British actor Mark Strong (Kingsman) has signed on to star opposite Joel Kinnaman in the action thriller The Silent Hour for AGC Studios and Meridian Pictures.
18.10.2022 - 15:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
In 1999, Britain was rocked as a well-known and popular public figure was gunned down on her doorstep in what would become one of the country’s most notorious unsolved murders. On the morning of April 26, Jill Dando was shot and killed outside her home in London, aged 37.
The investigation that followed became the Metropolitan Police’s biggest murder inquiry to date and the largest criminal investigation since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. One man was eventually jailed for the murder, before being acquitted and released years later.
To this day, authorities have no definitive answers around the killing – though countless theories have circulated in the years since.
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Jill Dando was a journalist and television presenter, best known for hosting BBC News and Crimewatch. She had worked for the BBC throughout most of her career, and won the broadcaster’s Personality of the Year award in 1997.
On April 26, 1999, at around 11.30am, Dando was killed by a single bullet to the head on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, south-west London. She is thought to have died instantly.
Her body was discovered by a neighbour 14 minutes later, her keys still in her hand. Dando was taken to nearby Charing Cross Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival at 1.03pm.
Her next-door neighbour reported seeing a man – described as tall and aged around 40 – walking away from the scene, which is thought to be the only sighting of her alleged killer. Police took thousands of statements and investigated around 2,000 possible suspects, but only one was ever put on trial.
Barry George, who lived less than half a mile from Dando’s home was arrested for
British actor Mark Strong (Kingsman) has signed on to star opposite Joel Kinnaman in the action thriller The Silent Hour for AGC Studios and Meridian Pictures.
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