EXCLUSIVE'Jill would kick off her high heels at the end of Crimewatch so I would be taller on TV': Jill Dando's former 同僚 Nick Ross 支払う／賃金s a loving 尊敬の印 to his beloved co-星／主役にする 25 years on from her death

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With more than a passing resemblance to Princess Diana and the status of a 国家の treasure 堅固に 固く結び付けるd, Jill Dando was, to millions, the girl next door.?

So her 殺人 at the 手渡すs of a 孤独な 銃器携帯者／殺しや on April 26, 1999, was a searing shock rivalled only by the Princess of むちの跡s' death いっそう少なく than two years earlier.

Now, 25 years on from her 殺人，大当り, her former 同僚 Nick Ross has paid a loving 尊敬の印 to the 星／主役にする as he continues his 運動 to その上の her 遺産／遺物.

Mr Ross, now 76, told MailOnline that his friend was 'uniquely generous', 明らかにする／漏らすing how she would 'kick off her high heels' to 確実にする he was taller when the pair 調印するd off on Crimewatch - the show they 現在のd together for four years from 1995.?

She was, he 追加するd, 'one of the greatest 放送者s of the time', にもかかわらず having to 戦う／戦い against 'misogynistic' newsroom 同僚s.

He led 成果／努力s to 基金 a 開拓するing 罪，犯罪 science centre 指名するd in honour of Ms Dando which opened at University College London in 2001.

Jill Dando's former Crimewatch 同僚 Nick Ross has paid a loving 尊敬の印 to the 星／主役にする 25 years on from? her death. He told MailOnline that she was 'almost uniquely generous'. Above: The pair in the Crimewatch studio

Ms Dando 提起する／ポーズをとるing in the Seychelles while 現在のing the Holiday programme for the BBC

The presenter was 設立する by 隣人s 低迷d against her 前線 door on Gowan Avenue in Fulham, West London, in a pool of 血 after 苦しむing a 選び出す／独身 射撃 負傷させる to the 長，率いる.

CCTV （映画の）フィート数 showed she had left her fiance's house at around 10am before 運動ing to a garage on the A4. There she bought 石油 and a 瓶／封じ込める of milk before visiting a shopping 商店街 in Hammersmith.

She then 長，率いるd to a fighmonger's on the Fulham Road to 選ぶ up Dover 単独の for dinner with her other half that night before going to her own home in what is believed to have been a 刺激（する） of the moment 決定／判定勝ち（する）.?

Ms Dando's 殺人 誘発するd a 抱擁する 調査 led by the 主要都市の Police which resulted in Barry George - a 地元の loner and fantasist who had already served a 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 for 試みる／企てるd 強姦 - 存在 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of her 殺人 in July 2001.

The 証拠 against him had 含むd a seemingly damning photograph that was 設立する in his home.

A man that police were 納得させるd was George was seen menacingly dressed in a leather jacket and gas mask, with a blank-解雇する／砲火／射撃ing ピストル in 手渡す.?

The image was 設立する with thousands of other photographs of hundreds of women George had stalked on the streets of West London.

Officers also 設立する a 選び出す／独身 穀物 of 射撃 residue in his coat pocket.

But he was 認めるd a retrial on 控訴，上告 and was acquitted by a 陪審／陪審員団 in August 2008.

Mr Ross said: 'She was 簡単に one of the greatest 放送者s of the time, 完全に natural in 前線 of the camera, unfazed by live broadcasting and just the same offscreen as on.?

'That's why she was so often dubbed the Girl Next Door. Some of her misogynistic newsroom 同僚s preferred to think she only did so 井戸／弁護士席 because she was so telegenic but she was 現実に a decent 新聞記者／雑誌記者 too.?

Ms Dando's 殺人 誘発するd a 抱擁する 調査 led by the 主要都市の Police and resulted in Barry George - a 地元の loner and fantasist who had already served a 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 for 試みる／企てるd 強姦 - 存在 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of her 殺人 in July 2001. Above: George in 2001 and 2009

The 証拠 against him had 含むd a seemingly damning photograph that was 設立する in his home. A man that police were 納得させるd was George was seen menacingly dressed in a leather jacke t and gas mask, with a blank-解雇する／砲火／射撃ing ピストル in 手渡す?

