The Murder of Jill Dando - ITV News Special Tribute Aired on Day of Reporter's Death (1999)

On 26 April 1999, BBC journalist and Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando was murdered on the front doorstep of her home in Fulham, London. That evening, ITV News aired a special bulletin in tribute to Ms Dando, who was praised by grieving colleagues and contemporaries across the industry. As well as hearing from those mourning Ms Dando, the programme also recorded real-time developments in the investigation into her death. They broadcast the description of the man believed to be responsible for Dando's killing and who continues to elude capture to this day. They also interrupted the bulletin to share the breaking news that Ms Dando had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. That evening's 20-minute ITV Evening News bulletin served both to celebrate Dando's work as a respected reporter and support appeals for information that might assist the investigation into her death.
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[@jasondarcy4089]

I didn't know ITN dedicated a programme to her. That's a very great honour.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I can’t believe it’s been 25 years

[@lordrobert12]

She looks like Princess Diana!!❤❤❤ Beautiful lady!!❤❤❤❤

[@barrytyler]

The description of the male as “carrrying a mobile phone”! How times have changed. That would be everyone now.

[@northernking2604]

1999 we were still using the big box computers

[@kate_cooper]

Jill wasn't repeatedly stabbed while screaming for help. She was shot once in the head and had no time to scream at all and the neighbours only found her after she was already dead. Their statements about finding her and getting help have been completely misrepresented. Typical journalists.

[@jimmydonnycosgrove2639]

She screamed because the murderer pushed his gun against his head, with so much rigour it left a mark on her. So yes, she screamed

[@SpeccyHorace]

She did have time to scream actually.

[@westminsterwatcher5152]

Beyond tragic!

[@drips1030]

The killer will never be found because she was taken out to keep her mouth shut. Loose lips and all that.

[@Black.Sabbath]

The killer was nothing to do with her, just a bought assassin.

[@Dbdbe1]

You have no evidence for this conspiracy theory which is now trotted out all the time without justification

[@wrexham1983]

25 years to the day very sad Still a quarter of a century on they still haven’t found her killer :-(

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

Why would they use a psychotherapist to explain a stalkers behaviour on the same day as Jill's murder/tribute programme? Were they deliberately trying to seed the notion before hounding Barry George as a prerequisite. They hadn't completed or eliminated Jill's ex partners yet either. Strange?

[@ronr-mt1vj]

What a silly comment. Barry was not even the first person arrested in the case, in fact he was not even question until a year after the murder. Your claiming itv news was part of a murder conspiracy less then 6 hour after Jill Dando was shot . Get a grip son .

[@DeeDerry]

We all know why 👀

[@shazanali692]

They blamed on some disabled dude, i knew someone that worked in the prisons in the 80s and 90s and he told me one thing, there are alot of folks with learning difficulties in prison for murders he came across and when you saw the rap sheet it was clear as day that that person was not the murderer, everyone knew. Sad corrupt cops😢

[@TheRollthedice]

yes i met barry some years ago...and like you say i knew within 2 seconds he would not have murdered somebody the way it was portrayed....utter madness

[@cerileannewallace9387]

She's Was Wonderful TV Presenter ❤🥹😢

[@Daveymallon]

She was very very close to the truth on some heavy heavyweight names.

[@DeanMoxley87]

Indeed, I've read over the years, she was basically Operation Yewtree before it was a thing

[@Bungle-UK]

No doubt had dirt of the perverts at the BBC.

[@Dbdbe1]

Yeah, yeah. Where’s the evidence for this conspiracy theory?

[@user-qj5hv6gg5w]

I remember when she was killled she was on the tv the night before in a new program.

[@rajnirvan3336]

I remember hearing this at college by one of my teachers and was shocked. Also this was also Martyn Lewis 1st time back on ITN for years

[@EssexNonLeague]

This was just days before he left the BBC, when the news had its major overhaul.

