![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/inside-life-of-barry-george-who-was-wrongly-convicted-of-jill-dandos-murder/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/killed-jill-dando-barry-george-847769141.jpg&description=BARRY George has tried to build a new life after spending eight years behind bars when wrongly convicted of Jill Dando's murder. George, who moved to Ireland after being freed, features in a new Netflix documentary Who Killed Jill Dando ? about the TV star's death. 5 Barry George has contributed to the new series about Jill Dando's murder Credit: Courtesy of Netflix 5 George spent eight years behind bars before being cleared of the killing in a retrial Credit: check copyright 5 Jill, 37, was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, south-west London Credit: Rex He was seen in a trailer ahead of the series being released, saying: "It makes me angry that they have taken eight years of my life." George , now 63, was found guilty in July 2001 of murdering 37-year-old Dando who was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, south-west London, on April 26 1999. But his conviction was overturned in August 2008 after a retrial. One of his lawyers Jeremy Moore said George's first words after being cleared were: "I cannot believe it." Mr Moore read a statement from his client outside the Old Bailey in London at the time, saying: "I am overwhelmed. "I want to thank my family, legal team, and all the people who have supported me in prison and around the country." His sister Michelle Diskin, who helped challenge the original conviction, said: "We have been fighting for many years. "Now we need time together to be a family again." Another of George's defence barristers has now said he doesn't believe the murder of the BBC 's Crimewatch and Holiday presenter Dando will ever be solved. William Clegg also insisted George was innocent, saying he would have made "a very improbable assassin". Mr Clegg told Metro : "He was somebody who I don't think had the intelligence to be able to have pulled off such a professional assassination. "I mean, it was quite a meticulously-planned shooting." Mr Clegg added he thought it "would be very unlikely after all this time for the real killer to be apprehen){kind=link}
BARRY George has tried to build a new life after spending eight years behind bars when wrongly convicted of Jill Dando’s murder.
George, who moved to Ireland after being freed, features in a new Netflix documentary Who Killed Jill Dando? about the TV star’s death.
He was seen in a trailer ahead of the series being released, saying: “It makes me angry that they have taken eight years of my life.”
George, now 63, was found guilty in July 2001 of murdering 37-year-old Dando who was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, south-west London, on April 26 1999.
But his conviction was overturned in August 2008 after a retrial.