Jill Dando?

[sithlord]

Just watched that programme about the Jill Dando case. What do you all reckon. Was Barry George guilty?

[Captain Swab]

I think he was comletely innocent. Misguided perhaps, but innocent.

[Captain Swab]

Is innocent even.

[candybar]

obviously i don't know the case very well at all. but based on the things shown on the show, i dont think there was enough evidence to prove him guilty. how can there be when all the solid evidence they appear to have is some residue which could be a number of things. fair enough he was "weird" and liked guns. but this does not make him guilty. but as i say, they must have known a lot more than this i hope to find him guilty.

[spainlads]

I believe that with the evidence presented they shouldn't have been able to convict him, but with the interest in the case the Met. Police seemed pressured into getting a conviction, and some of the jurors may have felt the same.

Though, what's keeping them from doing the same for Diana?? Who's not even had an inquest in the UK. The ONLY person that's happened too.

[-Zorro-]

It was a hit, not some loon who lived in the street.

[capper1985]

you have to remember, the way the evidence was put across to the jury is as always, intended to sway their decision...The way the program was put together was exactly the same!!

people are too quick to believe things like that without realising, they are doing the exact same thing a the prosecution...

It's a similar thing when 'michael moore' talks about george bush, as stupid as he is, the evidence is put across in a way that makes it more compelling...

yet we never question that we are being lied to by these people!??...strange that it takes so little to convince people!

[EuanC]

Well if that programme was anything to go on - the poor guy was "done up like a kipper". It was such a high profile case, especially with Jill Dando having been a Crimewatch presenter, that the Met HAD to secure a conviction. So they went for the "village idiot".

Absolute travesty, and the way that the jury conducted itself left a wee bit to be desired too.

[unruliejulie]

I didnt watch this programme but have seen the news reports and have never been that convinced he was their man. I think they needed to get someone for it to save fave because she was famous.

[Siamsal]

Ever since he was convicted, I've believed he was innocent. Guilty of being a sad, wierdo maybe, but the murder, no. Just because he was a bit wierd, he was convicted.

To my mind, it had all the indications of being a professional hit; so coolly done, and special bullets. Like a nutter goes to such lengths...

Still, small consolation I know, but he'll be in line for a big payout when he gets out.

[black bunny]

I believe he is innocent of this murder - the only piece of forensic evidence was the gunshot particle found in his coat pocket, and as the programme said, it may not even be a gunshot particle.

But the saddest thing of all is that if we still had the death penalty, which a lot of people want to see reinstated - he would have been hanged. And if he was innocent, no amount of money could compensate him for that.