell they were ex-soldiers looking to make money.
“The leader said they had been given a contract to shoot Miss Dando but would not say who had given the contract.
“They didn’t say if the hitman was in the room. I made it very clear I was not interested and left. I had a few calls afterwards but made it clear I was not interested and wanted them to stop contacting me.”
Misfit loner Barry George, 48, was serving life for the murder at the time but he was acquitted at an Old Bailey retrial last year after the forensic evidence was found to be flawed and suspect.
Last week a petty criminal was reported as taking a bow in a Belgrade bar after boasting of shooting Miss Dando in retaliation for Nato’s bombing of the city.
The Yard’s homicide squad are looking into this “confession”.
Commander Simon Foy, the squad’s head, said it would inappropriate to comment on whether the man would be interviewed, or on any specific lines of inquiry his team was pursuing.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:47 pm Post subject:
The Dando family are Glouestershire Freemasons BTW
Serbian hitman shot dead Jill Dando and my husband: Widow of journalist claims BBC presenter was killed for attacking Milosevic's regime just like her partner
Serbian widow claims BBC presenter was killed by same hit man who assassinated her husband
Serbian TV presenter Slavko Curuvija shot dead 15 days before Dando's death in April 1999
etc. etc.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109602/Jill-Dando-murdered-Se rbian-hitman.html
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:15 pm Post subject:
Gerry says she was killed with a rare (back then in the West) Russian Tokarev pistol which is why the ballistics were a bit awkward for the forensics people. It's worth bearing in mind that patsy Barry George was supposed to have converted a starting pistol to fire live rounds which is quite an incredile feat even for a trained engineer.
More than 13 years have passed since a young doctor called Alan Farthing found himself hurled into the spotlight as the bewildered fiancé of Jill Dando, the popular BBC TV personality.
The Crimewatch presenter had been inexplicably murdered on her own doorstep, killed with a professional-style single bullet to the head.
This week, Mr Farthing, 49, found himself in the world spotlight once again. But this time it was as the newly-pregnant Duchess of Cambridge’s gynaecologist, overseeing her treatment for acute morning sickness in London’s King Edward VII hospital.
Lost love: Alan Farthing with murdered fiancee Jill Dando
For these days Farthing holds the post of official surgeon/gynaecologist to the Queen, making him a key member of her medical household.
Quietly spoken and 'fastidiously polite', he's said to have 'the perfect bedside manner, always cautious, always in control and very charming'. Next summer, he will deliver Kate’s baby.
It has been four years since he succeeded Marcus Setchell, who held the post for 18 years, and who himself followed Sir George Pinker, the man who delivered nine royal babies including Princes William and Harry.
Farthing's appointment to this august role was announced just two weeks after Barry George, 52, a petty criminal who lived near Jill’s home in Fulham, West London, was cleared of her murder in a retrial after spending six years in prison.
George always protested his innocence and went on to win substantial damages for libel from several red-top newspapers for what they wrote about him after his arrest.
Among their claims was the story that he stalked Princess Diana and had been stopped four times in ten months for hanging around Kensington Palace in the middle of the night. It was alleged police found pictures and articles about the princess in his flat and details of her car registration numbers.
His lawyers are still fighting in the Supreme Court for compensation for wrongful imprisonment, originally set at £1.4 million but challenged by the Government.
For his part, Farthing was separated from his first wife of seven years, Maria, a hospital nurse, when he met Jill. When she was killed 19 months later, the doctor overcame his grief by ignoring friends' advice to 'take three months off' and instead plunged himself into his work, often operating late into the evening.
The result is a burgeoning private and NHS practice in London’s leading hospitals, as well as rooms in Harley Street, and the onerous responsibility of delivering the Royal Family’s babies for the next decade or two.
He has also found domestic happiness. Four years ago he married Dr Janet Stowell, 35, whom he met in 2003 when she was a young house doctor at St Mary’s, Paddington. They live in St John’s Wood, London in a detached £3 million house, and have a two-year-old son.
'Alan is incredibly contented with life - he's never been a complex man,' says a colleague. 'He loves his family, and he loves his work - it was just the same when he was with Jill, total dedication.'
There is one area, however, in which Alan Farthing can never find total peace: the fact that Jill's killer has never been found. Not only does the crime remain unsolved, but despite umpteen theories, no clear motive has ever emerged.
Farthing himself was extensively interviewed by Detective Inspector Hamish Campbell and his team as they cast round in all directions to find a motive for the killing of television’s ultimate 'girl next door'.
What they hoped to find from the handsome, despairing doctor were possible pointers to previous relationships where jealousy might have been turned into obsession by his very public engagement to Jill. His job as a gynaecologist inevitably raised further questions of potential secret passions and the unrequited love of female patients.
To Farthing, a man dedicated to bringing life into the world, the death of his famous fiancée meant he was swept up into a surreal nightmare.
Until that moment, everything about his life had been so conventional - a bright boy educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wimborne, Dorset, where his father, a former research doctor, was headmaster; qualifying as a doctor at St George’s Hospital, Tooting; having an extrovert brother, Mark, who became a nurse and paramedic and is now a manager in the West Midlands ambulance service; and poignantly, a sister, Carol, whose daughter Naomi, now 20, was so excited at the prospect of being one of Jill Dando’s bridesmaids at the wedding fixed for September 25, 1999.
Jill was the West Country girl who went to comprehensive school in Weston-super-Mare and left with two A-levels to work on a local newspaper. By the time she arrived on television, she was dazzling networks with her pulling power and entranced viewers not with professional slickness, but an engaging modesty.
She and Farthing, a year her junior, met on a blind date at a dinner party in October 1997.
'We hit it off and very quickly fell in love,' he said when giving evidence at Barry George's first trial. Sixteen months later, on January 31, 1999, at a hastily-assembled party in Chiswick, West London, Farthing hushed guests including Sir Cliff Richard, Nick Ross (Jill’s co-presenter on Crimewatch), Anna Ford and Jill’s other BBC friends including newsreaders Michael Buerk and Martyn Lewis, and announced: 'We’re engaged.'
The £20,000 diamond solitaire ring he gave Jill that night was on her finger when the killer struck three months later.
The details surrounding that devastating Monday morning have been well told. Jill had spent the weekend at Alan’s home in Chiswick, made breakfast and driven to the shops in Hammersmith to buy an ink cartridge and two Dover sole. Then she headed for her own home barely a mile away in Gowan Avenue, Fulham. It was 11.30am.
Waiting there was her killer. The shooting was swift and executed with chilling skill.
As she was about to put her key into the front door lock the gunman gripped her by an arm (bruises showed up under ultraviolet examination), forced her head down almost to the ground, and shot her through the temple with a 9mm handgun, the classic contract murder weapon.
There were various sightings of a tall, white man running away, a sweating man getting on a bus, a dark blue Range Rover hovering in the vicinity and so on.
Det Insp Hamish Campbell had 42 detectives looking for the killer and examining possible motives. One was that the killing was a vengeance attack on the BBC by Serbian terrorists in response to Nato’s attack on the Belgrade TV station.
Another was that criminals 'fingered' by Crimewatch had exacted revenge (underworld figures let it be known they were 'deeply insulted' that anyone would think they would do such a thing).
A bungling mugger or a burglar? He never snatched her valuable engagement ring, and, besides, the killing was far too expert for that.
Money? She left no will and her £1 million estate went to her elderly father.
This left detectives looking for clues from the men in her life, including the devastated Farthing, of course. Not that they were personally seen as suspects, but because of the potential for resentment and hatred that can be so easily kindled by a lost lover or broken romance.
There were five men who figured seriously in Jill Dando’s life - not an excessive number for a modern, single woman of 37.
None of these inquiries led anywhere. And then Barry George, very much a local character, was arrested after one of the biggest murder inquiries in Britain.
In court, the prosecution claimed George was obsessed with celebrities and guns and the jury heard from a series of women who claimed to have been approached by him. A tiny speck of gunpowder residue found in his pocket was central to his original conviction.
Case solved? Far from it.
For Alan Farthing, the conviction and imprisonment of George in July, 2001, and his subsequent acquittal after scientific evidence was discredited and ruled inadmissible by the judge, have all been part of the extraordinary emotional switchback he has had to endure.
An intensely private man, Farthing surprised friends by asking to be the chairman of the Jill Dando Fund, which was set up a year after her murder. It raised £1.5 million, and he stood down as soon as it was handed over to University College London, where the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science was established, and now runs, under the chairmanship of Nick Ross.
Were it not for Alan Farthing's cautious and decent nature, that sum, it is believed, could have been very much more.
'The first anniversary of its establishment,' says one involved figure, 'was a huge opportunity to raise more money and we wanted a big launch with forget-me-nots (the fund’s symbol) at check-outs of all the major supermarkets. We could have made many millions that day. But Alan was against it.
'He’s rather conservative in his ways, and he thought that sort of thing was rather unseemly.'
According to one friend, it 'took Alan a very long time after Jill's death for him to even think of seeing anyone else seriously. That’s probably why he was seeing Janet for five years before they married. They're very happy'.
Janet has introduced Farthing into a world very different from the one he got to know with Jill Dando. Her solo violinist father, Professor Robin Stowell, is an authority on ancient music.
But he's back on familiar ground with her brother David, once a professional football triallist and now a presenter on Manchester United’s own television channel MUTV.
This Christmas he will, as always, be exchanging cards with Jill Dando's brother Nigel, a presenter on BBC Radio Bristol.
'Alan would never lose touch with Jill's family,' says a close figure. 'They will always share the same frustration, not only that her killer remains at large but that they still don't know why on earth somebody would want to kill her.'
The world moves on, however.
