Philip Joseph found Barry George far more competent than he made himself out to be to.
A media article stated;
Dr Philip Joseph, another leading psychiatrist who was called by the prosecution, said George was “far more competent” than tests would suggest and capable of lying in police interviews.
While some of his behaviour could be attributed to his epilepsy and cognitive impairment, his stalking of women appeared to stem from an “intense anger” caused by rejection, Dr Joseph said.
15th April 1960 – Barry Michael George Was Born. He Was Said To Be “..a difficult child, wild, unpredictable and other-worldly. His parents, former soldier and special constable Paddy – now 71 – and care assistant Margaret, brought him into the world in a last-ditch attempt to save their stormy marriage. The relationship was doomed to fail and George spent his early years hiding from blistering domestic rows in the family’s cramped council flat in a deprived area of Acton” (Source Here)
1967 – “Paddy walked out on Margaret, who was having an affair, to set up home with current wife Babs. Confused and unhappy he fought at school and even turned on his fragile epileptic sister Susan, who he had always guarded” (Source Here)
1970 – Sister Michealina (Michelle Diskin Bates) Moved To Barnes To Live With Their Father Alfred, His New Wife Barbara & Their Chiwawa Dog. “As Her relationship with her mother was not easy and by the age of 15 she was living with her father. ‘My mother was warmer earlier in the marriage,’ she says. ‘And less warm towards the end of it.‘ When Barry asked to move in with his father, he was refused. ‘I’m sure Barry saw it as a rejection. Probably the first of many,’ she says” (Source Here)
1970 – Barry George Was Expelled From Primary School At Aged 10 For Hitting A Teacher
1971 – Barry George Was Sent To Council-Run Heathermount Boarding School In Ascot While His Sister Susan Was Put Into Care
1972 – Heathermount Boarding School Built A Small Bore Rifle Range For Students, Which Barry George Probably Used. It Closed The Following Year (Source Here)
1973 – Michealina George Moved To Ireland. Michealina Is Now Known As Michelle Diskin Bates. According To Statements Made By Her She Saw Her Brother Barry A Total Of 4 Times In 27 Years
A Former Pupil At Heathermount School Claimed Barry George Was A Bully & Had Sexually Assaulted Him (Source Here)
1974 – Alfred George Moved To Australia With His Second Wife Barbara
May-September 1976 – Aged 16 Barry George Worked As A Messenger For The BBC At Television House, Wood Lane, London
Barry George Moved Into A High-Rise Tower Block Overlooking Shepherd’s Bush Roundabout, West London. His Step-Sister Maria Went On To State “It stank and you could hardly get in the door for rubbish. But most disturbing of all were the piles of gun magazines that stretched in columns to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds of them“
March 1980 – Using The Name Paul Gadd, Fraudster Barry George Tried To Con His Way Into A Woman’s Home In Surrey Pretending To Be A Police Officer (Source Here) He Asked The Judge Who Sentenced Him To Take Into Consideration 5 Other Similar Offences (Source Here)
The West London Observer Exposed Barry George (When He Was Known As Paul Gadd) As A Fraudster When He Stole A Trophy & Then Used It To Pretend He Was A British Karate Champion
Countless Attacks On Women, Including Actress June Elvin & Another Woman Who Was Working As A Civil Servant (Source Here)
18th March 1980 – Arrested For Indecent Assault
5th May 1980 – Iranian Embassy Siege Concluded
5th August 1980 – Arrested For Indecent Assault
1981 – Aged 21, Barry George’s Application To Join The Regular Army Was Turned Down
1981 – Barry George Met 17 Year-Old Girlfriend Margot Bovell. The Relationship Lasted Around 2 Years. Friends Claimed Barry George Was A ‘Control Freak’ (Source Here, Here & Here)
11th June 1981 – Barry GeorgeStood Trial For Two Separate Indecent Assault Charges. He Got Off For His Indecent Assault Attack Of June Elvin But Found Guilty Of Another Indecent Assault Charge. He Only Received A Suspended Prison Sentence
