The brutal and apparently inexplicable murder of Jill, 37, on her own doorstep in broad daylight on a busy residential street left the public, police and press united in disbelief

Jill Dando was "happy and bubbly" when she took a call from the Prince Edward Theatre to confirm tickets for the musical Mamma Mia!

It was going to be a surprise birthday present for her fiancé Alan Farthing, a consultant gynaecologist, who she was set to marry in five months. But less than 20 minutes after taking the call, on the morning of Monday April 26, 1999, Jill was shot dead at point-blank range as she opened her front door.

The brutal and apparently inexplicable murder of a 37-year-old woman in broad daylight on a busy residential street would have been shocking enough. But for the victim to be one

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