Indeed, it offers a remarkable symmetry. The doctor whose fiancée was once believed to have been murdered by a man said to be obsessed by Princess Diana is now preparing to deliver the princess’s first grandchild.
Barry George, Jill Dando, Jimmy Savile, BBC paedophiles, Cliff Richard, Alan Farthing, Nick Ross and Britain’s dirty secrets
By thecolemanexperience July 9, 2013
We learn today that Barry George has been denied compensation for being falsely imprisoned for the murder of Jill Dando.
Despite being innocent of all charges against him, and having almost certainly been framed by the British Establishment, the Courts have refused to allow George the right to appeal against the decision in what his sister calls a “travesty of justice”.
Why on earth aren’t the powers-that-be willing to acknowledge the distress and suffering caused to Barry George by being wrongly incarcerated for 8 years?
Why aren’t they awarding him an automatic compensation offer as they have done in other cases where a miscarriage of justice has taken place?
Why are they allowing us to think he is in someway still guilty despite being clearly innocent?
Is it because, in their desperation to keep a lid on Britain’s dirty secrets, they’re willing to sacrifice bloody well anything or anyone?
The answer to that is most certainly yes.
You see the brutal murder of Jill Dando was not carried out by a lone-stalker or Serbian warlord.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was linked to a VIP paedophile ring which was operating within the BBC and beyond.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was ordered by the highest echelons of British society once it became clear that she had evidence of the ring and was about to expose it.
Jill Dando was shot at point-blank range in the head to silence her and also to serve as a warning to other journalists to keep their mouths shut.
We now know that child-rapist DJ Jimmy Savile had been abusing and procuring children at the BBC for decades.
Nobody said a word because of Savile’s links to the royals and government.
Jill Dando must have known about these rumours and would not have kept quiet.
Her close friend and confidante, Cliff Richard, has himself been named as a visitor to the notorious boy-brothel Elm Guest House, where vulnerable children were trafficked from local care homes to be abused by filthy VIPs.
Cliff was interviewed at length by detectives investigating the murder of Jill on several occasions.
Why was he such an important ‘ witness’ ?
Jill’s fiance, Alan Farthing, came face-to-face with Jill’s killer but conveniently forgot to tell the police.
Alan has since risen through the ranks of the medical profession and is now the doctor responsible for the birth of Kate and William’s new baby.
Was his promotion linked to Jill’s murder?
Jill’s colleague on Crimewatch, Nick Ross, has recently said he’d watch child-porn given half the chance.
Nick is married to Sarah Caplan the cousin of Esther Rantzen, who is also implicated in the Savile scandal.
Caplan and Rantzen founded Childline which appears to be a ‘front’ organisation used to filter out callers who may have been the victims of VIP child-abuse.
Nick Ross founded the ‘front’ Crimestopper’s helpline.
This helpline conveniently stopped working following an appeal for witnesses to Jill’s murder.
There were many procedural ‘mistakes‘ made by the Met Police during their investigations.
Officers conveniently forgot to question Jill’s neighbours and also botched the e-fit photo of the suspect by making his hair brown when it was actually blond.
Were these mistakes made deliberately to ensure the real killer would never be caught?
In a most sinister development Hamish Campbell, who was in charge of the investigation, was then put in charge of Operation Yewtree.
Are these mere coincidences or is there much more to the murder of Jill Dando than meets the eye?
Are the Met Police, the Judiciary, the BBC and the Government implicated in one of the biggest cover-ups this country has ever seen?
It’s no wonder the Establishment won’t give Barry George the justice and compensation he deserves.
If they did, their sordid child-abusing secrets would finally be exposed.
Barry Lindsey says he was driving past the Crimewatch presenter’s home when he saw her looking terrified as her killer confronted her
A vital witness believed to be the last person to see Jill Dando alive moments before her doorstep murder has come forward to claim that detectives IGNORED his evidence.
Barry Lindsey today reveals he was driving past the Crimewatch presenter’s home when he saw her looking terrified as her killer confronted her.
He considered intervening because she seemed so frightened, and hit his brakes. But he drove on only to hear the shot that killed her as he turned out of her road.
But when Mr Lindsey – distressed by what had happened – gave police a detailed description of the man Jill, 37, had been arguing with, he says they brushed it aside because they were obsessed with nailing Barry George, later wrongly convicted of her 1999 murder.
Mr Lindsey, now a 61-year-old grandfather, says: “I told officers they needed to find a man with olive skin, dark hair and who looked like he was of Mediterranean origin.
“But straight off, they said, ‘We are looking at a local guy over this murder. He is called Barry George’. They asked if I knew him and described what he looked like. But I told them, ‘That’s not the man I saw – I am 100 per cent sure of it’.
“As soon as those words left my mouth I felt like the police didn’t want to listen any more. The way they acted really took me by surprise.”
After giving the officers a statement, Mr Lindsey never heard from the police again. Weeks later they arrested their prime suspect. Mr George, 53, was convicted of Jill’s murder and served eight years before being freed on appeal.
Witness: Eye-witness Barry
In an exclusive Sunday Mirror interview last week, he told how the turmoil of the case had
left his life in tatters. And after reading the
emotional account, Mr Lindsey decided to end his years of silence over a day he says will
haunt him forever. Yesterday he revisited the spot where the TV star was killed and relived what happened. It is the first time he has been back since the shooting on April 26, 1999.
That morning the father of five was driving down Gowan Avenue in Fulham, South West London, in a green Toyota car. The retired print worker, who lived locally, was heading to Wimbledon to drop off the vehicle for a friend.
He says: “As I was driving along I glanced to my left and saw a woman arguing with a man.
“I hit the brakes, stopped in the middle of the road and looked through the back window. I will never forget the look on her face. It was one of absolute terror – her face had gone as white as the coat she was wearing.
“I considered getting out of the car but something in my head said, ‘don’t do it Barry’. A few years before, I had got involved in a domestic in the street and ended up in a fight with the man involved. I wound up in court. I didn’t want that to happen again.
“I looked one final time and saw her standing with her back to her front door. He was in front of her with his back to the road. I could see he had dark hair and looked Mediterranean.”
Day of death: Jill on CCTV
Mr Lindsey drove on. Then, as he turned left out of Gowan Avenue, he heard a gunshot.
“It could not have been anything else,” he says. “It was louder than a firework or a car backfiring. Instinctively, my foot hit the accelerator and I drove forward as fast as I could.”
The incident preyed on his mind for the rest of the day.
“When I got home that night, I flicked on the TV and saw the story about Jill Dando. I don’t watch TV that often so I had no idea who she was. But straight away I said to my wife, ‘I saw that woman today’. As I looked at the picture of her on the screen my blood ran cold.”
A retired printer, Mr Lindsey contacted a journalist he knew who was reporting on the case to reveal what he had seen. A short time later he was visited at home by two detectives investigating the Dando murder.
“I told the officers everything I had seen,” he says. “Within a few minutes they mentioned the name Barry George to me.
“They said he was a local guy who they were looking at in connection with the murder. I had seen pictures of him in the newspapers and told the officer there was no way that was the person I saw. For a start Barry George looked two stone heavier than the man I saw that morning.”
Officers then took Mr Lindsey to the murder scene where he repeated his account. “They kept asking again and again about Barry George,” he says. “They seemed frustrated when I said they needed to be looking for someone else.”
Mr Lindsey was surprised he never heard from police again. And it is even more surprising given the account provided by one witness at Barry George’s first trial. Helen Scott told the Old Bailey she noticed a man also of Mediterranean appearance with slightly olive skin, looking down towards Gowan Avenue the night before Jill died. It raises the possibility that she saw the same man described by Mr Lindsey hanging around Jill Dando’s home ahead of the murder.
Mr Lindsey says: “I expected the police to at least call back to take a second statement after Barry George was arrested. But I heard nothing.
“Eventually Barry George was charged and one TV news report even mentioned a man in a Range Rover who had seen an altercation on the morning she died. Presumably they were referring to me, but I never heard from the police again so I can’t say for sure. In the end I did start to question myself and what I might have seen that day. But deep down I knew what I saw.”
Mr Lindsey, who now lives in Woodford Green, East London, says he is ready to give police a new statement over the murder. “I’d be prepared to meet the police tomorrow,” he insisted.
“I don’t know what they could now do with my information but I can’t see how it would harm their chances of finding the person who killed that poor woman.
“It is such a tragic waste of a life. And it is really sad that Barry George has also ended up having his own life torn apart.”
In his first interview for five years last week, Mr George says police targeted him for the murder because his life was “disposable”.
Even when he was cleared at a 2008 retrial, he claims he was followed by officers around the clock and stopped and searched dozens of times before fleeing to Ireland with his sister in fear that he would be “fitted up” again.
He told us: “I hope it’s in my lifetime that the real killer is caught. Although I never met Jill Dando she was an innocent woman who was murdered and no person with any conscience could stand there and say they felt no compassion for her and her family.”
Despite a £587,000 forensic review, Scotland Yard did not find any new leads and the officers stopped investigating.
Mr George said: “The real killer is out there somewhere and the police aren’t looking for him. They needed someone to plug a hole and I was it. They victimised me and my life was disposable.”
Eye-witness Mr Lindsey also wants to see justice done and the killer caught.
He says: “I can’t help thinking that if the police had listened and looked at other suspects beyond Barry George then Jill Dando’s killer may now be in prison. They were clearly under pressure to get a result quickly because she was such a high profile victim. It was clear when I gave my statement that the officers had an idea in their mind of who they thought was responsible.
“I’m not saying what I told that day could have cracked the case but it might have helped lead officers in the right direction.
“I’d be happy to help them in the future in any way I can because I just want the person who did this brought to book.”