17th September 1981 – Alan Warriner Of Tubitt Scaffolding Sponsored Barry George, Who Had Changed His Name By Deedpoll To Steve Francis Majors, To Jump Over 4 Buses On Rollerskates At Nottingham’s Long Eaton Stadium(Source Here)
It Is Not Known If Barry George Was Working For Tubbit Scaffolding For Cash In Hand
5th December 1981 – Joined Territorial Army Under Alias Steve Majors (Source Here) Former Sergeant Major Leslie Lindsay, who gave evidence during Barry George’s 1st trial, said that “Mr George would have been involved in stripping and assembling self-loading rifles and machine guns”
When Alfred George Discovered His Son Barry George Had Access To Guns In The Territorial Army He Asked Him To Quit (Source Here)
7th February 1982 – Barry George Raped A 20 Year-Old Woman, Pretended He Was In The Royal Air Force (RAF) Then Claimed As His Defence He Was Allegedly “Lonely & Rejected”
August-15th September 1982 – Barry George Joined Kensington & Chelsie Gun Club & Attended On 8 Occasions Which Would Have Involved Pistol Shooting (Source Here)
17th November 1982 – Left Territorial Army (Source Here) “A senior regimental leader said: “He wasn’t Para material. He was just a wanabee. The system is designed to weed out people like him who think they can get in, look cool in a beret and play with guns” (Source Here) His Records Stated “..it was decided he would not make an effective soldier” (Source Here)
10th January 1983 – Caught By The Royal Protection Squad In Kensington Palace Grounds Wearing His TA Uniform & In Possession Of A Large Knife, Length Of Rope & Poem. He Was Not Charged With Any Offence. Barry George Had Been Seen Loitering Near The Princess Of Wales Home A Total Of Four Times In The Same Year (Source Here)
21st January 1983 – Arrested & Charged With Rape
29th March 1983 – Convicted At The Old Bailey For His Rape Of Lesser Offence Of Attempted Rape (Source Here)
1985 – Following His Release From Prison Barry George Began Using The Alias Thomas Palmer, Going On To Meet Janice Dobbins & Her 13 Year Old Son David Dobbins, Along With Susan Coombe (Source Here)
July 1985 – Sister Susan George Married Edward Derek Towler
1986 – Barry George Crept Up On Janice Dobbins With A Gun In Her Pelham Street, Fulham Home, On Another Occasion He Also Fired A Handgun Into The Dobbins Home
April 1986 – Susan Towler (Nee George) Died During The Early Stages Of Pregnancy, Following An Epileptic Seizure. Alfred George Returned To England To Attend His Daughters Funeral, Which Barry George Did Not Attend
1988 – Barry George Moved Into His Crookham Road Flat In Fulham
1988 – Barry George Was Questioned By Police In Relation To A Series Of Rapes (Source Here)
2nd May 1989 – Married Japanese Student Itsuko Toide So That She Could Get A Work Permit. Barry George Went On To Assault Her & She Reported His Assault To Police
29th October 1989 – Arrested & Charged For His Assault Of Itsuko Toide, Who Claimed Barry George Had Tried To Kill Her, But Case Not Pursued To Court (Source Here)
April 1990 – Arrested & Charged For Indecent Assault But Case Not Pursued To Court (Source Here)
1991 – Applied To Become A Member Of The Royal Green Jackets & Field Ambulance Volunteers
January 1992 – Arrested & Charged With Indecent Assault But Case Not Pursued To Court(Source Here)
1992 – Questioned In Relation To Murder Of Rachel Nickell
Barry George’s Abuse Of Women Continued Throughout The 90’s But He Was Not Convicted For Any Of His Offences
1996 – Barry George Visited A Jewellers In Carnaby Street & Claimed To The Assistant He Was Freddie Mercury’s Cousin. The Assistant Had Asked Him If He Had Met Anyone Famous & He Said Diana, Princess Of Wales & The Woman From Crimewatch (Source Here)
28th October 1997 – GP Noted Barry George “Quite Clearly Has A Personality Disorder, Otherwise He Is Of Normal, Average Intelligence”. The Doctor Recommended That He Have A Proper Psychiatric Assessment But George Didn’t Attend His Appointment
Stalking, Intimidation & Harassment Of Margaret Milortholland & Fiona Maffeo (Source Here)
Over 15 Years Barry George Secretly Tracked 419 Women Making Reams Of Notes Of Their Movements (Source Here)