[@rajnirvan3336]

@@EssexNonLeague oh yeah he did moved back to ITV for a bit. Remember also presented ITN at 50 too in 2005

[@EssexNonLeague]

He was leaving the BBC, as, for the forthcoming news relaunch that saw Huw Edwards get his big break, Martyn was being demoted to BBC News 24, and he decided to quit instead. A bit of a limp end to a 13 year BBC career, when his hiring from ITN to launch the new 1 O'Clock News was a big deal, plus was the face of the rolling Princess Diana coverage just 18 months before Jill's murder - ironic seeing Jill in some of the coverage that day.

[@rajnirvan3336]

@@EssexNonLeague I remember when he joined BBC from ITN. Peter Sissons followed after

[@Bungle-UK]

@@EssexNonLeaguepervy Huw 😂

[@axismundi8]

Great documentary called Kill Jill: the Dando assassination.

[@garyhunt8067]

Gone too soon 😔 😢 😢 😢

[@brianyoung6256]

Nobody was ever found guilty

[@adamwithey8194]

This year, it's the 25th anniversary of #JillDando's murder. She was 37. It was on 26th April 1999. #RIPJill #RIPJillDando (09 november 1961-26 april 1999)

[@user-qj5hv6gg5w]

It was a Monday

[@adamwithey8194]

@@user-qj5hv6gg5w yes

[@rolandcollins7386]

I was at work and I came back from lunch and someone told me about Jill Dando being found, I thought that they would catch the killer, especially as it was in broad daylight

[@TT77TTT]

She was nice, thoroughly nicer

[@user-DANWALKER1066]

It’s a bit like Veronica Guerin both cases they should have had police protection

[@Bungle-UK]

Vorderman putting on quite a performance there, no doubt thinking of future career oportunities.

[@ianstrange5674]

@Bungle-UK Horribly cynical.

[@bravesoul5743]

How come she resembles Princess Sophie?😮

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

I don't think Barry George owned a mobile phone. So why did they hound him from the get-go.

[@Onmysheet]

To obtain a conviction.

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

@@Onmysheet the killer also deliberately modified the gun and bullet, lowering sound bar and flash emissions. Using cordite as a dissipation technique to eliminate any gunpowder odour. This isn't Barry George thinking about doing something like that. This is something completely different.

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

@@Onmysheet the killer had to shoot Jill at close range too. Because there wasn't enough gunpowder in the projectile to penetrate Jill from a distance. Again , beyond Barry George's comprehension.

[@BossySwan]

RIP Jan Dilldo

[@rolandcollins7386]

I remember that

[@rolandcollins7386]

No it’s gone very fast

[@seanbonella]

Cover up and the cops were in on it

[@21_f_aus]

Very diturbing that they still haven't found her killer... I hope they finally catch him, if he's still alive that is, even if he isn't it'll givesome sort of closure to all that knew her and her family...

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

He's probably reading your comment.

[@seanbonella]

That you dandos murderer???​@@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022

[@JamieSMB]

I remember the shock of when this happened. Those Crimewatch e-fits and telling us not to have nightmares, you'd close your eyes and see those efit faces.

[@dalebenton3354]

Im wonder if they ever find her killer,I remember this being on the news back in 1999,Also makes me wonder where time goes so quick,After all these years gone by,Still not found her killer yet,Well some ones knows about it and been keeping it well secret all these years,Well the truth will come out one day,Some one will be in deep sh++ for it,Be doing a lot of time behind bars

[@njsservices683]

If you really paying a tribute how come you not exposing her ties to Jimmy Saville and the Royal Family

[@user-qj5hv6gg5w]

Keep your horrible comments to yourself

[@pmajudge]

😇😢✝. R.I.P. JILL DANDO. IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE.💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹. 25th ANNIVERSARY REALLY ?? I THOUGHT JILL DANDO WAS SHOT ??? NOT STABBED???? REALLY ??? 🤔🙄😒. GOSH ! MY MEMORY SLACKING ! BLESS MS. JILL DANDO . FROM, U.K. (2024).