A spokesman for the Met said yesterday: “The case remains unsolved. As with all unsolved cases any evidence which we are presented with will be thoroughly examined by officers.”
Despite being innocent of all charges against him, and having almost certainly been framed by the British Establishment, the Courts have refused to allow George the right to appeal against the decision in what his sister calls a “travesty of justice”.
Why on earth aren’t the powers-that-be willing to acknowledge the distress and suffering caused to Barry George by being wrongly incarcerated for 8 years?
Why aren’t they awarding him an automatic compensation offer as they have done in other cases where a miscarriage of justice has taken place?
Why are they allowing us to think he is in someway still guilty despite being clearly innocent?
Is it because, in their desperation to keep a lid on Britain’s dirty secrets, they’re willing to sacrifice bloody well anything or anyone?
The answer to that is most certainly yes.
You see the brutal murder of Jill Dando was not carried out by a lone-stalker or Serbian warlord.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was linked to a VIP paedophile ring which was operating within the BBC and beyond.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was ordered by the highest echelons of British society once it became clear that she had evidence of the ring and was about to expose it.
Jill Dando was shot at point-blank range in the head to silence her and also to serve as a warning to other journalists to keep their mouths shut.
We now know that child-rapist DJ Jimmy Savile had been abusing and procuring children at the BBC for decades.
Nobody said a word because of Savile’s links to the royals and government. Jill Dando must have known about these rumours and would not have kept quiet.
Her close friend and confidante, Cliff Richard, has himself been named as a visitor to the notorious boy-brothel Elm Guest House, where vulnerable children were trafficked from local care homes to be abused by filthy VIPs.
Cliff was interviewed at length by detectives investigating the murder of Jill on several occasions.
Why was he such an important ‘ witness’ ?
Jill’s fiance, Alan Farthing, came face-to-face with Jill’s killer but conveniently forgot to tell the police.
Alan has since risen through the ranks of the medical profession and is now the doctor responsible for the birth of Kate and William’s new baby. Was his promotion linked to Jill’s murder?
Jill’s colleague on Crimewatch, Nick Ross, has recently said he’d watch child-porn given half the chance.
Nick is married to Sarah Caplan the cousin of Esther Rantzen, who is also implicated in the Savile scandal.
Caplan and Rantzen founded Childline which appears to be a ‘front’ organisation used to filter out callers who may have been the victims of VIP child-abuse.
Nick Ross founded the ‘front’ Crimestopper’s helpline.
This helpline conveniently stopped working following an appeal for witnesses to Jill’s murder.
There were many procedural ‘mistakes‘ made by the Met Police during their investigations.
Officers conveniently forgot to question Jill’s neighbours and also botched the e-fit photo of the suspect by making his hair brown when it was actually blond.
Were these mistakes made deliberately to ensure the real killer would never be caught?
In a most sinister development Hamish Campbell, who was in charge of the investigation, was then put in charge of Operation Yewtree.
Are these mere coincidences or is there much more to the murder of Jill Dando than meets the eye?
Are the Met Police, the Judiciary, the BBC and the Government implicated in one of the biggest cover-ups this country has ever seen?
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
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Jill Dando raised alarm about ‘paedophile ring at BBC’
MURDERED television presenter Jill Dando tried to alert her bosses to a paedophile ring at the BBC involving “big name” stars, claims a former colleague.
By: John CarrPublished: Mon, July 21, 2014
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/490169/Dando-alarm-paedophile-ring-BB C
Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando ‘knew of paedophile ring at the BBC’[PA]
The friend and retired BBC worker said the late Crimewatch host was told DJs, celebrities and other staff were involved in organised abuse.
But the anonymous source says “no one wanted to know” when Miss Dando raised concerns about the alleged ring and other sexual abuse claims at the BBC.
She is said to have passed a file to senior management in the mid-1990s, but they never carried out an investigation.
The 37-year-old TV presenter was shot dead on April 26, 1999, on the doorstep of her home in west London. The crime remains unsolved.
The source said: “I don’t recall the names of all the stars now and don’t want to implicate anyone, but Jill said they were surprisingly big names.
“I think she was quite shocked when told about images of children and that information on how to join this horrible paedophile ring was freely available.
“Jill said others had complained to her about sexual matters and that some female workmates also claimed they had been groped or assaulted.
“Nothing had been done and there seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye.”
The former colleague said female BBC staff confided in Jill, one of the best-known TV faces of the day after fronting primetime shows including Holiday and the Six O’Clock News as well as Crimewatch.
The source said: “I think it was in the mid-1990s. She was seen as the face of the BBC and a magnet for women with problems.”
Miss Dando compiled a file of complaints but was a television presenter and “not really an investigative journalist”, the source said. “She passed the information on to someone else and they gave it back. No one wanted to know.
“I do remember that she gave a file to senior management. I don’t think she heard any more.
“Other women who complained told Jill they didn’t want to risk their careers by making official statements against individuals as they would lose their jobs and that bosses seemed to ignore it.”
A BBC spokesman said they would always investigate any allegations of this nature, but added: “We’ve not seen anything that substantiates these claims.”
After Jimmy Savile’s sexual crimes were exposed in 2012, Jill’s fellow BBC presenter Sally Jones revealed that the disgraced DJ tried to kiss and grope her in a lift in the late 1980s.
At the time, she told Jill, who said Savile was “just a dirty old perv”.
The Crimewatch host “had to fend off plenty of unwelcome advances herself”, said Sally. DJ Liz Kershaw and former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly have also both claimed they suffered sexual harassment at the BBC in the 1980s.
Miss Dando joined a campaign to help children spot paedophiles the year before she died.
She had received death threats, putting the BBC in lock-down, with armed guards patrolling Television Centre in London.
Her death sparked one of Britain’s biggest murder hunts. Barry George was found guilty in 2001, but his conviction was quashed in 2008.
Theories about her death range from the culprit being a Serbian warlord angry over her TV appeal on behalf of Kosovan refugees, to British underworld enforcers furious at her Crimewatch investigations.
Miss Dando was also looking into the death of her friend, Chelsea vice-chairman Matthew Harding, who was killed in a helicopter crash.
MURDERED TV presenter Jill Dando tried to expose a paedophile ring involving “big-name” BBC stars, a former colleague has claimed. By Don Hale / Published 21st July 2014 Facebook Twitter Google According to the retired BBC worker, the Crimewatch host was told that DJs, stars and corporation staff were involved in organised abuse. But when she tried to get bosses to investigate the alleged ring and other abuse complaints inside the BBC “no one wanted to know”, the former friend said. Undeterred, Jill is said to have then raised the claims with senior management in the mid-1990s but no investigation took place. The TV host was shot dead a few years later on the doorstep of her London home. The 37-year- old’s murder remains unsolved. Her ex-colleague, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I don’t recall the names of all the stars now and don’t really want to implicate anyone but Jill said they were surprisingly big names. “I think she was quite shocked when told about images of children and that information on how to join this horrible paedophile ring was freely available. “Jill said others had complained to her about sexual matters and that some fellow female workmates also claimed they had been groped or assaulted. “Nothing had been done and there seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye.” The source told how female colleagues went to Jill, who was then one of the best-known faces on TV. She said: “I think it was in the mid 1990s, Jill was working on almost everything then including Crimewatch and Holiday. “She was seen as the face of the BBC and a magnet for women with problems. “She compiled a file of complaints but she was not really an investigative journalist, just a presenter. “She passed the information to someone else and they gave it back. No one wanted to know. “I do remember that she gave a file to senior management. I don’t think she heard any more. “Other women who complained told Jill they didn’t want to risk their careers by making official statements against individuals as they would lose their jobs and that bosses seemed to ignore it. “We all decided the best way was to keep our heads down and to always try to go somewhere with a colleague.” The BBC said it would look into the allegations but added: “We have not seen anything to substantiate these claims.” Presenters Liz Kershaw and Miriam O’Reilly have both made allegations of sexual harassment at the BBC. After Jimmy Savile was exposed as a paedophile and serial sex attacker in 2012, fellow BBC presenter Sally Jones spoke of how he had tried to grope her in a lift. She confided in Jill after the attack, adding that the Crimewatch host said “she had had to fend off plenty of unwelcome advances herself”. Sally said Jill told her Savile was “just a dirty old perv”. Jill was shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham in 1999. Barry George was found guilty of her murder in 2001 but his conviction was quashed in 2008. Jill joined a campaign to help children spot paedophiles the year before she died.
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'I had death threats before Jill Dando's murder but police did nothing', reveals former BBC colleague Alice Beer
BBC host Alice Beer received death threats before Jill Dando's murder
Letters were passed on to police - but officers never contacted her
BBC star Anne Robinson also received threats three days after murder
By AMANDA WILLIAMS FOR MAILONLINE
Police investigating Jill Dando's murder failed to act on death threats made to her TV colleague just weeks before the Crimewatch star was murdered.
BBC host Alice Beer has revealed she was targeted by the same person who threatened to rape and kidnap her and Miss Dando in letters sent to the corporation.
The letters were passed on to police but the presenter said that officers never spoke to her about them - even after Miss Dando was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, west London, in April 1999.
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BBC host Alice Beer has revealed she was targeted by the same person who threatened to rape and kidnap her and Jill Dando in letters sent to the corporation
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BBC host Alice Beer has revealed she was targeted by the same person who threatened to rape and kidnap her and Jill Dando in letters sent to the corporation
The letters were passed on to police but the presenter said that officers never spoke to her about them - even after Miss Dando was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, west London, in April 1999
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The letters were passed on to police but the presenter said that officers never spoke to her about them - even after Miss Dando was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, west London, in April 1999
She told the Sunday Mirror that fellow BBC star Anne Robinson received a death threat just three days after her murder.
