About Jill Dando
Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation's Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her television work included co-presenting the BBC One programme Crimewatch with Nick Ross. On the morning of 26 April 1999, Dando was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, London, prompting the biggest murder inquiry ever conducted by the Metropolitan Police and the country's largest criminal investigation since the Peter Sutcliffe case. A local man, Barry George, was convicted and imprisoned for the murder, but was acquitted eight years later following an appeal and retrial. No other suspect has been charged, and the case remains unsolved. Dando's first job was as a trainee reporter for the local weekly newspaper, the Weston Mercury, where her father and brother worked. On 25 April 1999, Dando presented the first episode of Antiques Inspectors. When she was three years old, it was discovered that she had a hole in her heart and a blocked pulmonary artery. Her body was discovered by neighbours, who called police at 11:47.
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