6th & 9th April 1999 – Barry George Purchased A Number Of Items Of Military Equipment (Source Here)
26th April 1999 – Jill Dando Murdered By LoneGunman Barry George
27th April 1999 – Killer Barry George Purchased Some Flowers & Laid Them Near His Crime Scene, With A Card Saying He Felt “Concern & Remorse” (Source Here & Here)
28th April 1999 – Killer Barry “George had told a journalist his name was Barry Bulsara, a persona the jury has been told he used when passing himself off as the cousin of the Queen singer Freddie Mercury. George told the reporter he used to see Dando on Crimewatch and “she seemed a lovely lady” (Source Here)
9th May 1999 – Killer Barry George Told Fellow Bus Passenger Vicky Murphy He Was Going To Jill Dando’s Memorial “Laidlaw said George ‘was fiddling with a piece of paper which he claimed he was going to read from at the service. He said he did not know Miss Dando well, but that she had interviewed his cousin Freddie Mercury’ said the prosecutor” (Source Here)
June 1999 – Barry George Went To Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s Planning Office To Register An Objection With An Officer Regarding A Neighbours Plan To Alter Their Home (Source Here)
11th January 2000 – Killer Barry George Had Stated In His Police Notice Of Alibi That He Had Left His Crookham Road Home On 26th April 1999 At 10.30-10.45pm (Source Here)
24th February 2000 – Police Action No 1637 – Trace, Interview & Eliminate Barry Bulsara
11th April 2000 – DC Gallagher Visited Barry George & Took A Police Witness Statement
‘Detective constable John Gallagher said after his arrest(Barry) George Stated On The Day Of His Murder He Had Been At Home All Morning Before Going To HAFAD At 12.30pm-12.45pm. He Also Stated “I wore either my dark suit with a white shirt and a red tie and a black overcoat or… jeans”
“Police believe George followed Miss Dando on several occasions before he killed her. Eighteen months before Miss Dando was shot, George told a complete stranger that he had a famous friend, “a very special lady“, and pointed out the road where Miss Dando lived” (Source Here)
25th May 2000 – Arrested For His Murder Of Jill Dando
Barry ‘George had claimed to have seen a Range Rover “acting suspiciously” on the day Miss Dando was killed’ (Source Here)
Barry George “..told police in a video-taped interview after his arrest in May 2000 that he had written an entry in a notebook about a “GI 45 8mm blank firing government automatic”. Asked: “The price £55, is noted. Is that the price that you paid for the gun?” George replied: “It was in and around that price.” He said he thought he had bought the gun by mail order from a shop in Sussex. “It came in a box,” he said (Source Here)
29th May 2000 – Charged For His Murder Of Jill Dando
NOTE Found In Killer Barry George’s Crookham Road Flat Reading – “I have difficulty handling rejection. I become angry … it starts a chain of events which is beyond my control”
26th February 2001 – Killer Barry George’s Trial For His Murder Of Jill Dando Began
2nd July 2001 – Killer Barry George Found Guilty
August 2001 – Key Prosecution Witness David Dobbins Found Dead (Source Here)
2002 – Killer Barry George Admitted His Guilt To His Murder (Source Here)
29th July 2002 – Court Of Appeal Upheld Killer Barry George’s Murder Conviction
20th June 2007 – Criminal Cases Review Commission Announced It Was Referring Killer Barry George’s Murder Conviction To Court Of Appeal
22nd August 2007 – Killer Barry George Refused Bail
5th-7th November 2007 – Killer Barry George’s Appeal Heard
15th November 2007 – Court Of Appeal Announced It Would Allow Killer Barry George’s Appeal – Judgement [2007] EWCA Crim 2722 Here
8th July 2008 – Jury Told Barry George’s £55 Bruni Handgun Could Have Been Murder Weapon (Source Here)
13th July 2008 – Jury Shown Photo Of Barry George Holding His £55 Gun Wearing Military Respirator (Source Here)
1st August 2008 – Killer Barry George Found Not Guilty Following A Re-Trial
11th May 2011 – Supreme Court Judgement [2011] UKSC 18 Here
On the day he murdered Jill Dando, killer Barry George was seen by Julia Moorhouse at around 12.33pm.
