FORMER Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell has joined the growing calls for police to revive the Jill Dando murder case after it was linked to a Serbian assassin.
On the day the Crimewatch host was gunned down, he told how he felt it may have been in retaliation for UK criticism of Serb media during the Yugoslav war in the 90s.
And after we revealed a man caught on CCTV that same day looked like hitman Milorad Ulemek, he added: "Jill's murder was a brutal killing and I would hope that any new evidence would be taken seriously and examined." When Jill, 37, was killed on April 26, 1999, at her south-west London home, war in the Balkans was raging.
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