London police to review archive footage in Jill Dando murder case — The Guardian

London police in the United Kingdom are re-examining 27-year-old CCTV recordings in the unsolved murder case of BBC presenter Jill Dando. Technical capabilities to improve video quality have enabled investigators to return to footage from Putney Bridge underground station, The Guardian reports.

Review of archive video

Scotland Yard stressed that the analysis of the recordings is part of ongoing investigative work, rather than the launch of a new investigation or a key line of inquiry in the case. According to a police spokesperson, the investigation has been reviewed repeatedly over 27 years to determine whether technological and forensic advances could help move the case forward.

Jill Dando, who was 37, was shot dead near her home in Fulham, west London, on 26 April 1999. An unidentified man, referred to in case files as Man X, was captured by a camera near Putney Bridge station, about a mile from the presenter’s home, shortly after the attack.

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Testimony and previous assessments

As the Mirror wrote, a female driver saw a man running very fast on Fulham Palace Road at approximately the time of the shooting. She later identified Man X in footage from the station as the person she had seen then.

Dando presented the programme Crimewatch and also worked on other BBC projects, including Holiday and The Antiques Inspectors. She began her career as a reporter for the local newspaper The Weston Mercury in Weston-super-Mare, before moving to the morning programme Breakfast Time, which later became BBC Breakfast.

In 2019, Hamish Campbell, who led the investigation, expressed doubt in a BBC documentary that new people would be charged in the case. According to him, law enforcement officers considered more than 2,000 people as potential suspects or individuals connected to the crime.