Julia Moorhouse said that Barry George had crossed the road to talk to her around an hour after he had committed his murder.
Excerpts from a Guardian article read;
Mrs Moorhouse said she had been standing on the corner of a street close to the murder scene at 12.30pm on April 26 when a man approached and started talking to her about the helicopters hovering overhead.
“He said they were police helicopters. He gave details of what kind they were. He appeared to have technical knowledge… I turned to go. He came with me. I did not expect that.
“The whole situation struck me as slightly odd. He mentioned the Territorial Army. I think he may have said he had done training or was associated with it… either as an instructor or something”
Uncle Mike Burke referred to a conversation he had with his nephew Barry George’s barristers William Clegg and Jeffrey Samuels and stated;
Uncle Mike Burke
Outside the courtroom I spoke with Mr Clegg and Samuels.
We discussed Julia Moorhouse, the women who described being spoken to by a man who could have been Barry approx an hour after Jill Dando’s murder.
I felt her description of the man was too like Barry to be coincidence, and as she reported the meeting to the police straight away on that day it sounded genuine.
We agreed the man she met probably was Barry but disagreed as to whether they met before of after he had visited HAFAD.
The Crown claimed before, which would support their case
Excerpts from Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder first published in June 2011– Source here
Barry George admitted he had spoken to Julia Moorhouse when he spoke to the media following his retrial.
As previously referred to in Part 18 of this blog series here, Mike Burke also highlighted this fact stating;
In their ‘World Exclusive’ he was quoted as saying ‘After leaving HAFAD I bumped into a woman who was later a prosecution witness and said I was stalking her…That was at 12.33pm…’
That was obviously a reference to Julia Moorhouse who he had always denied meeting.
Excerpts by uncle Mike Burke
One Of Umpteen Innocence Fraud Red Flags
Michelle Diskin Bates chose to ghost Julia Moorhouse and her evidence from a book she had published in 2018, preferring instead to refer to the actress Julia Roberts.
Yet she repeatedly claims;
When he was released from custody in August 2008, Barry George publicly stated he had met with Julia Moorhouse. He stated;
I walked with her for a bit and, from her perspective, maybe it was unwanted attention. But she didn’t make that clear.
It didn’t seem like she was telling me to go away.
If she’d told me to leave I’d have done so straight away.
That was at 12.33pm.
I know because just a minute before I’d made a call from my mobile to check how much credit I had left.
Statements by Barry George on 1st August 2008 – Source here
Michael Naughton, who was involved in the innocence fraud of killer Simon Hall, wrote the foreword for Michelle Diskin Bates.
Killer, rapist, serial stalker & con artist Barry George
Niamh Horan
In Niamh Horan’s 1st October 2023 article for the Irish Independent headed ‘My brother Barry George was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’ she stated;
When police searched his flat they found rolls of camera film which contained 2,248 photographs of 419 young women
Niamh Horan
Niamh Horan does not provide any sources for the numbers she has quoted in her article, however other media outlets have stated that the rolls of film contained 2,597 photographs.
