Overturned Conviction For Murder of Jill Dando
Jill Dando was shot dead outside her home on 26 April 1999. George (who at the time of the murder lived in a ground floor flat in Crookham Road, Fulham) was arrested for her murder on 25 May 2000, and charged for it on 29 May 2000. He was convicted of it by a majority of ten to one on 2 July 2001, a verdict considered unsafe by some observers at the time.
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