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Birth: | 9th November, 1961 |
Death: | 26th April, 1999 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Journalist, Newsreader, Television Presenter |
Jill Wendy Dando was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. She was an English journalist and television presenter who was 1997 BBC Personality of the Year. At the time of her death, she was the presenter of the BBC programme Crimewatch. On 26 April 1999, she was fatally shot outside her home in Fulham, London. A local man, Barry George, was convicted and imprisoned for the murder but was later acquitted after an appeal and retrial. She studied Journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff. She was a volunteer at Sunshine Hospital Radio in Weston-super-Mare in 1979. Her first job was as a trainee reporter for the local weekly newspaper, the Weston Mercury. After five years as a print journalist, she started to work for the BBC becoming a newsreader for BBC Radio Devon in 1985.
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