Dando murder conviction unsafe, court is told

THE trial of Barry George, the man jailed for life for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, should have been halted because identification evidence against him was inadmissible, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.

George sat in the dock of the London courtroom as his QC Michael Mansfield made submissions to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, and two other senior judges that the conviction was “unsafe”.

George’s sister Michelle Diskin, from Ballincollig, Co Cork, listened with other supporters as he spoke once to identify himself to the court.