Evidence in police files holds hope of progress

TWO fingerprints found on Jill Dando's door are among the forensic clues that could solve her murder.

- BY TOM PETTIFOR

They are somewhere in 223 boxes of evidence held in a Met Police warehouse, each containing around 1000 pages of documents, photographs and other exhibits.

Jill, 37, was ambushed from behind as she was about to open her front door, forced to the ground and killed with one bullet to the left temple in April 1999.

The two unidentified fingerprints were left on the exterior of her white, gloss-painted front door, which was taken away by forensics officers.

Our analysis of hundreds of pages of police files and court papers show the evidence is among three sets of “priority marks” that remain unidentified.

The revelation comes as the Met said they were examining our investigation linking Serbian hitman Milorad Ulemek to the murder.

A memo for a Met Police management board meeting more than a year after the killing, in May 2000, stated that efforts to find who the fingerprints belonged to had failed.

The second batch of priority marks were palm and finger marks.