Overview
- The Metropolitan Police said on Saturday, September 26, 2026 that cold‑case officers have digitised and begun enhancing original Putney Bridge footage from 1999 using new image‑processing technology.
- The footage shows an unidentified man called 'Man X' walking along what investigators believe was the killer’s likely escape route about 20 minutes after Jill Dando was shot.
- A 2024 facial‑comparison claim linking Man X to Milorad Ulemek has been raised again but experts note inconsistencies such as a dent on Ulemek’s nose and outlets give different accounts of his Serbian sentence.
- Cold‑case detectives spent roughly ten months locating the original tapes in police storage and the Met stressed the work is part of ongoing enquiries and not a confirmed breakthrough.
- Dando was shot on her Fulham doorstep on 26 April 1999, the case remains unsolved after Barry George’s conviction was overturned, and early theories about a political motive tied to NATO and her Kosovo appeal still form part of investigators’ background context.