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Family of man wrongly convicted of Jill Dando's murder 'have no faith' in police probe

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The family of a man wrongly convicted of Jill Dando's murder state that they have no faith that the Metropolitan Police will probe the shocking claims that she was killed in a case of mistaken identity.

Barry George's sister, Michelle Diskin Bates, said that she always thought police knew that her freed brother, now 62, was not guilty of killing the Crimewatch presenter.

Documents now submitted to a Paris court suggest that Jill may have been killed in error in 1999 by a Russian hitman who meant to target another BBC journalist.

Court papers claim that the killer was hired by French fashion boss Gerald Marie, who had been accused of multiple counts of sexual assault, to murder ­journalist Lisa Brinkworth.Ms Brinkworth wrote in the Daily Mail in May how she had allegedly been sexually assaulted by Mr Marie while going undercover to expose his agency, Elite Model Management.

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