Where is jill dando grave

JILL Dando was the nation's sweetheart, until her life was brutally cut short one spring morning in Here's what you need to know about the much-loved TV presenter's life and untimely death But as Jill reached her front door at about am, she was shot once in the head. Jill was taken to the nearby Charing Cross Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival at pm.

During the murder investigation the police turned their attention to Barry George , who lived about half a mile from Dando's house. He had a history of stalking women, sexual offences and other antisocial and attention seeking behaviour. He was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted, and on July 2, , was sentenced to life imprisonment. Concern about this conviction was widespread on the basis that the case against George appeared thin.

Two appeals were unsuccessful, but after discredited forensics evidence was excluded from the prosecution's case, George's third appeal succeeded in November Pledging to get into shape, he has somehow found sufficient funds to join an upmarket gym, but is said to be 'too self-conscious' to attend.

He lives in a hostel in East London with 12 other men. Although he sometimes attends a friend's party or sips cider in his local pub, George rarely socialises with his fellow residents. Very occasionally, he goes fishing alone. But he usually rides to a bookshop or library to research the two interlinking topics that constantly gnaw away at his mind: proving his innocence beyond any doubt.

Even though he has been cleared, he is still trying to show that the police lied [when they claimed to have found a speck of gunfire residue in his coat pocket, matching that found on Jill].

He is convinced he once saw a picture of armed police officers about to raid his house on the day he was arrested, and spends hours searching for it. He has joined the British Library to go through their archives. The Met has always denied that the officers were carrying weapons, but George is sure this 'missing picture' will prove otherwise - and back his theory that the mysterious particle could have come from their weapons.

To aid his quest, he has just bought a new Samsung laptop, but despite doing a computer course in prison he is having trouble connecting it to the internet. Most evenings, therefore, he lounges on the couch, eating and reading the books and legal files about the Dando murder. Either that or he watches TV. The X Factor and Coronation Street are his favourites.

He cycles to Fulham where he used to live, though whether he has been to 29 Gowan Avenue, where Jill lived, is a matter of dispute, even among his friends. George is said to hotly deny it. Another topic that agitates him is the film that is supposedly being made about his life.

It is reported that Mark Benton, the bulky actor who features comically in the Nationwide ads, has been lined up to play George, but as George has not co- operated he fears he will be misrepresented.

Friends say George's weight has ballooned as a result of his addiction to take-away food. All these worries are said to have made George very depressed of late. However, Charig says his spirits are buoyed by the reaction of strangers he meets in the street. He likes being the centre of attention. Another man I know wanted to invite him to dinner, but his teenage daughters were too frightened to have him in the house. Despite George's conviction, in , for the attempted rape of a year-old student, and his artless courtroom admission - that he couldn't have killed Jill because he was stalking another woman at the time - Mr Charig has no doubt that he is a harmless, vulnerable 'victim' who deserves sympathy and protection.

Given his frayed emotions for which he takes sedatives one might have thought George would welcome being the subject of the MAPPA, a Ministry of Justice scheme under which a team of police, probation and prison officers watch over him, tend to his needs, and enlist psychologists and other experts to provide help when he needs it. But as he was acquitted of murder and his sexual assault conviction is more than 25 years old, he has been advised that the law in his case is a grey area and he may not have to accept this constant monitoring, which he sometimes finds intrusive.

So now, according to Mr Singh Clair, he has instructed his lawyer to challenge the MAPPA in the courts, further lengthening his shopping list of litigation.

When George was released, he lamented his lost years with a childlike poignancy that momentarily made us forget his unsavoury past.

Who knows what I could have achieved? But what does his future really hold? Though he spoke at first of finding tranquillity away from London, perhaps in Scotland, he now intends to spend his compensation on a house in his old stalking ground in Fulham, if the money stretches that far.

Pitiably, he has also set his heart on rekindling one of his many fanciful early ambitions - to be a top film stunt man. According to a friend, however, the daredevil who once tried to jump over four double-decker buses on roller-skates has set his comeback sights rather lower. He's determined to get fit enough for it, and he plans to invite Sky TV to come and cover it.

If George runs true to form, his invitation will most likely be addressed to Miss Burley in person. His new favourite TV presenter will doubtless politely decline. But George has plenty more irons in the fire - or, at least, so he boasts.

Unlikely as it may sound, Charig says George told him he recently received tender messages from Itsuko Toide, the Japanese bride of convenience who once accused him of assaulting her during their brief marriage in Mr Singh Clair says this is utterly untrue. Stoking the speculation about George's private life with relish, however, he says: 'I can tell you there is somebody new, though.

I think there have been three or four meetings. But I'm always cautious of these people because she obviously knows who Barry is and that he's going to get a lot of money. He's been advised to be careful and keep himself in check. We don't want him in some kind of trap. Perish the thought. For the Dando family's sake, we must hope that Barry Michael George receives similarly sound advice before he boards the train to Weston- super-Mare, armed with a big bouquet.

The family had chosen two charities for donations, Weston Hospicecare and the British Heart Foundation. Jill also had particularly close links with the BHF following her hole in the heart operation when she was a child.

The murder is to feature in an appeal on the Crimewatch programme she presented, the BBC said yesterday. An item on the killing will open next Tuesday's edition of Crimewatch UK, hosted by Nick Ross, with an appeal focusing on sightings in Fulham and Putney of men police would like to come forward to assist the investigation. Actors will be used in reconstructions aimed at jogging the memory of witnesses, but there will be no scenes featuring a Jill Dando look-alike.

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