She said: 'I waited for a call from the police after Jill's death – but it never came. Nobody spoke to me about the threat.
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'Nobody questioned anything. If no stone were left unturned in that investigation then I would have been called.'
Barry George, of Fulham, was initially convicted in July 2001 but was acquitted of killing the 37-year-old presenter at a retrial in August 2008.
Ms Beer, worked alongside Miss Dando on the BBC's Children in Need and Holiday shows, and is now a presenter on ITV's This Morning.
Fellow BBC star Anne Robinson also received a death threat just three days after Jill Dando's murder
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Fellow BBC star Anne Robinson also received a death threat just three days after Jill Dando's murder
Barry George, of Fulham, was initially convicted in July 2001 but was acquitted of killing the 37-year-old presenter at a retrial in August 2008
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Barry George, of Fulham, was initially convicted in July 2001 but was acquitted of killing the 37-year-old presenter at a retrial in August 2008
Barry George says he wants justice for Jill Dando's family
She was working on BBC consumer programme Watchdog when she received the threats in March 1999, the paper said.
Her colleague on the show, Anne Robinson, received a death threat by phone three days after the killing, which according to the paper said: 'From Serbia, going to kill Anne Robinson, Alice Beer and two others.'
Ms Beer said she believed her threat was penned by the same perpetrator that threatened Miss Dando.
She said: 'The letters were in the same handwriting from a person claiming they wanted to capture and rape us. Mine was in amongst my mail at the BBC. My letter was handed over to the police via the programme editors or the management of the BBC.
'I was told Jill Dando had had a similar letter in the same handwriting and the local Shepherd's Bush police were investigating.'
The murder had been a 'slick' and 'professional' operation, she added.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: 'The Metropolitan Police Service fully investigated the circumstances into the murder of Jill Dando. Two trials took place and the investigation was subject to an internal review.
22:30, 31 March 2015 By Nick Dorman , Mark Williams-Thomas
Top lawyer calls for inquiry as we reveal Jill murder defence team never saw key profiles
Legal chief Alison Saunders, tragic Jill Dando and former suspect Barry George
Profiles of Jill Dando’s killer were not revealed to Barry George’s defence team when he was wrongly convicted of her murder.
The psychologist’s reports could have helped clear George before he served eight years in jail, it is claimed. But police and lawyers, including Alison Saunders, who is now Director of Public Prosecutions, did not give them to the defence.
Daily Mirror World Exclusive: Inside the world of Barry George. Never-before-seen footage from police raid following Dando's murder Video loading
And last night, Barry George’s lawyer Michael Mansfield QC demanded an inquiry into the scandal after we unearthed a crucial letter from 2001 as part of our investigation into the Dando files.
Ms Saunders, the chief prosecutor in the case, signed the letter six months before George’s trial. It said: “There is not in existence a psychological offender profile.”
When asked about it this week, a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: “This was a letter written almost 15 years ago. It was written in good faith at the time.”
It is claimed the offender profiles showed that police were focusing too much on Barry George, leaving the real killer to go free. Mr Mansfield also claims that if they had been brought before a court, they they could have helped clear George.
In the Dando Files the key documents are called “Briefing Notes”, but they were compiled by forensic psychologist Dr Adrian West, renowned for his profiling work with police. Questions must now be answered by the police and the CPS about why the profiles were not passed on.
Mr Mansfield said: “The key thing is that those profiles could have led to other lines of enquiry.”
He added, in his opinion: “They may not have wanted to reveal they had done this because it may have revealed a sort of air of desperation.
“They were targeting a weird bizarre man. Then, having got him charged, they are reinforced in their belief by a profile that tends to support George as the man responsible.”
He added: “Alison Saunders is now the Director of Public Prosecutions. There have to be further questions and the CPS should give proper answers to this. If push comes to shove it’s a matter for Chris Grayling, the Lord Chancellor, and the Ministry of Justice.”
Police brought in renowned profiler Dr Adrian West less than a month after the murder to explore the theory that a stalker killed Jill. He produced three reports. The first suggested a lone stalker was just one of many possibilities. The second moved closer to the stalker theory.
PA Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, poses for a photograph in her office in London
Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders
The third – which was written after Barry George was charged – fitted the prime suspect’s character closely, although he was never named in it.
Mr Mansfield claimed that if he’d been given the reports he could have used the first one to show that George could not have been capable of killing Jill. It stated: “The perpetrator has demonstrated an ability to plan and prepare.
“The level of organisation and planning reduces the likelihood of the perpetrator currently suffering from a functional psychiatric illness.”
Assessments after George’s arrest concluded he was suffering from a number of mental disorders, learning difficulties and had an IQ of 75, far lower than average for an adult.
Mr Mansfield also said he could have used all three reports to show the jury that the police investigation was focusing too much on the wrong man.
There is no suggestion Dr West had colluded with officers to construct profiles to fit George. Dr West, who still advises police forces and lectures part time at Lancaster University, was not available for comment.
A police spokesman said: “The Metropolitan Police Service fully investigated the circumstances into the murder of Jill Dando.
“Two trials took place and the investigation was subject to an internal review. If any new information comes to our attention then this will be investigated.”
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Jill Dando murder documentary: Watch Mark Williams-Thomas' explosive film in full after year-long investigation
19:11, 4 April 2015 By Nick Dorman
The compelling 47-minute film came after the double award-winning investigative reporter pored over more than 52,000 documents, plus hours of previously unseen footage
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jill-dando-murder-documentary-wat ch-5460623
The Dando Files: See the whole documentary here
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An exclusive documentary revealing the secrets of the Jill Dando murder case can be watched in full for the first time today - ONLY on our website.
The compelling 47-minute film is the result of a year-long probe by double award-winning investigative reporter Mark Williams-Thomas.
During his forensic review, former detective Mark pored over more than 52,000 documents, plus hours of previously unseen footage.
Investigation: Jill Dando, left, and the man arrested for her murder, Barry George
Mark, honoured by the Royal Television Society for his Exposure film unmasking Jimmy Savile as a predatory paedophile, worked alongside a Mirror team.
The documentary features full interviews with experts connected with the case who raise grave fears the original police investigation into Jill’s 1999 murder was flawed.
Mark explores in detail why potentially key lines of enquiry may have been missed, as police concentrated their efforts on nailing Jill’s neighbour Barry George.
Daily MirrorMark Williams Thomas with Jill Dando file boxesHuge Investigation: Journalist Mark Williams-Thomas pictured with Jill Dando file boxes
Viewers can see for the first time prime suspect George being interviewed by detectives, and film from the police search of the loner’s home.
38-year-old Crimewatch presenter Jill was shot dead on her doorstep on April 26, 1999 and her killer remains at large.
Barry George was convicted of her murder the following year and jailed before being cleared in 2008 after a retrial.
George tells in his own words why the real killer must be found for the sake of Jill’s family.
Jill Dando's murderer revealed: Crimewatch kill was ordered by Mr Big
22:22, 1 April 2015 By Mark Williams-Thomas
Mark Williams-Thomas, TV investigator and former police detective who exposed Jimmy Savile, concludes TV star died at orders of a Mr Big warning others off probing crime clan
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jill-dandos-murderer-revealed-cri mewatch-5443440
Jill Dando's murderer revealed: Crimewatch kill was ordered by Mr Big
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Jill Dando’s killer shot the BBC star because of her work on Crimewatch.
That is the conclusion I have come to after a year-long forensic investigation of the original Dando case files, exclusively published this week in the Mirror.
My theory is that Jill was gunned down on the orders of a London underworld Mr Big to send out a direct, bloody message to others: “Do not take on organised crime.”
Trawling through more than 52,000 documents in the Dando Files, I unearthed an intelligence report naming two men from Islington, North London, who were said to be acting for one of the capital’s most prominent crime families.
It suggested Jill was being targeted for investigating crime on television. The report goes on to detail how after shooting her the men disposed of the murder weapon in a canal on their home turf.
PAJill Dando murder trial bullet cartridge evidence July 1999The bullet cartridge found at the scene of Jill Dando's murder
But the lead detective on the Dando case, DCI Hamish Campbell, ordered no further action on the report. Prime suspect Barry George had already been charged.
A memo submitted to detectives names a “registered source” who was at the time serving life for murder. An officer who went to quiz him in prison on February 1, 2001, came back with the two men’s names, which we can’t reveal for legal reasons.
BBCJill Dando from Holiday programme sitting on tree trunk on beach wearing blueJill Dando was also a presenter on the Holiday programme
The source said the crime clan believed Dando was working on a TV programme about them before she was gunned down on her doorstep in Fulham, South West London, on April 26, 1999.
The report goes on to say the gun was broken into four pieces, which were thrown into a canal in Islington. One of the men was later identified but detectives found no apparent link to the crime family. The other was seemingly never found.
PA9mm Beretta pistol
Whoever was to blame for killing Jill, it is my strong belief there is one key reason why they were allowed to slip through the net of the biggest police manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper.
The 47 detectives in the Kensington incident room had become too focused on nailing George, Jill’s loner neighbour. He was jailed for murder in July 2001 but freed in 2008 after a retrial.
So Jill may have signed her own death warrant through her work on Crimewatch. Every month she, Nick Ross and their team helped bring villains to justice through the show which attracted nine million viewers.
BBCJill Dando, Nick Ross and Superintendent David Hatcher and Detective Constable Jacqui HamesCrimewatch (from left) Jill Dando, Nick Ross and Superintendent David Hatcher and Detective Constable Jacqui Hames (seated) pictured presenting Crimewatch UK for BBC ONE. Miss Dando, was shot dead Monday April, 26 1999, at very close range with a 9mm semi-automatic gun, police said
There are several reasons why I’m convinced a contract killer shot Jill. First, she was shot with a single bullet to the head which indicates they were well-trained enough to know that would be enough.
