Jill Dando

Jill Dando was a famous television presenter and newsreader. On 26th April 1999, she was shot outside her home with a single gunshot. Was her work on BBC Crimewatch to blame?

The shooting of Jill Dando is forever etched in my memory. It happened at a time when big changes were happening in my own life, which is one of those circumstances that had nothing to do with the crime but everything to do with my memory of it. I had just left Manchester as a fresh-faced university graduate in the north of England, and moved down to Lo…