Police search Gowan Avenue in Fulham after Ms Dando's 殺人 on her doorstep

Police 法廷の officers a t Gowan Avenue, Fulham, where TV presenter Jill Dando was 殺人d

'And while a lot of people in broadcasting try to 掴む the limelight she was almost uniquely generous.?

'At the end of the show when we （機の）カム together for the 調印する-off Jill would surreptitiously kick off her high heels so I would be taller than she was in stockinged feet.?

'And she was one of the real 開拓するs for women on TV. Fiona Bruce and many others credit her for helping with their success.

'Her 遺産／遺物 is the one of the world's biggest university department’s 献身的な to finding new ways of cutting 罪，犯罪.?

'The Jill Dando 学校／設ける of 罪，犯罪 Science at UCL is not just criminology but psychology, architecture, 工学, 法廷のs, in fact whatever can be used to design a safer world.'

The gun that was used in Ms Dando's 殺人 has never been 設立する, but 法廷の examination of the 爆撃する 事例／患者ing and 弾丸 - which was discovered on the ground outside Ms Dando's home - 示唆するs it was from a 'smooth bore' 9mm handgun.

It was either a 修正するd starting ピストル or a re-活動させる／戦時編成するd 武器, police believe.?

にもかかわらず Ms Dando's 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 傷害s and the fact she was believed to have died 即時に, 広範囲にわたる 成果／努力s were made to resuscitate her both at the scene and at Charing Cross Hospital, where she was 宣言するd dead.

The Mail 明らかにする／漏らすd that an 公式の／役人 police 報告（する）／憶測 非難するd resuscitation 成果／努力s for 潜在的に destroying 決定的な 証拠 that could have led officers to her 殺し屋.

Her 着せる／賦与するs were ripped off to 成し遂げる cardiac massage and the ground was 'trampled' by those who tried to save her.

Former 探偵，刑事 長，指導者 視察官 Hamish Campbell, who led the 主要都市の Police's 調査 into Ms Dando's 殺人，大当り, told the Mail this week: 'There was no 疑問, in our 見解（をとる） at the time, that the 罪，犯罪 scene was ひどく 汚染するd by the 救急車 緊急 services.

'There were some eight people 現在の, which 含むd three doctors. The 可能性のある 汚染 of shoe prints, 着せる／賦与するing fibres, デオキシリボ核酸 cross 汚染, resuscitation 試みる／企てるs ― on someone 明確に dead ― are all features which 与える／捧げる to 証拠 破壊 and 処分.

'Of course, it was all unintentional. And the 役割 of 保存するing a life over 保存するing 証拠 is the constant 審議.

'However, she was dead, and I believe she could have been 宣言するd dead at the scene, as with so many other 事例／患者s. And the scene then 調印（する）d for examination.

'Her [celebrity] status was, I believe, a factor in 試みる／企てるing resuscitation, which was futile.'

In the years since Ms Dando's 殺人，大当り there have been （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that she was 殺人d on the orders of a ロシアの ギャング（個々） who was angry she had 拒絶するd his 前進するs while filming an episode of Holiday in Cyprus.

Another theory 示唆するd she was 殺人d by a policeman who had appeared on Crimewatch.

悪名高い road 激怒（する） 殺害者 and ギャング（個々） Kenneth Noye was also （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have ordered her 狙撃.

Police also looked into the 可能性?that Ms Dando had been 殺人d on the orders of the Serbian 将軍 and 暗黒街 boss ?eljko Ra?natovi?, aka Arkan.

Earlier in April 1999, Ms Dando 前線d a BBC1 broadcast 控訴，上告ing for 基金s to help 難民s 逃げるing the 民族の 洗浄するing of Albanians by Serbian 軍隊s in the 州 of Kosovo.

British wa rplanes were taking part in the Nato 爆破 of Yugoslavia to try to 停止（させる） the 大虐殺 when Ms Dando was killed.

The Serbian theory made headlines again this week with a （人命などを）奪う，主張する that the man who was seen running away from the 殺人 scene looked 類似の to a Serbian 暗殺者 called Milorad Ulemek.?

However, Mr Campbell remains 納得させるd that she was 殺人d by a loner rather than a professional 暗殺者 - in large part because there is little 証拠 to support the other theories.

He said: 'To me, the 殺人 had the hallmarks of the loner 事実上の／代理 because of a political 動機づけ, 怒り／怒る, or just an obsessive personality.'