Michelle Diskin Bates is even quoted, on the 27th August 2002, by Rebecca Hardy here as stating it was 2,597 photographs.
The ages of each of the 419 victims has never been made known.
Pornography
Referring to Michelle Diskin Bates, Niamh Horan stated;
Although people may see the hordes of photographs as suspicious, she stresses they were undeveloped.
“He was not poring over them night after night.
They were not pornographic,” she says.
Michelle Diskin Bates stated to Niamh Horan that she was “dismayed at what the film-makers left out”.
David Dobbins, who met Barry George after he came out of prison in 1985 for his rape of a woman, said that;
George showed the youngsters porn pictures and took them to venues frequented by Japanese tourists, like Hammersmith’s Cunard Hotel.
Here, he would make clumsy attempts to chat up women.
What volume of pornographic material was seized from Barry George’s Crookham Road flat?
Sister Attempts To Rebrand Her Brothers Predatory Behaviour
Referring to the thousands of photographs taken by her sex offender brother Barry George, Michelle Diskin Bates attempted to suggest her brothers prolific stalking, sexual harassment and intimidation of women was his way “to make conversation;”
Rather than stalking the women, the photographs were “a way to make conversations with people, for a man with communication difficulties”
Niamh Horan for the Irish Independent article headed ‘My brother was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder’ dated 1st October 2023
Michelle Diskin Bates even suggested that Barry George’s unsuspecting victims had been “posing;”
Seeing the photographs, Diskin Bates says she thought:
“Oh, Barry, that woman didn’t want her photograph taken. I could tell. But the others were posing”
Excerpts from Niamh Horan’s 1st October 2023 article for the Irish Independent
Again – as already highlighted in Part 8 of this ongoing blog series (Read more here), Michelle Diskin Bates allegedly saw her brother 3 times in 27 years;
On one occasion when he attended her first wedding in Ireland, on another occasion when she allegedly visited him in prison in the early eighties and on a final occasion when she made a “rare” visit to see her mother Margaret in London.
The following TIMELINE details some of Barry George’s crimes;
Killer Barry George alongside his oldest biological sister Michelle Diskin Bates
Lack Of Due Diligence, MAPPA Restrictions & Unsubstantiated Claims
Writer Niamh Horan has today (1st October 2023) had an article published for the Irish Independent headed ‘My brother Barry George was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’
The byline reads;
The sister of the man acquitted of killing TV presenter Jill Dando speaks of his fear over Netflix documentary and of his life in Co Cork
Niamh Horan stated that Jill Dando’s killer Barry George;
…was released in 2008 after being unanimously acquitted at a retrial
Niamh Horan
One factor Niamh Horan failed to highlight to her readers was that Barry George was released from custody in 2008 under MAPPA (multi-agency public protection arrangements) restrictions due to his dangerousness – especially towards women.
Niamh Horan stated of Barry George;
Today George lives in a quiet village in Co Cork.
He spends his days visiting shops, chatting to locals who have become familiar with him. And — until last week — he went about his business without much attention.
With the Netflix documentary, it seems that is about to change.
Niamh Horan
Michelle Diskin Bates is then quoted as stating;
It was always a risk.
We had to ask ourselves is the gain going to be bigger than anything we might lose?
Michelle Diskin Bates
Niamh Horan then stated;
Since the series began streaming, George,….. has been phoning his sister several times a day in panic
However Ms Horan does not substantiate her claim with any proof and Michelle Diskin Bates statement of “He contacted me straight away that day” suggests Michelle only received the one phone call from her brother.
Where is the evidence from Niamh Horan that “George, has been phoning his sister several times a day in panic”?
Michelle Diskin Bates is then quoted as stating;
He is looking over his shoulder because somebody took photographs of him in his village as he went to the doctor’s
Michelle Diskin Bates
The Netflix docu series did not begin streaming until the 26th of September 2023.
