Jill Dando murder: Key witness identifies Serbian assassin | EXCLUSIVE

Jill dando was one of Britain's biggest TV  stars when she was shot dead on her doorstep   just after 11:30 a.m. on Monday April the 26th  1999 there something collapsed um confidentially   it looks like it's Jill D that woman has  been identified as jel dando the television   presenter her murder remains unsolved 25  years on a Daily Mirror investigation has   found that CCTV of a man police wanted  to question who we have called Man X   matches the features of a Serbian secret  Services assassin the smartly dressed man   was pictured shortly after the shooting acting  suspiciously on the gunman's suspected Escape   Route a facial comparison expert has now found  a number of similarities between Man X and the   Serbian double convicted murderer Milad ulch the  mirror can now also reveal that detectives on the   Jill dando case waited nearly a year before they  began searching for a man who a key witness said   she saw running for his life from the murder  scene I was absolutely absolutely certain and   there was no doubt it wasn't like oh I think it's  him it was definitely him since this interview the   key witness has identified the man she saw  running from the Jill dando murder scene as   ruthless Serbian assassin millad ulch reacting  to the recent Mir investigation that compared   similarities between Man X and ulch the witness  said it's him asked if she was sure she added   yes I've no doubt I'm a bit rattled it was a long  time ago but I can remember faces from years and   years back I'm bad for remembering names but I'm  good with faces I think I need to speak to the police on the morning of April 26th 1999 Jill  dando was spotted on multiple occasions shopping   on CCTV before making her way home to her dress in  Fulham at approximately 11:30 a.m. she walked to   her door at 29 Gowan Avenue the killer approached  from behind and she was shot in the back of the   head killing her instantly a suspect is then seen  by neighbors running towards Fulham Palace Road   at approximately 11:37 a man is seen almost  getting run over by a small white car he then   runs along Fulham Palace Road in the direction of  Bishop's Park a driver then sees a man running for   his life at around the same time a Ford transit  driver screeches to a stop as he travels South he   narrowly misses the man who runs across the road  and into Bishop's park at approximately 11:40   a witness sees a sweating man in a dark suit  at the bus stop outside of 389 Fulham Palace   Road shortly before a number 74 bus picks up the  sweating man at 11:46 he asks for Putney Bridge   station then at approximately 11:5 5 the sweating  man gets off the 74 bus at Putney Bridge station   finally at midday a man in a suit is captured  on CCTV in Putney Bridge station according to   a witness statement in May 1999 a man is seen  going through the ticket barrier the witness   says it is the same man she saw running along  Fulham Palace road I was absolutely absolutely   certain and there was no doubt it wasn't like  oh I think it's him it was definitely him   police files show officers had images of the  Man known as n6 814 2 weeks after Jill's murder   and he was identified by the witness within a  month but records show it was not until 2:13   p.m. on April the 7th 2000 the action 8990 was  issued calling for the individual to be traced   interviewed and eliminated the witness was  told about the delay for the first time this   month I absolutely got slacked oh my my God  are you joking that is absolutely shocking   how did they expect to find even begin to try  and find somebody that had been seen a year previously that's crazy you're never going to  that's crazy the female motorist who is asked   to remain anonymous was one of four Witnesses  who described seeing a man in a suit sprinting   up the filam palace Road in the direction of  Putney Bridge Tube Station shortly after the   murder of Jill dando detective said that he fitted  the description of a sweating man who got on the   74 bus on the same road a short time later and  was heard talking on a mobile phone the female   motorist said she realized she might have seen  something significant on the day of the murder   when she got home from work I said to my mom  oh my God I was there like I was in I was in   FM today and then uh came in sort of watched  a bit more sort of watch some of the news and   they said about um a suspect or or somebody they  were interested him that have been like fleeing   had anybody seen anybody fleeing the scene or  you know dressed in dark clothing with you know   and gave and gave a brief description and I said  to my mom oh my God I actually think I might have   seen that person in her first statement given  the next day the woman said she was driving   north up the fulam palace Road when she saw a  man running for his life on the far pavement   files show that a month later on May 24th she  was asked to return to look at CCTV stills from   partney bridge Tube Station looked through oh my  God it seemed like hundreds there was like lots   and lots and lots of people it looked like it was  at a tube station at a kind of ticket machine um   saw the person that I saw running out the  road um identified them pointed them out   he didn't really sort of say anything and I like  left she got a call later that afternoon asking   her to come back the next day the woman said she  was shown the CCTV of Travelers passing through   the ticket barriers at partney Bridge Tube Station  looking through lots and lots and lots of people   again saw the person and was like that's them  then it kind of got a bit shocking so the guy   goes to the barrier looked like it had like a  travel card to me put it in walked through the   barrier walked about three steps maybe stop  dead look straight up at the CCTV camera and   walk straight back out the tube station looked  very very bizarre really stood out looked very   strange I said to the police officer oh my God  have you actually seen this have you just seen   have you seen this have you you seen what this guy  has kind of done like rewind it back look at this   this is like weird what's going on he was like not  interested very dismissive he was like yeah yeah   we seen all that you know he just really wasn't  interested I was like okay nothing much I can   say to that the records show that the witness  saw the man enter the barriers at 34 seconds   past 12 and walking back towards the exit at 36  seconds passed but the next mention of n6 814 in   the files comes nearly a year later on March 15th  200000 when a CCTV image of him is published in   an internal police magazine the police Gazette  rather than timed at just after midday as the   images were in the statements in May 1999 the man  is now timed as being in Putney Bridge station at   1153 a.m. this would have made it difficult for  him to be the man seen getting on the 74 bus as   said in May 1999 that he exited at Putney Bridge  station bus stop at approximately 11:55 it is a   2-minute walk from the bus stop to the station a  met inspector said in a statement in July 2000 due   to a number of reasons including the difference  in appearance from earlier description given the   timings and also the actions of this person it was  decided not to issue this picture to the media The   Mirror Has tested the route to see if the 11:53  arrival time at Putney Bridge Tube Station was   possible we know the sweating man got on the bus  at 11:46 a.m. and the 11:55 a.m. arrival time at   the bus stop is an approximation we took the 74  bus from the same location on Fulham Palace Road   at around midday on a weekday this month it took  us around 5 minutes and 30 seconds from getting   on the bus to entering Putney Bridge Tube Station  in moderate traffic and with one stop in between   which let passengers on this means that if the  updated police time of 11:53 a.m. was in fact   accurate the possible Escape Route was still  achievable the Met police provided no comment   when we approached them on the change of timings  in regards to the CCTV it comes as the mirror   recently revealed that a facial comparison expert  has found no differences between the features of   n684 Man X and Serbian convicted assassin Milad  ulch but certified forensic video analyst Emmy   Pito who gives expert evidence for the police  could only give limited support to them being the   same man because of the poor image quality however  the witness who saw the Running Man and linked it   to the CCTV at Putney Bridge station said when  seeing an image of ulch for the first time it's   him I'm completely and utterly adamant that is  one and the same person that I saw run down the road for

Channel: The Mirror

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Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024