Dando’s last movements caught on video

Video footage capturing some of Jill Dando’s last movements alive showed she was not being followed, the Old Bailey heard today.

Police investigating her murder spent nearly 500 hours piecing together film from CCTVs - both local authority and on commercial premises - to try and trace her final movements.

Stills were produced from them plotting the route she took.

"There is video footage available of her alive between 10.18am and 11.10am," Detective Constable David Standley told the court.

It showed her first going into a BP garage, then arriving by car at Hammersmith shopping centre, west London.

She is seen returning to the car and then taking a back route to avoid a bottle neck in the Fulham Palace Road, and driving into Winslow Road, Fulham, south west London.

"My conclusion is that the victim was not being followed at any stage in that footage," said Det Con Standley.

Shortly afterwards she was last caught on camera, the prosecution allege the TV presenter was shot through the head as she crouched on the doorstep of her home in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, by jobless Barry George.

George, 41, of Crookham Road, Fulham, has denied murdering Miss Dando on 26 April, 1999.

Det Con Standley said there was no CCTV footage available of Miss Dando leaving Bedford Close - where she had been staying with her fiance, Alan Farthing.