I believe the gunman considered taking lives to be all in a day’s work and was paid handsomely. He also got a buzz from pulling off the “perfect murder”.
A second major factor which supports the hitman theory is the fact that on a busy London street in broad daylight, no one saw the shooting or could even say for sure they had seen him. He just slipped away.
Third, he vanished without a trace of DNA or any other evidence, bar the bullet.
Barry George police interview - George did not know the difference between a blank and replica
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During my research the respected criminologist David Wilson told me: “Everything about this murder screams out professional hit. It has all the hallmarks.”
I have explored many other theories, including a Serbian hit, an IRA revenge killing and a maniac who sent a letter threatening to kidnap and rape Jill and colleague Alice Beer just a month before her death.
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Russian Pokorov Prokolov pistol?
No surely a Makarov or more likely Tokarev
WHY DON'T WE KNOW - WHY HAS THIS BASIC STUFF LIKE WHICH GUN WAS USED TO KILL JILL DANDO NOT 'OUT THERE'
Gerry Coulter went to Budapest to see Hungarian mercenary chief Petrokov
He led a band of ex Russian infantrymen who were 'looking for work'
They bragged that "We did the Dando job" (1999)
But Russian army was going unpaid around mid 1990s - 1996
Framed Barry George described as a 'half-wit' for converting starting pistol - total rubbish
Quote:
Gangsters boasted they killed Jill Dando
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/86969/Gangsters-boasted-they-killed-J ill-Dando
A WEALTHY engineer has claimed he met a gang of contract hitmen who boasted they had assassinated Jill Dando.
By JAMES MURRAY - Daily Express
Gerry Coulter, 54, said he met the men in Budapest a year after the Crimewatch presenter was killed on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, in west London, in 1999.
He claimed they contacted him after reading on the internet that he had a series of run-ins with Dorset police and were offering to shoot police officers, for a fee.
Mr Coulter said: ‘‘They said they had been given the Dando job as a contract and were bragging about how professional they had been. It is bizarre to think I could have been in the same room as the person who killed her.
“They were offering to shoot three Dorset police officers for me at £10,000 a head.
“They were using the Dando case as a way of showing what sort of service was on offer.”
The meeting took place in 2000 and he says he reported it to police at the time but does not believe it was pursued as Barry George was at that time serving a life sentence for the murder.
Mr Coulter’s claims come as Scotland Yard investigates claims that a man of Serbian descent now living in the West Midlands confessed in a pub in Belgrade in September 2001 to shooting BBC presenter Miss Dando, 37.
There is no suggestion that he is linked to the men Mr Coulter met in Hungary the year before.
Mr Coulter became a thorn in the side of Dorset police after his Jeep was stolen and he was involved in a lengthy civil dispute over ownership.
Annoyed by what he saw as bureaucracy within the force he used ‘dorsetpolice’ as a domain name for a website, which led to further legal action.
Mr Coulter, a six dan karate expert who regularly fights in Japan, said the mercenaries contacted him after reading about his dispute on the internet.
“I was concerned about them turning up on my doorstep as at the time I was married to a Japanese lady and so I took up their offer to meet in Hungary and went out there one weekend,” he said.
“I went out of curiosity and to find out who they were and why they contacted me.
“I met one of them and was taken to a flat where there were about five or six men.
“The leader said he had been a paratrooper in the Hungarian army and he was dressed in a smart suit with a black polo neck jumper. The others said they had served in the Russian army and were dressed in jeans and leather jackets.
“It was a small mercenary unit using the internet to try to find work. I could tell they were ex-soldiers looking to make money.
“The leader said they had been given a contract to shoot Miss Dando but would not say who had given the contract.
“They didn’t say if the hitman was in the room. I made it very clear I was not interested and left. I had a few calls afterwards but made it clear I was not interested and wanted them to stop contacting me.”
Misfit loner Barry George, 48, was serving life for the murder at the time but he was acquitted at an Old Bailey retrial last year after the forensic evidence was found to be flawed and suspect.
Last week a petty criminal was reported as taking a bow in a Belgrade bar after boasting of shooting Miss Dando in retaliation for Nato’s bombing of the city.
The Yard’s homicide squad are looking into this “confession”.
Commander Simon Foy, the squad’s head, said it would inappropriate to comment on whether the man would be interviewed, or on any specific lines of inquiry his team was pursuing.
Okay so we have the murder weapon confirmed now too
Does anyone know a contact for Barry George's solicitor?
Murder weapon was a Tokarev automatic
Gerry Coulter went to Budapest to see Hungarian mercenary chief Petrokov
He led a band of ex Russian infantrymen who were 'looking for work'
They bragged that "We did the Dando job" (1999)
But Russian army was going unpaid around mid 1990s - 1996
Framed Barry George described as a 'half-wit' for converting starting pistol - total rubbish
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/86969/Gangsters-boasted-they-killed-J ill-Dando
“They were offering to shoot three Dorset police officers for me at £10,000 a head.
“They were using the Dando case as a way of showing what sort of service was on offer.”
The meeting took place in 2000 and he says he reported it to police at the time but does not believe it was pursued as Barry George was at that time serving a life sentence for the murder.
Mr Coulter’s claims come as Scotland Yard investigates claims that a man of Serbian descent now living in the West Midlands confessed in a pub in Belgrade in September 2001 to shooting BBC presenter Miss Dando, 37.
Mr Coulter, a six dan karate expert
“The leader said he had been a paratrooper in the Hungarian army
“It was a small mercenary unit using the internet to try to find work. _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
Profiles of Jill Dando’s killer were not revealed to Barry George’s defence team when he was wrongly convicted of her murder.
The psychologist’s reports could have helped clear George before he served eight years in jail, it is claimed. But police and lawyers, including Alison Saunders, who is now Director of Public Prosecutions, did not give them to the defence.
And last night, Barry George’s lawyer Michael Mansfield QC demanded an inquiry into the scandal after we unearthed a crucial letter from 2001 as part of our investigation into the Dando files.
Ms Saunders, the chief prosecutor in the case, signed the letter six months before George’s trial. It said: “There is not in existence a psychological offender profile.”
When asked about it this week, a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: “This was a letter written almost 15 years ago. It was written in good faith at the time.”
It is claimed the offender profiles showed that police were focusing too much on Barry George, leaving the real killer to go free. Mr Mansfield also claims that if they had been brought before a court, they they could have helped clear George.
In the Dando Files the key documents are called “Briefing Notes”, but they were compiled by forensic psychologist Dr Adrian West, renowned for his profiling work with police. Questions must now be answered by the police and the CPS about why the profiles were not passed on.
Mr Mansfield said: “The key thing is that those profiles could have led to other lines of enquiry.”
He added, in his opinion: “They may not have wanted to reveal they had done this because it may have revealed a sort of air of desperation.
“They were targeting a weird bizarre man. Then, having got him charged, they are reinforced in their belief by a profile that tends to support George as the man responsible.”
He added: “Alison Saunders is now the Director of Public Prosecutions. There have to be further questions and the CPS should give proper answers to this. If push comes to shove it’s a matter for Chris Grayling, the Lord Chancellor, and the Ministry of Justice.”
Police brought in renowned profiler Dr Adrian West less than a month after the murder to explore the theory that a stalker killed Jill. He produced three reports. The first suggested a lone stalker was just one of many possibilities. The second moved closer to the stalker theory.
The third – which was written after Barry George was charged – fitted the prime suspect’s character closely, although he was never named in it.
Mr Mansfield claimed that if he’d been given the reports he could have used the first one to show that George could not have been capable of killing Jill. It stated: “The perpetrator has demonstrated an ability to plan and prepare.
“The level of organisation and planning reduces the likelihood of the perpetrator currently suffering from a functional psychiatric illness.”
Assessments after George’s arrest concluded he was suffering from a number of mental disorders, learning difficulties and had an IQ of 75, far lower than average for an adult.
Mr Mansfield also said he could have used all three reports to show the jury that the police investigation was focusing too much on the wrong man.
There is no suggestion Dr West had colluded with officers to construct profiles to fit George. Dr West, who still advises police forces and lectures part time at Lancaster University, was not available for comment.
A police spokesman said: “The Metropolitan Police Service fully investigated the circumstances into the murder of Jill Dando.
We learn this month that Barry George has been denied compensation for being falsely imprisoned for the murder of Jill Dando.
Despite being innocent of all charges against him, and having almost certainly been framed by the British Establishment, the Courts have refused to allow George the right to appeal against the decision in what his sister calls a “travesty of justice”.
Why on earth aren’t the powers-that-be willing to acknowledge the distress and suffering caused to Barry George by being wrongly incarcerated for 8 years?
Why aren’t they awarding him an automatic compensation offer as they have done in other cases where a miscarriage of justice has taken place?
Why are they allowing us to think he is in someway still guilty despite being clearly innocent?
Is it because, in their desperation to keep a lid on Britain’s dirty secrets, they’re willing to sacrifice bloody well anything or anyone?
The answer to that is most certainly yes.
You see the brutal murder of Jill Dando was not carried out by a lone-stalker or Serbian warlord.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was linked to a VIP paedophile ring which was operating within the BBC and beyond.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was ordered by the highest echelons of British society once it became clear that she had evidence of the ring and was about to expose it.
Jill Dando was shot at point-blank range in the head to silence her and also to serve as a warning to other journalists to keep their mouths shut.
We now know that child-rapist DJ Jimmy Savile had been abusing and procuring children at the BBC for decades.
Nobody said a word because of Savile’s links to the royals and government. Jill Dando must have known about these rumours and would not have kept quiet.
