There is no specific reason for the arrival of the three-part Netflix series Who Killed Jill Dando? It marks no anniversary. There is no new information to be shared, no new suspect in the frame. But perhaps that is the point. One of the most unexpected and inexplicable high-profile murders in living memory remains unsolved. It has been made with the approval of Jill’s brother, Nigel, who says he hopes it will encourage someone to come forward or shake loose some vital piece of evidence that will lead to the discovery of her killer.
Jill Dando was a television journalist and presenter who, on 26 April 1999, was shot in the head at point blank range at her front door in Fulham, west London, by an assailant who has never been identified. Everything about it was almost impossible. Shootings outside violent gangs (or those caught between them) are vanishingly rare in the UK. Murders of women by strangers are rare. Crime of any kind is low in the affluent environs of Fulham. The killing of an unprovocative, beloved celebrity in broad daylight for no apparent reason completely beggared belief.
