A woman who believes she came face-to-face with the man who killed TV presenter Jill Dando says she is relieved that the Metropolitan Police is finally reviewing CCTV footage of a possible suspect. She remains convinced that the man she saw fleeing the scene in 1999 closely resembled Serbian figure Milorad Ulemek, and insists she would recognise him again. “I’m not good with names, but I’m really good with faces,” she said.
Now in her 40s and working as a carer, the witness reported to police the day after Dando was shot outside her Fulham home. She told officers she had seen a man in a suit, shirt and tie running down Fulham Palace Road with a startled expression. A month later, after reviewing station CCTV, she identified the same man on film, as per Wales Online.
The footage shows a man believed to be “Man X,” wearing a tie that appears to match one Ulemek was photographed wearing. The suspect in the video remains unidentified and wanted. Reacting to news that the Met has begun examining the footage after years of inaction, she said, “It is good that they are, but they should have done it in the first place.
They’ve had it the entire time. I’m positive the man I saw in the CCTV was the man I saw running, they were definitely one and the same person.” The CCTV was recorded at Putney Bridge tube station around midday on April 26, 1999, roughly half an hour after Dando was shot. The location is close to a bus stop where a man dubbed “sweating man” in a police e-fit was last seen.
Despite its potential significance, the Met never released the tube station image publicly. The woman was one of four witnesses who described seeing a suited man running toward Putney Bridge. Detectives at the time said this individual matched the “sweating man” spotted leaving a 74 bus. Jill’s neighbour Richard Hughes, who briefly saw the gunman holding what might have been a phone, said he “looked like” the e-fit produced by a female motorist. Another neighbour, Geoffrey Upfillbrown, said the likeness was “similar.”
The witness recalled driving north on Fulham Palace Road when she saw the man: “He was really motoring, nobody would have caught him. He looked straight at me. He seemed startled.” She described him as slim, in his 30s, about 5ft 11in, with dark brown hair roughly two inches long and parted to the left.
She later viewed stills from Putney Bridge station on May 24, 1999. One man immediately caught her attention. “The guy looked like he had a travel card or something, put it in, walked through the barrier, walked about three steps maybe, stopped dead, looked straight up at the CCTV camera and walked straight back out of the tube station.”
She added that the behaviour was so unusual that she reacted on the spot. “Very strange behaviour. Why would you do that? It was very unusual behaviour that made him stand out. I was virtually jumping up and down, saying to the officer: ‘Oh my God, did you see that?’ But there was no response; he didn’t seem interested.”
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