Unsolved Murder of Jill Dando and The Sister of the Wrongly Accused, Michelle Diskin.

On the morning of 26 April 1999, Jill Dando, an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader, was shot dead outside her home in London. It prompted the biggest murder inquiry conducted by the Metropolitan Police and the country's largest criminal investigation since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. A year later a local disabled man, Barry George, was arrested and later convicted and imprisoned for the murder. Eight years later, following a successful appeal against his original conviction, he was retried and acquitted. The case remains unsolved.Michelle Diskin is the sister of Barry George. She campaigned tirelessly to prove her brother's innocence. Here she talks about what it is like to a relative caught in a high profile murder case of this kind and what it took from her and others to challenge the British Criminal Justice System.Links:Michelle Diskin https://www.linkedin.com/in/diskinmichelle/?originalSubdomain=ukBook: Stand Against Injustice : Michelle Diskin Bates, : 9781910786246MOJ: http://www.mojuk.org.uk/Appeal: http://appeal.org.uk/Second Chance: facebook.com/RaphaelRowePodcast/Second Chance Webpage: Second ChanceYour Vision Media LTD: www.yourvisionmedia.tvSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Award Winning Second Chance is a podcast series that explores the theme of second chance. It raises the questions who deserves a second chance, who decides who gets a second chance and what a second chance actually means. On this podcast we speak to people from all walks of life about their experiences, some who have been given a second chance in life, some who might be considered to be beyond deserving a second chance. The host of the podcast series is Raphael Rowe, host of the critically acclaimed series ‘Inside the World's Toughest Prisons’ on Netflix. He is also a former correspondent for the world's longest running BBC TV current affairs show Panorama the BBC Radio 4 Today programme as well as a regular contributor on The One Show and Sunday Morning Live on BBC One. In 1988, aged 20, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder and robbery he did not commit. In July 2000, after 12 years in prison, the Court of Appeal quashed his wrongful convictions and he was freed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.