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Police Recheck 1999 CCTV Linking “Man X” to Ulemek

By Drooid · Sep 26, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC · How we work

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Met Police Reexamines CCTV

Metropolitan Police are re-examining Putney Bridge station CCTV from 26 April 1999 in Jill Dando’s murder.
The footage shows an unidentified man dubbed “Man X” near the scene a mile away.
Detectives are comparing Man X’s features to Serbian commander Milorad Ulemek, first linked to the case in 2024.
Two eyewitnesses told the Mirror they were 80 % certain the runner was Ulemek.
Operation Oxborough, the probe, cost £2.75 million, interviewed over 2,500 people and examined 80,000 phones.

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NATO Bombs Serbia

During Dando’s murder, UK aircraft bombed Serbia as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) campaign.
Dando fronted a BBC charity appeal for Kosovan refugees twenty days before she was killed.
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Ulemek’s former spy master admitted sending assassins into Europe at the time of Dando’s death.

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Met Police Reexamines CCTV

Metropolitan Police are re-examining Putney Bridge station CCTV from 26 April 1999 in Jill Dando’s murder.
The footage shows an unidentified man dubbed “Man X” near the scene a mile away.
Detectives are comparing Man X’s features to Serbian commander Milorad Ulemek, first linked to the case in 2024.
Two eyewitnesses told the Mirror they were 80 % certain the runner was Ulemek.
Operation Oxborough, the probe, cost £2.75 million, interviewed over 2,500 people and examined 80,000 phones.

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