‘He was somebody who I don’t think had the intelligence to be able to have pulled off such a professional assassination.'
presenter famous as the face of some of its flagship shows including Crimewatch and Holiday, shocked the nation., on the morning of April 26, 1999.
However, Mr Clegg could see from his very first dealings with Mr George that he would have made ‘a very improbable assassin’.Speaking to Metro, the barrister said: ‘He was pathetic. He was clearly challenged in some ways. Initially instructed to assist in asking the miscarriage of justice watchdog to refer the case back to the Court of Appeal, he then appeared in the subsequent appeal and retrial.
On how his tactics differed from those of Mr George’s defence team in the first trial, he explained: ‘There were two areas I thought were perhaps not worth pursuing in the same way. ‘Once you can discount the Serbian gunman it sort of tends to get your thinking back to it being Barry, whereas our approach was we haven’t the faintest idea who did it, but it couldn’t have been Barry.’
‘So, it was very difficult to get him to focus on what really mattered, and indeed difficult to get instructions from him in some ways ‘[Ms Dando] returned to her home on the morning of her death from her fiancé’s house and was clearly not followed, the police could prove that conclusively through CCTV evidence of her drive through London.