Her close friend and confidante, Cliff Richard, has himself been named as a visitor to the notorious boy-brothel Elm Guest House, where vulnerable children were trafficked from local care homes to be abused by filthy VIPs.
Cliff was interviewed at length by detectives investigating the murder of Jill on several occasions.
Why was he such an important ‘ witness’ ?
Jill’s fiance, Alan Farthing, came face-to-face with Jill’s killer but conveniently forgot to tell the police.
Alan has since risen through the ranks of the medical profession and is now the doctor responsible for the birth of Kate and William’s new baby. Was his promotion linked to Jill’s murder?
Jill’s colleague on Crimewatch, Nick Ross, has recently said he’d watch child-porn given half the chance.
Nick is married to Sarah Caplan the cousin of Esther Rantzen, who is also implicated in the Savile scandal.
Caplan and Rantzen founded Childline which appears to be a ‘front’ organisation used to filter out callers who may have been the victims of VIP child-abuse.
Nick Ross founded the ‘front’ Crimestopper’s helpline.
This helpline conveniently stopped working following an appeal for witnesses to Jill’s murder.
There were many procedural ‘mistakes‘ made by the Met Police during their investigations.
Officers conveniently forgot to question Jill’s neighbours and also botched the e-fit photo of the suspect by making his hair brown when it was actually blond. Were these mistakes made deliberately to ensure the real killer would never be caught?
In a most sinister development Hamish Campbell, who was in charge of the investigation, was then put in charge of Operation Yewtree.
Are these mere coincidences or is there much more to the murder of Jill Dando than meets the eye?
Are the Met Police, the Judiciary, the BBC and the Government implicated in one of the biggest cover-ups this country has ever seen?
It’s no wonder the Establishment won’t give Barry George the justice and compensation he deserves.
If they did, their sordid child-abusing secrets would finally be exposed.
Britain really is a filthy nation.
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Jill Dando warned me of ‘pervy’ Jimmy Savile, says BBC’s Sally Jones
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Sunday 28 Oct 2012 12:35 pm Share this article via facebookShare this article via twitterShare this article via messenger BBC journalist Sally Jones has said that Jill Dando warned her of Jimmy Savile’s ‘perverted’ ways while comforting her after he made advances. Ms Jones told how she had a ‘close encounter’ with the DJ after getting into a lift with him. The late Jill Dando was apparently aware of Jimmy Savile’s ‘perverted’ ways (Pic: Getty Images) Writing in the Mail, the journalist said that she was acquainted with Savile when in her early thirties, but found him to be ‘a weird, self-conscious attention-seeker, even creepier than the rest of his fellow DJs’. After finding herself alone in a lift with him, she reveals how he asked for a kiss before forcing his tongue into her mouth. ‘The acrid taste of cigar smoke almost made me retch and I froze, cringing, as he ran one hand up from my waist and fumbled for my breast,’ she said. Ms Jones pushed him away and later confided what had happened in her friend Ms Dando, herself a new journalist at the BBC. She recalls how Ms Dando said: ‘Of course you didn’t ask for it.’ ‘He’s just a dirty old perv – half the DJs are like that.’ The TV presenter recalls how she decided to keep the incident to herself for the sake of her career, explaining that Savile was then one of the biggest names in showbiz. ‘I regarded myself as a serious reporter and I certainly didn’t want to be stereotyped as casting-couch fodder or a namby victim who could not stand up for herself,’ she said.
Select Language Sunday, 28 July 2013
Jill Dando murdered by the State to keep lid on elite paedophile Ring
We learn this month that Barry George has been denied compensation for being falsely imprisoned for the murder of Jill Dando.
Despite being innocent of all charges against him, and having almost certainly been framed by the British Establishment, the Courts have refused to allow George the right to appeal against the decision in what his sister calls a “travesty of justice”.
Why on earth aren’t the powers-that-be willing to acknowledge the distress and suffering caused to Barry George by being wrongly incarcerated for 8 years?
Why aren’t they awarding him an automatic compensation offer as they have done in other cases where a miscarriage of justice has taken place?
Why are they allowing us to think he is in some way still guilty despite being clearly innocent? Is it because, in their desperation to keep a lid on Britain’s dirty secrets, they’re willing to sacrifice bloody well anything or anyone?
The answer to that is most certainly yes.
You see the brutal murder of Jill Dando was not carried out by a lone-stalker or Serbian warlord.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was linked to a VIP paedophile ring which was operating within the BBC and beyond.
The brutal murder of Jill Dando was ordered by the highest echelons of British society once it became clear that she had evidence of the ring and was about to expose it.
Jill Dando was shot at point-blank range in the head to silence her and also to serve as a warning to other journalists to keep their mouths shut.
We now know that child-rapist DJ Jimmy Savile had been abusing and procuring children at the BBC for decades and Jill Dando knew about Savile
Nobody said a word because of Savile’s links to the Royals and Government. Savile is known to have threatened to silence anyone who crossed him by using his contacts in the state-run IRA and criminal underworld.But Jill Dando was not a lady to stand by and let innocent children be raped. Jill knew about Jimmy Savile and was not going to be silenced
Jill's close friend and confidante, Cliff Richard, has himself been named as a visitor to the notorious boy-brothel Elm Guest House, where vulnerable children were trafficked from local care homes to be abused by VIP's.
These Elm Guest House VIPS's included former Home Secretary Leon Brittan who is famed for conveniently 'losing' the child abuse dossier given to him by Geoffrey Dicken's MP in 1983. And proving the cover-up is not historic at all copies of these dossiers naming senior Politicians and Judges were seized in 2010 and 'lost' again by three police forces Derby, North Wales and Yorkshire. When these dossiers of evidence were seized by Court Order from intelligence agent Andrea Davison in 2010.
Jill's Elm Guest House friend Cliff Richard was interviewed at length by detectives investigating the murder of Jill on several occasions. Why was he such an important ‘ witness'?
Jill’s fiancée, Alan Farthing, came face-to-face with Jill’s killer but conveniently forgot to tell the police. Alan has since risen through the ranks of the medical profession and is now the doctor responsible for the birth of Kate and William’s new baby. Was his promotion linked to Jill’s murder?
Jill’s colleague on Crimewatch, Nick Ross, has recently said he’d watch child-porn given half the chance. Nick is married to Sarah Caplan the cousin of Esther Rantzen, who is also implicated in the Savile scandal.
Caplan and Rantzen founded Childline which is suspected now to be a ‘front’ organisation used to filter out callers who may have been the victims of VIP child-abuse.
BBC PaedosJill Executed
Nick Ross founded the ‘front’ Crimestoppers helpline. This helpline conveniently stopped working following an appeal for witnesses to Jill’s murder.
One of the first journalists at the scene was Clarence Mitchell, who is employed by the intelligence services and was later the spokesperson in the mysterious disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Mitchell is a notorious master of the dark art of spin and lies, a talent shared by Labour filth, Alastair Campbell, who was strangely also quizzed by the Met at the time of the murder.
Eyewitness Barry Lindsey who saw the murderer says he felt the Police "didn’t want to listen" Police had no interest in his evidence they " brushed it aside because they were obsessed with nailing Barry George" he said.
There were many procedural ‘mistakes‘ made by the Met Police during their investigations.
Were these mistakes made deliberately to ensure the real killer would never be caught?
In a most sinister development DCS Hamish Campbell, who was in charge of the investigation, was then put in charge of Operation Yewtree. Campbell was also head of the investigative review into the disappearance of little Madeline McCann .
Are these mere coincidences or is there much more to the murder of Jill Dando than meets the eye?
Are the Police, the Judiciary, the CPS, the BBC and the Government implicated in one of the biggest cover-ups this country has ever seen?
It’s no wonder the Establishment won’t give Barry George the justice and compensation he deserves. If they did, their sordid child-abusing secrets may finally be exposed.
A little over a year later, the Daily Star has confirmed that Jill was indeed investigating the VIP paedophile ring linked to the BBC, government and royalty.
According to their report:
” MURDERED TV presenter Jill Dando tried to expose a paedophile ring involving “big-name” BBC stars, a former colleague has claimed.
Jill Dando told bosses about claims of sexual abuse [BBC]
According to the retired BBC worker, the Crimewatch host was told that DJs, stars and corporation staff were involved in organised abuse. But when she tried to get bosses to investigate the alleged ring and other abuse complaints inside the BBC “no one wanted to know”, the former friend said.Undeterred, Jill is said to have then raised the claims with senior management in the mid-1990s but no investigation took place.The TV host was shot dead a few years later on the doorstep of her London home. The 37-year-old’s murder remains unsolved.Her ex-colleague, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I don’t recall the names of all the stars now and don’t really want to implicate anyone but Jill said they were surprisingly big names.“I think she was quite shocked when told about images of children and that information on how to join this horrible paedophile ring was freely available.“Jill said others had complained to her about sexual matters and that some fellow female workmates also claimed they had been groped or assaulted.
“Nothing had been done and there seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye.”
In the months before her death, Jill was mysteriously befriended by Cliff Richard and Alan Farthing:
Alan Farthing cover up merchant
” In April 1999, BBC presenter Jill Dando was shot in the head at point-blank range on her Fulham doorstep.
To this day the case remains unsolved.
Various theories about her assassination have emerged over the years, the most ridiculous being that she was killed by Serb dissidents.
Barry George, an innocent man, was imprisoned for 8 years and denied compensation when he was eventually released.
There have been many (deliberate) procedural mistakes made by the Met Police.
So who really killed Jill Dando?
We now know without a shadow of a doubt that Jill was investigating the VIP paedophile-ring, linked to Government, Royalty and the BBC.
BBC Organised Paedo Ring
Jill was mysteriously befriended by Cliff Richard prior to her death.
