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Article: Jill Dando assassin theory `is nonsense'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2001
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THE SUGGESTION that Jill Dando could have been murdered by a
Serbian assassin or underworld hitman was dismissed yesterday as
"utter nonsense" that had no evidence to support it.
Far from being a professional hit, the murder of Ms Dando, shot
dead on the doorstep of her home in south-west London, was carried
out in an amateurish manner, said Orlando Pownall, during the summing
up of the prosecution's case at the Old Bailey.
He told the jury that Ms Dando's killer had been unmasked,
ungloved and used a single shot from a modified handgun - "not the
choice of a professional", he said, before adding: "It doesn't take a
professional to come from behind a bush and shoot somebody in the
head."
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