Jill Dando's brother hopes 'guilty' killer will come forward after 24 years

The brother of BBC Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando said he hopes a new documentary examining her high-profile unsolved murder may “prick the conscience of whoever did it”.

Nigel Dando hopes the 37-year-old broadcaster’s killer will come forward after a new three-part Netflix series began streaming on Tuesday.

Dando was shot dead outside her home on Gowan Avenue, Fulham, west London, in April 1999.

Her murder left family, friends, colleagues and the entire nation in a state of shock and sparked one of the UK’s largest police homicide investigations.

Scotland Yard’s prime suspect Barry George, now 63, was originally convicted in 2001, imprisoned for eight years before later being acquitted and released after a retrial.

Nigel Dando, Jill Dando and Jack Dando (Courtesy of Netflix)

Mr Dando, also a journalist, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “This documentary may just jog somebody’s conscience into coming forward and confessing that they were the person who pulled the trigger on the day in question…

“It’s a difficult thing to expect to happen. I have to be realistic that here we are 24 years on, whoever killed Jill is still at large. 24 years on, are they even still alive?

“My belief is that if they are alive, and they do have a conscience, that programmes like this may just prick the conscience of whoever did it.

“There are also people around who may have some knowledge of this and I would say to them it is never too late.”