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Dando Murder.

A real mess of a case. Tons of circumstantial evidence, but because of how they chose to prosecute the case everything hinges on this residue evidence that they found, which looks extremely dodgy.
 
watched the documentary a few months ago..it were obvious to a 10 year old..he didn't do it.

disgraceful police work..blokes life trashed...we foot the bill for incompetence

police response...we feel sorry for Dando family

start feeling sorry for yourselves and make sure it never happens again
 
The proverbial "Blind Man" could see he was innocent. Disgraceful police work, but, sadly, not an isolated case. No doubt they will be briefing against him to selected friendly journalists.
 
His life ruined and the real killer's been on the loose for eight years or so? Crazy stuff.
 
Another strong argument against having the death penalty back.

......or is it?

If the death penalty had been on the table would he have been found guilty?
 
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So desperate where the police to find the murderer that Barry George just was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was known to be in the area, and he tried to change his story a couple of times, probably as he knew if he didn't - the police would read too much into it. He was probably right. The evidence against Barry was always very questionable. Barry George has been suffering from mental health problems before he went to prison so you can only ask how much worse his condition got whilst he was inside. It appalled me that the journalists started discussing his level of compensation, when Barry had literally only just been whisked away in a taxi looking shell shocked.

I hope the journalists (desperate for another story) now do the decent thing leave Barry and his family alone. Yes, he is clearly entitled to some form of compensation, but far more importantly than that is Barry being able to slowly adjust to some form of normality, whatever that involves for him right now.

What people should really worry about is who actually DID kill Jill Dando. You can only imagine what her family must be feeling like right now.
 
the media are also to blame in all this. They put lots of pressure on the police in these high profile cases..a result has to be achieved..in this case in the usual lazy way we have come to expect

the media really are a sickening bunch of individuals

it's not like this on midsummer murders...barnaby gets it right every time:p
 
The media were certainly aware that Barry George had been convicted of sexually motivated violence against women before, as well as stalking; so their inference, no doubt encouraged by the police (who believed their own propaganda) that he was the most likely assailant wasn't wholly unjustified, esp as he lived around the corner and had material on Dando in his flat.

Sadly they then seem to have tried to skew the evidence - ie give too much weight to residues which didn't bear the interpretation put on them. But there was a great weight of 'circumstantial evidence' so they can't totally be blamed for following up on that at the time. I didn't see the recent TV programme btw; and I haven't read the Judge's summing up in the Appeal either, so I'm not sure how far George has been exonerated, or whether the judgement was on grounds of 'not proven'.

The main reason for thinking they got it wrong is that George is mentally incapable of the clinical execution of this crime, as it was carried out - it has all the hallmarks of a professional assassination. The Serbian link may well be the one to have followed up on after all.
 


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