Erring is a human thing. OK. But when those who make mistakes include the police and judges in addition to people, that is terrible and unfortunate. This is the case in the three-part documentary series “Who Killed Jill Dando?”, a well-known BBC presenter who was shot in the head as she entered her home. The event occurred in April 1999 in the London borough of Fulham, two years after the death of Lady Di, to whom she was physically compared. Both deaths shocked British society, even though there were 920 murders in the UK in the same year, 1999. The presenter’s popularity required a wider and more intensive police investigation than usual, and of course, as the months went by, the tabloid press quickly spread misinformation with all sorts of more or less imaginative theories.
And it was this pressure that led police, more than a year after the murder, to arrest, charge and subsequently convict a suspected perpetrator who was released eight years later and after a new trial for lack of conviction. Proofs. A documentary (Netflix) in which, as is usual in this genre, the content takes precedence over the continent. Formally correct and factual, with the addition that none of those responsible for the investigation evaded an analysis of their investigations and conclusions, the interesting thing that is told is: a huge fact that 24 years after its incident, the person responsible for the The murder of Jill Dando, the host of the television show “Crimewatch,” which paradoxically enlisted the public’s help to solve unsolved crimes, is responsible.
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