Not Jill Dando’s Killer Barry George And Tabloid TV BBC
BARRY George has had his conviction for the murder of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando quashed on appeal. He has been in prison for eight years.
Says Mr George: “I want to thank my family, my legal team, my medical team and all the people who have supported me at Belmarsh, Whitemoor and Manchester prisons, and all my supporters.”
On the BBC 10 o’clock news, this was the lead story. And twice during the feature Mr George was called an “oddball”.
Anorak cannot help but think of libelled Robert Murat, called an “oddball” by the tabloid press in its obsession with the Madeleine McCann case. He’s the Mail’s “oddball“.
Farmer Joaquim Marques was also called an “oddball” by the Daily Mirror. The Sun saw another Madeleine McCann “oddball” in a photofit.
Mick Donovan, who was allegedly found in the company of missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews, was the Sun’s “oddball“.
Michael Jackson has been the Star’s “oddball“.
Lembit Opik, the MP, has been a Mail on Sunday “oddball“.
When did the BBC become tabloid TV?
Posted: 1st, August 2008 | In: Overheard On The TV And Radio, Police Log, TV & Radio, Tabloids Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
no he’s not. All he wanted was a copy of the interview. He got nowhere near her and she’s run off crying help help!
October 17th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
enough is enough !
now he’s after kay burley !
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
I wonder if the police will use their famous phrase. We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this crime.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
More tabloid BINGO… linking Madeleine McCann with the murders in Antigua, courtesy of that great pillar of British journalism, Tony Parsons. It’s those dirty foreigners, don’t you know!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/parsons/2008/08/02/paradise-lost-for-tourists-115875-20680556/
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
Miss Dando was killed with a special bullet from a specially made one shot weapon which required specialist engineering knowledge and specialist engineering equipment. George had an IQ of 75 and none of the above equipment. The police knew this. The CPS knew this yet went ahead with a prosecution of an innocent man. Let us hope there will be an enquiry into WHY the real killer has been allowed off scot free. [personal details removed - dr]
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:26 am
I think he has a remarkable sister and legal team. The abuse and repetitions of past misdemeanour’s also happen to breech the Rehabilitation of Offenders strictures..
All grist to the compensation mill which is already grinding exceeding small.
The compen will, of course, also have eight years of not-the- finest bed and breakfasts in the U.K. deducted before settlement and after tax.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Anorak…. the ‘popular’ press have had a field day this morning with dragging up everything they can find on Barry George. Back to trial by a media that obviously had all the ‘evidence’ ready for a guilty verdict. Rather than bin it all they decided to be green a la waste not want not, and used it anyway!
It stinks.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Let’s not get to picky,precious and pedantic about this.
“Oddball” is a fair-enough description of Barry George.After all, the dictionary definition of “Oddball” is “a strange and/or eccentric person”.
That seems to fit him rather well - after isn’t this behaviour, as reported by The Guardian, “odd”? :-
” He was charged and acquitted of an indecent assault in 1980 but convicted on a similar charge shortly afterwards. He received a three-month suspended prison sentence. He was later accused of rape, which he denied, although he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
In 1983, he appeared at the Old Bailey under the name Steve Majors (Lee Majors played Steve Austin in the TV series the Six Million Dollar Man) and was convicted of attempted rape and sentenced to 33 months. He served 23 before being released. He had earlier been found by the royal protection squad hiding in the bushes at Kensington Palace, wearing khaki, carrying a knife and a length of rope. He never explained why he was there and he was not charged with an offence because officers swiftly linked him to the sex attack.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:03 am
8 years of your life for crime you did not commit is horrific. To then have the BBC call you names is a indictment on the national broadcaster.
BBC bias…
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Glad to hear Mr George has been cleared. Poor man, he obviously didn’t do it. He should sue real good and hard for this! He was seen around the area and had been for a long time. Someone with a jealous streak wanted Jill Dando gone, questions is….who?
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
Ha!
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
Congratulations!
Even if he had done the crime - it was feeble evidence to get a life-term for.
Good for you Mr. George. I am made up for you - Even though I know that you are not as daft as you look.
Let’s catch the real killers now. Let’s start in some Caribbean islands in a tropical rain-storm.