Spot-checks are to be stepped up to ensure tickets for disabled Manchester United fans do not end up in the wrong hands, the club says.
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Fingerprints which were hoped to hold a vital clue in the Jill Dando murder case have never been identified. The marks were reportedly left by a "crazy" man on a traffic light post as he sprinted away from the murder scene.
His movements were watched by a dog walker. The witness stated that the mystery runner narrowly avoided being hit by a car as he dashed in front of traffic near to the popular BBC Crimewatch presenter's home in Fulham, West London, where a neighbour saw the gunman running.
The revelation that the fingerprints were never identified has been exposed by the Mirror today, as the 25th anniversary of Jill's death approaches. The dog walker said he crossed Gowan Avenue, the street where Jill lived, at the junction of the Fulham Palace Road.
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It was around 11.37am on April 26, 1999, after the witness had placed a bet at a bookies. He said in a police statement: “I then noticed a man running across the pelican crossing, he was about one to two yards from my side of the road.
“I was aware that the bleeper had stopped sounding. I noticed that the cars on the far side of the road had started to move. I thought, ‘He’s not going to make it,’ but he just kept on running across.”
The witness said it was “strange” this man in a dark suit was “so determined to get across the road”. A car braked hard and the man lost his balance and grabbed the railings or traffic light post. The witness added: “I was thinking to myself, ‘What’s he running for?’ I looked and could see no bus coming.”
While waiting to cross with a woman, one of them said “he must be crazy”, the statement revealed. Finger and palm marks were later found on the post, 70in from the
Spot-checks are to be stepped up to ensure tickets for disabled Manchester United fans do not end up in the wrong hands, the club says.
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