Cliff is not quite the celibate, Christian singer he appears to be.
Cliff is very much a tool of the British and Israeli Intelligence Services, and may have lots to tell officers investigating child-abuse in this country.
He has been named as a visitor to the sordid Elm Guest House boy-brothel, where vulnerable boys were trafficked from local care homes to be abused by VIP paedos.
Cliff is also incredibly close to Tony Blair and, according to insiders, the two have been….how can we put this delicately….intimate (what a sickening thought).
Mysteriously, Cliff was one of the last people to have ever spoken to Jill and was interviewed by police investigators about her murder.
Jill and Cliff
Jill’s fiancée, Alan Farthing, is also an Establishment tool and was roped into the plot to get rid of her.
He was handsomely rewarded by being promoted to the Queen’s personal gynaecologist (an even more sickening thought).
The deaths of BBC presenters Kristian Digby, Mark Speight and Natasha Collins are also linked to the ring.
Tony Blair is a filthy piece of * who is about to get his f*****g comeuppance for his hand in the deaths of many brave British soldiers and innocent civilians.
Alistair Campbell and Blair
Blair is also employed by Mossad and acts as a conduit between Israel and the UK.
Blair has been blackmailed into his position because of all the dirt Intel have collected on him over the years.
Alastair Campbell was Blair’s dark spin-meister, and is also up to his neck in filth of the highest order.
Campbell was also interviewed by investigators at the time of Jill’s death.
Jill Dando Suspect
Jill’s co-host on Crimewatch, Nick Ross, pretended to grieve over Jill, when he fact he was also party to the conspiracy.
Ross is the brother-in-law of BBC filth, Esther Rantzen, who knew all about Savile.
Nick Ross recently said he’d watch child-pornography given the chance.
Nick Ross Jill Dando
The Crimestoppers helpline is owned by Ross and conveniently stopped working following an appeal into the shooting.
Another director is Lord Waheed Alli, who is a major player in the paedophile-ring and works closely with perverted scum, Peter Mandelson and Bob Geldof.”
Cliff once went on a fact-finding mission with child-rapist Jimmy Savile and Lord Longford:
” One of Myra Hindley’s most famous supporters was Lord Longford, who spent years lobbying for her release. Lord Longford went on a fact-finding mission in the ’70′s to investigate pornography. He took along Jimmy Savile and Cliff Richard.
Jill Dando knew all about the BBC paedo-ring run by Savile and told her close chum Cliff. She was soon shot dead on her doorstep as a warning to others to keep their mouths shut.
Longford was the uncle of Harriet Harman MP, who has recently been embroiled in the recent PIE paedophile scandal.
Harriet Harman's Uncle Lord Longford
Harman is in turn a cousin of Prime Minister David Cameron, who is in turn a cousin of the Queen.
Another high-profile Hindley campaigner was wealthy journo, David Astor who spent 20 years corresponding with her and was close to Longford:
” Longford and Astor had known each other since Oxford. Their paths had often crossed in the beaten ways of liberal postwar Britain, and they shared an interest in prison reform. Astor was agnostic, verging on atheist, Longford a devout Roman Catholic. Both were fascinated by the idea of redemption.”
By a strange coincidence, David Astor was the step-uncle of Samantha Cameron.”
In a bizarre twist, Cliff also owns a home in Portugal, not far from where Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.
Gerry and Kate McCann were immediately given high-level support from the UK government and were assigned the help of Clarence Mitchell to act as their spokesperson.
Mitchell was one of the first reporters at the scene of Jill Dando’s murder in Fulham and no doubt works for the UK Intelligence Services.
Clarence Mitchell and McCanns
The McCann family are themselves from Leicester and Gerry has many friends in high places in the area.
Another visitor to the Warner holiday complex in Praia de Luz at the time of Maddie’s disappearance was Philip Edmond Hodge, the nephew of Margaret Hodge (yet another Labour peer).
Margaret Oppenheimer- Hodge has been implicated in the Islington care home scandal where again thousands of children were abused in council-run care homes.
Despite this scandal leading to the tragic death of Jason Swift, Hodge was never investigated and was instead, quite unbelievably, given the job of Children’s Minster, by Tony Blair.
She is personally responsible for the thousands of children who are stolen from parents each year via the secret court system, where they end up being abuse by VIP filth in care homes.”
The following comment from Brian Barrough was left on a post:
” My memory is beginning to slip but let me tell you what I know.
Tony Blair received a phone call at approx 11.40am from Paul Condon who was in charge of the Met Police, the name Jill was mentioned as was becoming troublesome.
Catholic Blair
Within 3 days she was killed.
Am I going too far to suggest that we know for definite from other witnesses that Tony Blair as Prime Minister had to ok the deaths of his friend Robin Cooke and Dr David Kelly ( and it is suggested Princess Diana too).
Now Cliff Richard was both giving her information and pumping her for what she knew.
Cliff Richard is ‘owned’ by a Jewish showbiz group and when they said you go sing in Israel he had to go, similarly when he heard through the Kay brothers that he was being served up on a plate to the brutal sexual sadist Lord Boothby.
He was not happy and told Jill Dando he was under great pressure. and went to a health clinic for several days.
Now Jill was researching for a programme on the massive sexual abuse of young boys by older men, but she lied to the BBC saying the prog was to do with sexual health of youngsters.
In fact she was in possesion of many names of some very big people, some are known now but many still have to come out.
Tony Blair was worried this info and Jill’s programme would totally undermine Operation Ore, where he had to bring in a D -notice to protect members of hs cabinet in a damage limitation exercise.
He asked Peter Mandelson to take a back seat and sacked Chris smith. Mandelson said if they had to give names to throw Gordon Brown under the bus.
Tony asked for a dirty smear campaign on Jill’s background could be passed to Mossad-controlled Rupert Murdoch so that newspapers would suddenly discover some very unsavoury facts about Jill which would ruin her credibility and she would be sacked.
But the investigation proved she was just a lovely girl and past boyfreinds would say nothing bad even when offered big money to do so.
I believe that to save New Labour, Tony Blair had no choice but to ask for the death of Jill Dando and the police commissioner, Paul Condon agreed “.
Jill Dando’s death also links to the powerful Israeli-lobby who control Britain behind the scenes.
” The highest judge in the land is Lord David Neuberger.
Neuberger
He used to work at N.M Rothschild and Sons and is married to Angela Holdsworth.
He was responsible for evicting the Parliament Square peace campaign.
In May 2011, while commenting on super injunctions, he said that social media sites like Twitter were “totally out of control” and society should consider ways to bring such websites under control.
The phone-hacking judge, Brian Levenson was involved in the trial of Barry George.
Some claim the hacking scandal was a deliberate set-up to clamp down on the media.
Times editor, Danny Finkelstein, is the real power behind the Tories and a top Mossad representative.
He is also a paedophile apologist and wrote the following article, ‘The dead can’t enter a plea of guilty’.
The article appeared to cast doubt on the abuse claims made against Cyril Smith and Jimmy Savile:
” Cyril Smith may have been a monster. But until we have reliable evidence we must not rush to judgment . Can I ask you a question? How do you know, really know, that Jimmy Savile is guilty of child abuse? The truth, let’s face it, is that you don’t. You are like me. You’ve perhaps heard one or two TV interviews with victims. You’ve read the odd article including some fairly damning quotes. You’ve gathered that there is a police investigation and that, as a result, a number of famous people have been arrested, although oddly always in connection with allegations that have nothing to do with Savile.
And, most of all, you’ve heard people say that he always looked a little fishy and that come to think of it it was a dead giveaway that he always waltzed around in one of those gold lamé tracksuits that paedos love to wear. And that hair. And “now then, now then”. He definitely did it.
Let’s take the case of the Liberal MP Cyril Smith…If Cyril Smith committed these crimes then he is a monster. But I am still attached to that vital word “if”. People in this country are innocent until proven guilty. We cling to that notion: it is a life raft, we have to cling to it.
Yes, the police think he is guilty and the police are worthy of respect. But the police always think the people they charge with offences are guilty; that is why they charge them. Policing proceeds by identifying a suspect and then building the strongest possible case against them. And the more time the police spend on the case, the more convinced they become….every innocent person needs to know they live in a society of due process and the rule of law. And that they can die in peace, without being taken to court in their coffin“.
Finkeklstein was fully aware of the child-rape allegations made against Labour peer, Greville Janner, but, for some unknown reason, posted the following tweet:
” Watching Greville Janner in 1970 election prog. Attractive, incisive, intelligent, moderate. How did he not end up one of Lab’s leaders?”
DannytheFink and Greville Janner
The two were also listed together in the JC as being highly influential in their respective fields:
Following the death of Jill Dando, a new research centre in her name was formed:
” The UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science is the first Institute in the world devoted to Crime Science. Research is concentrated on new ways to cut crime and increase security ” .
By a strange twist, the Board of the Institute is run by none other than Nick Ross and Professor Anthony Finkelstein.
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Jill Dando’s death is an unsolved case with many possible suspects, and 20 years later investigators are still unable to find her killer. Ms Dando was a journalist known for regularly presenting the shows Breakfast Time, Breakfast News, the BBC One O'Clock News, and the Six O'Clock News. The Somerset-born presenter was once also voted BBC personality of the year, and her death in 1999 shook the nation. Many details of her death remain under wraps, and the killer has never been found.
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Jill Dando was murdered on the steps of her home in Fulham, on April 26 1999, aged 37.
She was shot in the head on the steps of her property, found minutes later by her neighbour and was declared dead on entry to the nearby Charing Cross hospital.
Investigative journalist Bob Woffinden wrote out the horrifying moments leading to her death in 2002.
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He said: "As Dando was about to put her keys in the lock to open the front door of her home in Fulham, she was grabbed from behind.
