A witness who believes she saw Jill Dando's murderer fleeing the scene has welcomed the Metropolitan Police's decision to review CCTV footage of a potential suspect, but criticised the delay in examining the evidence.
The woman, now a carer in her 40s, is convinced she made eye contact with Milorad Ulemek, a Serbian hitman, near the Crimewatch presenter's Fulham home in 1999. She reported the sighting the day after the killing and later identified the same man in CCTV images from Putney Bridge tube station.
The CCTV, recorded about half an hour after the shooting, showed a man behaving strangely at the ticket barriers. The woman described him as having dark brown hair, slim, in his 30s, and about 5ft 11in, matching Ulemek's description at the time. She said she is "really good with faces" and would recognise him again.
The woman was one of four witnesses who saw a man in a suit running down Fulham Palace Road towards the tube. Detectives linked the sighting to an e-fit of a "sweating man" seen getting off a bus at Putney Bridge. Neighbours of Ms Dando also identified the suspect in the e-fit as similar to the gunman.
Reacting to the Met's examination of the findings, the woman expressed frustration: "They should have done it in the first place. They've had it the entire time." She said she was positive the man in the CCTV was the man she saw running.