Two weeks before this – on the 12th of September – Michelle Diskin Bates made the following post on one of her numerous social media accounts;
On the 1st October 2023 Michelle Diskin Bates published the following statement on X, formally known as twitter;
Niamh Horan also wrongly stated in her article;
British barrister Michael Mansfield KC, once described as “the king of human rights work”, represented George at his retrial.
Niamh Horan
William Clegg represented Barry George at his retrial, not Michael Mansfield!
Niamh Horan went on to state of Michelle Diskin Bates;
Diskin Bates was living in Co Cork when a news report flashed on the radio.
It said a man had been arrested for Dando’s murder.
Her relief turned to horror when her brother was named.
Niamh Horan
As already stated in Part 8 of this blog series, which can be read here, some months before her brother committed his murder of Jill Dando, Michelle Diskin Bates had “signed” herself into a psychiatric facility.
This apparently occurred because her life had become “humdrum, tedious and unfulfilling”.
Michelle Diskin Bates stated;
Life became humdrum, tedious and unfulfilling.
I was a mental wreck, psychologically impaired.
I’d signed myself into the psychiatric ward a few weeks ago when I felt like my mind was imploding.
The young doctor who’d interviewed me to assess my condition had asked, “Michelle, are you suicidal?”
Struggling up through the pain and fog, I thought for a moment before I answered, “No, but if I go home, I will die!”
Excerpts from Michelle Diskin Bates book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018
Michelle Diskin Bates moved to Ireland, from England in 1973.
Michelle has publicly claimed she only saw her brother 3 times in those 27 years, going on to claim she lost touch with Barry George completely by 1988.
15th April 1960 – Barry Michael George Was Born. He Was Said To Be “..a difficult child, wild, unpredictable and other-worldly. His parents, former soldier and special constable Paddy – now 71 – and care assistant Margaret, brought him into the world in a last-ditch attempt to save their stormy marriage. The relationship was doomed to fail and George spent his early years hiding from blistering domestic rows in the family’s cramped council flat in a deprived area of Acton” (Source Here)
1967 – “Paddy walked out on Margaret, who was having an affair, to set up home with current wife Babs. Confused and unhappy he fought at school and even turned on his fragile epileptic sister Susan, who he had always guarded” (Source Here)
1970 – Sister Michealina (Michelle Diskin Bates) Moved To Barnes To Live With Their Father Alfred, His New Wife Barbara & Their Chiwawa Dog. “As Her relationship with her mother was not easy and by the age of 15 she was living with her father. ‘My mother was warmer earlier in the marriage,’ she says. ‘And less warm towards the end of it.‘ When Barry asked to move in with his father, he was refused. ‘I’m sure Barry saw it as a rejection. Probably the first of many,’ she says” (Source Here)
1970 – Barry George Was Expelled From Primary School At Aged 10 For Hitting A Teacher
1971 – Barry George Was Sent To Council-Run Heathermount Boarding School In Ascot While His Sister Susan Was Put Into Care
1972 – Heathermount Boarding School Built A Small Bore Rifle Range For Students, Which Barry George Probably Used. It Closed The Following Year (Source Here)
1973 – Michealina George Moved To Ireland. Michealina Is Now Known As Michelle Diskin Bates. According To Statements Made By Her She Saw Her Brother Barry A Total Of 4 Times In 27 Years
A Former Pupil At Heathermount School Claimed Barry George Was A Bully & Had Sexually Assaulted Him (Source Here)
1974 – Alfred George Moved To Australia With His Second Wife Barbara
May-September 1976 – Aged 16 Barry George Worked As A Messenger For The BBC At Television House, Wood Lane, London
Barry George Moved Into A High-Rise Tower Block Overlooking Shepherd’s Bush Roundabout, West London. His Step-Sister Maria Went On To State “It stank and you could hardly get in the door for rubbish. But most disturbing of all were the piles of gun magazines that stretched in columns to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds of them“
March 1980 – Using The Name Paul Gadd, Fraudster Barry George Tried To Con His Way Into A Woman’s Home In Surrey Pretending To Be A Police Officer
A month prior to his 20th birthday Barry George was arrested and charged for impersonating a police officer. He tried to join the Metropolitan police, but was turned down before interview. He used the Met’s headed paper to make a false warrant card.
