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Monitor: JILL DANDO VERDICT - The British press comments on the conviction of Barry George for the murder of the television presenter A celebrity-obsessed culture
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The Times
EVERY ASPECT of the story that has unfolded in Courtroom Number
One of the Old Bailey has been disturbing in the extreme. The very
fact that Jill Dando, a television presenter, could have been shot at
her own front door in London, in broad daylight, is a shocking
obscenity in itself. Yet it is perhaps more shocking still that her
killer, the unemployed loner Barry George, who was finally sentenced
to life imprisonment yesterday, had avoided the attention of carers
and law en...
