The TV presenter and newsreader was born in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, and worked for the BBC for 14 years.

She was 37 when she died on the doorstep of her home on Gowan Avenue.

Soon after her death, a man of Serbian descent called the BBC claiming she had been executed in a revenge hit for the UK-backed Nato bombing of Serbia's state broadcaster in Belgrade.

However, Barry George, a local man, was convicted of her murder and spent eight years in jail before being acquitted at a retrial in 2008.

Dando's partner, Alan Farthing, was interviewed by the police, along with her ex-partner and BBC Breakfast news editor Bob Wheaton. Also interviewed was her agent Jon Roseman, who had written a crime novel detailing a very similar scene.

They were all ruled out as suspects.

Her killing was the subject of a Netflix documentary Who Killed Jill Dando? in 2023.

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