“With his right arm, the assailant held her and forced her to the ground, so that her face was almost touching the tiled step of the porch.
“Then, with his left hand, he fired a single shot at her left temple, killing her instantly.
“The bullet entered her head just above her ear, parallel to the ground, and came out the right side of her head."
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Barry George was cleared of murdering Jill Dando (Image: GETTY)
Two years later in July 2001, Barry George was wrongly convicted for her murder.
After serving eight years in prison, judges overturned the ruling and released Mr George, who was convicted on “remarkably thin” evidence, according to Mr Woffinden.
Ms Dando’s killer was never found, although many theories still remain about her murder.
Hamish Campbell, lead inspector on the inquiry into Ms Dando’s death believes the real killer may never be found.
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Jill Dando's murder remains unsolved (Image: GETTY)
He said: “Do I think somebody will come back to court? Probably not, no.
“Sometimes I felt we were a day away from solving it and other times, I thought: ‘No, we’re a long way away.’
“We had over 2,000 people named as potential suspects or responsible. Some actions to trace and eliminate one person might take a day.
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“There is no doubt Jill was assassinated by a professional hitman. It is now nearly 20 years since she was murdered and that individual has remained completely under the radar.
“The gun has never been recovered. Nothing else has come in circulation. That shows you the quality of this person.”
Without referring to Mr Williams-Thomas, Scotland Yard said officers would welcome any new information about the murder.
A spokeswoman said: “The Metropolitan Police fully investigated the circumstances of the murder of Jill Dando. Two trials took place and the investigation was subject to an internal review. If any new information comes to our attention then this will be investigated.”
Born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, Ms Dando worked on a local paper before joining BBC Radio Devon as a newsreader.
She later moved to national television and was already one of the BBC’s best known presenters when she moved to Crimewatch in 1995.
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According to the retired BBC worker, the Crimewatch host was told that DJs, stars and corporation staff were involved in organised abuse.
But when she tried to get bosses to investigate the alleged ring and other abuse complaints inside the BBC “no one wanted to know”, the former friend said.
Undeterred, Jill is said to have then raised the claims with senior management in the mid-1990s but no investigation took place.
The TV host was shot dead a few years later on the doorstep of her London home. The 37-year-old’s murder remains unsolved.
Her ex-colleague, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I don’t recall the names of all the stars now and don’t really want to implicate anyone but Jill said they were surprisingly big names.
“I think she was quite shocked when told about images of children and that information on how to join this horrible paedophile ring was freely available.
“Jill said others had complained to her about sexual matters and that some fellow female workmates also claimed they had been groped or assaulted.
“Nothing had been done and there seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye.”
“There seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye”
The source told how female colleagues went to Jill, who was then one of the best-known faces on TV.
She said: “I think it was in the mid 1990s, Jill was working on almost everything then including Crimewatch and Holiday.
“She was seen as the face of the BBC and a magnet for women with problems.
“She compiled a file of complaints but she was not really an investigative journalist, just a presenter.
“She passed the information to someone else and they gave it back. No one wanted to know.
“I do remember that she gave a file to senior management. I don’t think she heard any more.
By Don Hale / Published 21st July 2014
jill dando, bbc, crimewatch host, retired, paedophile, bbc, abuse, saville, clifford, rolf harrisTRAGEDY: Jill Dando told bosses about claims of sexual abuse [BBC]
According to the retired BBC worker, the Crimewatch host was told that DJs, stars and corporation staff were involved in organised abuse.
But when she tried to get bosses to investigate the alleged ring and other abuse complaints inside the BBC “no one wanted to know”, the former friend said.
Undeterred, Jill is said to have then raised the claims with senior management in the mid-1990s but no investigation took place.
The TV host was shot dead a few years later on the doorstep of her London home. The 37-year-old’s murder remains unsolved.
Her ex-colleague, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I don’t recall the names of all the stars now and don’t really want to implicate anyone but Jill said they were surprisingly big names.
“I think she was quite shocked when told about images of children and that information on how to join this horrible paedophile ring was freely available.
“Jill said others had complained to her about sexual matters and that some fellow female workmates also claimed they had been groped or assaulted.
“Nothing had been done and there seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye.”
“There seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye”
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The source told how female colleagues went to Jill, who was then one of the best-known faces on TV.
She said: “I think it was in the mid 1990s, Jill was working on almost everything then including Crimewatch and Holiday.
“She was seen as the face of the BBC and a magnet for women with problems.
“She compiled a file of complaints but she was not really an investigative journalist, just a presenter.
“She passed the information to someone else and they gave it back. No one wanted to know.
“I do remember that she gave a file to senior management. I don’t think she heard any more.
“Other women who complained told Jill they didn’t want to risk their careers by making official statements against individuals as they would lose their jobs and that bosses seemed to ignore it.
“We all decided the best way was to keep our heads down and to always try to go somewhere with a colleague.”
The BBC said it would look into the allegations but added: “We have not seen anything to substantiate these claims.” Presenters Liz Kershaw and Miriam O’Reilly have both made allegations of sexual harassment at the BBC.
After Jimmy Savile was exposed as a paedophile and serial sex attacker in 2012, fellow BBC presenter Sally Jones spoke of how he had tried to grope her in a lift.
She confi ded in Jill after the attack, adding that the Crimewatch host said “she had had to fend off plenty of unwelcome advances herself”.
Sally said Jill told her Savile was “just a dirty old perv”.
Jill was shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham in 1999.
Barry George was found guilty of her murder in 2001 but his conviction was quashed in 2008.
Second hour Investigative reports: twenty years on, commemoration Jill Dando murder and subsequent framing of Barry George: MOTIVE, with investigative journalist Don Hale; MEANS and OPPORTUNITY with firearms expert Gerry Coulter; this week’s appalling and insulting BBC1 ‘commemorative’ programme; ‘The Murder of Jill Dando’ – much better amateur documentary: The Jill Dando Web
Interview with Don Hale, author of many books and award winning investigative journalist – Don’s original Jill Dando article – he discusses how Jill Dando was accumulating information on a paedophile and sexual abuse ring of about five or six employees within the BBC that included Britain’s most prolific paedophile Jimmy Savile – how senior BBC managers didn’t want to know, and how shortly before her death she and other staff received death threats: senior police at MET didn’t want to know – leads ignored by police; Man with learning difficulties Barry George fitted up by DI Hamish Campbell leading to a miscarriage of justice; this week’s appalling and insulting ’20th anniversary commemoration’ TV documentary ‘The Murder of Jill Dando’; current national VIPaedophile inquiry into child sex abuse (IICSA) once again kicking the investigation of these elite criminals into the long grass – Don Hale gave evidence to IICSA but was cross-examined in what he describes as a ‘hostile environment’; he interviewed whistleblowers from MI5, the MET, and Special Branch requesting immunity from the Official Secrets Act (OSA) – Theresa May did nothing so these whistleblowers have not been able to testify; Northampton police gave false evidence against Don; Don’s KGB source had info on honeytraps but was shocked to find key people weren’t interested in women,they wanted sex with boys and young men, so they spied on the Westminster paedophiles and built up a large file on Westminster VIPaedophiles; Don’s latest book is ‘Murder in the Graveyard’; www.donhale.co.uk;
18:44 AEDT 29 Dec 2000 , updated 21:09 AEDT 01 Jan 2001
The first director of a crime-fighting institute founded in memory of murdered TV presenter Jill Dando has been appointed.
Criminologist Gloria Laycock will be director of the Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science, based at University College London. Jill's fiance, Alan Farthing, announced her appointment.
Ms Laycock, 53, has worked at the Home Office, the Prison Service and is now on secondment to the Justice Department in Washington DC.
She will also become the first Jill Dando Professor of Crime Science when she formally takes up the post on the second anniversary of Jill's death on April 26 next year.
The popular TV presenter was shot dead on her doorstep in Fulham. Barry Bulsara, 40, from west London, is due to stand trial, accused of her murder.
The institute will be the world's first academic centre devoted exclusively to funding and promoting practical means to prevent and detect crime.
It has received backing from Prime Minister Tony Blair and Home Secretary Jack Straw as well as leading police figures.
Ms Laycock's appointment comes just eight months after the launch of an appeal fund set up to establish the institute. Applications for the post were received from around the world.
Mr Farthing, who chairs the Jill Dando Fund, said: "Nothing could do more to symbolise everything Jill stood for. With wonderful support from the public, we have transformed the tragedy of her death into the most positive thing imaginable."
Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police commissioner and a trustee of the Jill Dando Fund, said: "Police everywhere will look to the new institute for fresh ideas and fresh approaches. This is exactly what police need, not just here in the UK but everywhere around the world."
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary have previously given their strong support to the institute.
Mr Blair said: "I can think of no better way to pay tribute to Jill than continuing the work she cared about so much, defending victims and potential victims of crime.
"The Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science is an exciting development to bring talented people together across a whole range of disciplines to create a world centre of excellence and to stimulate a range of new solutions to crime."
Home Secretary Jack Straw said: "Jill Dando brought so much sparkle to life - such integrity and warmth. Out of the tragedy of her death we can create something which will be of real benefit to everyone."
Professor Chris Llewellyn Smith, provost and president of UCL, said: "Departments across UCL are eager to contribute to the work of the new institute and to learn from it. Crime science is an inspiring innovation, which has excited colleagues around the world."
Nick Ross, Jill's former co-presenter, who promoted the idea of crime science, said: "This will help change the face of crime investigation. The Jill Dando Institute will be a world centre for inspiring and testing out new ideas.
"This is the place business will look to for help in designing crime-free products and services. This is what the police have been so keen to see - a resource where they can find new approaches to managing and detecting crime." _________________ --
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