I saw a man running. I'm sure he was Jill's killer

A "CRAZY man" who ran from Jill Dando's road into traffic around the time she was murdered was her killer, a witness believes.

- BY TOM PETTIFOR Crime Editor and MATTHEW YOUNG

Ken Williams had just placed a bet at a bookies when he saw the athletic suspect spin off the bonnet of a moving car in Fulham, West London.

Ken was waiting at a pelican crossing with his black labrador Angie when the man appeared around 300 metres from where Jill lay dead outside her Gowan Avenue home.

He said: “I thought that was the man that killed her because he came from Gowan Avenue.

“Why would he run across that road like that when the traffic was moving? I thought it was mad.”

Asked if he was sure the man was the killer, Ken, now 83, said: “Yes, definitely.”

It comes as the Met Police are being urged to launch a review after we found new evidence linking a Serbian assassin to the unsolved 26-year-old case.

A van driver told us he was “80% sure” that Milorad Ulemek was the man he nearly hit close to where Ken was.

And a woman told us last year that she was certain she had seen Ulemek in the same stretch of the Fulham Palace Road on the morning of April 26, 1999. 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 fired at close range.

Ulemek, now 57 and serving 40 years in a Serbian jail, led a unit of hitmen and plotted assassinations for late Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.

Last year we named him for the first time in connection with Jill’s murder after a facial comparison expert said he was identical to a CCTV image of a man filmed near the scene.

In the light of our investigation, MPs have called for the case to be reopened and the top barrister who prosecuted Milosevic for war crimes says Ulemek should be investigated.

At the time Jill was shot, UK planes were bombing Serbia and she was one of the most famous faces on TV, presenting BBC shows such as Crimewatch and Holiday.