[@TomSanderson100]

This must have been incredibly difficult for all the journalists even someone as experienced as Sir Trevor McDonald

[@shellsbignumber2]

Am I hearing correct? Does he say ' Ghastly heroic nature ' If so, what a strange turn of phrase. 8:34. There was something more then met the eye about this assassination imo.

[@zaftra]

4:03, greatass, great assests - dayum trev.

[@serendipityorzemblanitychoice]

Killer still on the run!

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

Indeed

[@cobbyone]

or dead

[@davemcmahon4045]

@@cobbyone I've heard rumours it was Savile

[@rolandcollins7386]

I think they were friends

[@glennhosick1514]

Such a sad loss of an absolutely beautiful lady.😢 A very hea❤rt felt tribute from Carol. ... I never forget watching a holiday programme jill was presenting. She was wearing a lovely summer yellow top.&. looking absolutely stunningly beautiful! So much so that a guy across the opposite side of the road! Was very much captivated by Jill. .&. he walked straight into a pole caught on camera. 😂😂

[@Black.Sabbath]

She knew too much

[@davemcmahon4045]

@Black.Sabbath I heard rumour she was going to expose Savile

[@Black.Sabbath]

4:41 7:10 🍑🤏🏻 9:50 You’d know, Carol

[@northernking2604]

Did they ever catch the guy?

[@kate_cooper]

No. They arrested the wrong guy, he spent eight years in prison before someone else proved pretty conclusively that he didn't do it, and he was set free. By that time, the real killer had vanished into thin air and is now very unlikely to ever be found.

[@northernking2604]

@@kate_cooper strange...

[@Lilaplaytime]

She was about to blow up jimmy Saville

[@LavitaWilliams-tf6mp]

No it was a hit. She knew major information. So someone was told to take her out

[@stephenbain389]

I'm not convinced by this. According to those who knew her and worked with her no one said she seemed especially concerned, anxious or preoccupied. If she was trying to expose something big you'd think there would be a change in her behaviour.

[@buakawfan333]

​@@stephenbain389unless....she was good at keeping secrets?

[@Bungle-UK]

Secrets about BBC perverts

[@Black.Sabbath]

@@stephenbain389 Because she didn’t know…

[@stephenbain389]

@Black.Sabbath supposedly she said some bloke was "pestering her" but that's quite vague and could be anybody given how big she was at the time of her death. If it was something she knew about, I don't get the impression she was in any way concerned for her own personal safety (which you would think would be the case if she was trying to expose dark secrets). The cctv footage taken at the shopping centres on the morning of her murder just show her going about her business as normal.

[@user-lx7dt8ly8x]

I thought that Jill dando was shot with a gun, not stabbed with a knife?

[@Horatio-Nelson]

Interesting. A quarter of a century after the event, all of 53 positive clicks and a massive figure of 1310 "visits" have been registered for this webvideo. Interesting indeed. What intrigues me though is this. Great play was made here and elsewhere of the matrimonial intentions of Ms. Dando and her fiancé. Both Ms. Dando and Dr. Farthing have demonstrated considerable ambitiousness in their respective careers. Thus, the question arises in my mind as to what the chances would be for the success of an alliance of two such hitherto driven characters as these. Considering retention of the fruits of Dr. Farthing's achievements and, extremely significant, of his spectacular contacts, and pairing these with the undeniable advancement aspirations of a Ms. Dando, the question presents itself as to whether or how long their marriage may have endured.

[@xy1745]

Wasn't the video uploaded just 17 hours ago? It's an archive channel. All uploads are old.

[@Chimp981]

Royalty had her offed because she was going to reveal the truth about Saville and his royal cronies 🤡🙄🥱

[@nigelipad]

Was the murder caught ?

[@user-ss4xe6ic6i]

А кто она такая?

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

ТВ водитељ

[@pingemms69]

She knew too much