Jill Dando with her Crimewatch 同僚 Nick Ross. The pair 前線d the programme from 1995 until her death in 1999

Nick Ross with former BBC 同僚 Fiona Bruce (far left) and the Duchess of Edinburgh (second from 権利) - then the Countess of Wessex - at a 記念の event for Ms Dando at UCL in 2019

Ms Dando beams in a 宣伝の image. Her 殺人 shocked the nation and led to a 全国的な manhunt?

Ms Dando is pictured with her fianc? Alan Farthing in 1999, months before she was 発射 dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham

These are the haunting last images of Ms Dando, pictured just 40 minutes before s he was assassinated outside her home

Ms Dando is seen on TV out shopping on the day that she was 殺人d?

Another image shows her walking through a shopping centre in Hammersmith

'The 合理的な／理性的な for the gangland theory, the ロシアのs, the セルビア人s, the Adams, anyone from Crimewatch, was just never viable.

'I wrote in my personal 公式文書，認めるs, in earliest weeks, that I considered the 殺人，大当り to be the work of the loner or the obsessive. Many months later I 記録，記録的な／記録するd that I still 恐れるd the loner or an ill man was responsible.

'Twenty-five years later, there's still nothing from the 広大な 犯罪の 網状組織s. No one 現れるing.?

'So it must have been a loner, or at least someone 事実上の／代理 on their own 率先. That I feel sure of.'

Even a £100,000 reward 申し込む／申し出d by the Daily Mail at the time failed to 申し込む／申し出 up any groundbreaking （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） that might have led police to the 犯人.?

Ms Dando was born in Weston-最高の-損なう in 1961 and followed her father and brother Nigel into 地元の newspaper journalism.

She then made the jump to television with stints in 地域の news broadcasting.

In 1988 she started 現在のing the BBC's hourly 国家の 公式発表s and five years later was given her own show, travel programme Holiday.?

Then, in 1995, she took on the 役割 that 固く結び付けるd her as a 世帯 指名する.

Her 義務s on Crimwatch と一緒に Mr Ross 誘発するd テレビ視聴者s to 投票（する） her BBC Personality of the Year in 1997.?

She 現在のd the programme 42 times before she was 殺人d.

The 星／主役にする, a devout Baptist, had lived with her cousin in Southfields, south-west London, before buying her home in Gowan Avenue, Hammersmith.

In November 1997 she met her 未来 fianc?? Alan Farthing, a 顧問 gynaecologist at a London hospital.

The couple became engaged in January 1999 and were 予定 to marry that Septemb er.?

In the deluge of 分析 since her 殺人，大当り, Ms Dando's 開拓するing 役割 as a universally-known 女性（の） 放送者 has いつかs been overlooked.

Her former 同僚 Fiona Bruce 以前 said: 'Jill led the way for me, not just in the programmes that I did but also in how I could do them.?

'She showed that you can do the news and you can still show your humanity, your warmth, your sense of fun.'?

Police pictured outside the home of Ms Dando in 1999 に引き続いて her 殺人

Six 独特の 示すs were 設立する on the cartridge 事例／患者 used by the 銃器携帯者／殺しや who killed Jill Dando

One of the ちらしs that was 手渡すd out in an 成果／努力 to trace Ms Dando's 殺し屋

The Daily Mail's ニュース報道 of Ms Dando's shocking 殺人, which gripped the nation

'I think, more often than I 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う you might realise, would I be 現在のing the programmes that I love, 連合させるing just recently Question Time and the news with something like the Antiques Roadshow and other programmes I've made over the years if it wasn't for Jill?'

A 広報担当者 for the 主要都市の Police said this month: 'Ahead of the 25th 周年記念日 of Jill Dando's 殺人, our thoughts remain with her family and all those 影響する／感情d by her death.

'In the years since her 殺人, the 調査 has been 支配する to 非常に／多数の reviews, 目的（とする）ing to identify whether 事柄s could be 進歩d with 前進するs in 科学（工学）技術 and 法廷のs.

'The 調査 is now in an inactive 段階, which means that it is not 現在／一般に 支配する to 決まりきった仕事 reviews.?

'However, no 未解決の 殺人 is ever の近くにd and 探偵，刑事s would consider any new （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 供給するd to 査定する／（税金などを）課す whether it 代表するd a new and 現実主義の line of enquiry.

'Anyone with （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） is asked to call 101 or tweet @MetCC. Alternatively 接触する 独立した・無所属 charity Crimestoppers 不明な on 0800 555 111.'