Excerpts from a media article on this offence read;
It was a crude deception and he was found out when he approached a woman who seemed to be having difficulties with her husband.
He took her address and visited her the next day but her son became suspicious and called the police.
Barry George asked the judge at Kingston court to consider five other similar offences (Source Here)
The West London Observer Exposed Barry George (When He Was Known As Paul Gadd) As A Fraudster When He Stole A Trophy & Then Used It To Pretend He Was A British Karate Champion
Countless Attacks On Women
Below are excerpts from a media article describing some of Barry George’s behaviour on one of his countless victims;
June Elvin
In March 1980 an actress called June Elvin, who had appeared in Ealing films and the police series Z Cars, was confronted by a man as she walked into the entrance hall of her block of flats in Barons Court, west London.
“He pulled open one side of the gates to the lift, I did the other,” she said.
“It was a tiny lift with only room for two. Halfway up he stopped the lift and attacked me. He tried to touch me, to put his hand up my skirt. I screamed and shouted and fought back”
The man fled when a friend of Ms Elvin’s heard the commotion and ran to help.
Though he was acquitted of this offence in June 1981, George was convicted of assaulting another woman.
According to reports of this case, George followed the civil servant and asked her out.
When she rejected him, he grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. He received a three-month suspended prison sentence.
1981 – Aged 21, Barry George’s Application To Join The Regular Army Was Turned Down
11th June 1981 – Stood Trial For Two Separate Indecent Assault Charges
Barry George was found not guilty on the first offence, which was related to his attack on June Elvin, but he was found guilty and convicted for the second indecent assault charge.
Barry George was only sentenced to three months imprisonment, which was suspended for two years – meaning he did not go to prison.
17th September 1981 – Alan Warriner Of Tubitt Scaffolding Sponsored Barry George, Who Had Changed His Name By Deedpoll To Steve Francis Majors, To Jump Over 4 Buses On Rollerskates At Nottingham’s Long Eaton Stadium(Source Here)
On 17th September, 1981 using the alias Steve Majors, Barry George carried out in Nottingham’s Long Eaton stadium, where he jumped over a row of four double decker buses on in-line roller-skates.
Barry George (Aka Steve Majors) aged 20
It Is Not Known If Barry George Was Working For Tubbit Scaffolding For Cash In Hand
5th December 1981 – Joined Territorial Army(Source Here)
In December 1981 Barry George joined the territorial army under his alias Steve Francis Major.
Former Sergeant Major Leslie Lindsay, who gave evidence during Barry George’s 1st trial, said that “Mr George would have been involved in stripping and assembling self-loading rifles and machine guns”.
Uncle Mike Burke (also spelt Bourke) claimed of his nephew;
He was then training with the Territorial Army.
He called to visit me one evening at my place in Shepherds Bush, dressed in army gear and carrying a large kitbag.
He told me that he had to report to barracks due to the war. I walked him to the bus stop which was next to my local pub, the Askew Arms.
He wanted to come in with me but I lied and told him that it was full of mad Irish who would attack him because of his uniform.
I was relieved when the bus came and he was gone.
Excerpts from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published in October 2016
When Alfred George Discovered His Son Barry George Had Access To Guns In The Territorial Army He Asked Him To Quit (Source Here)
7th February 1982 – Barry George Raped A 20 Year-Old Woman, Pretended He Was In The Royal Air Force (RAF) Then Claimed As His Defence He Was Allegedly “Lonely & Rejected”
Barry George remained with the territorial army until November 1982, attending a total of “29 voluntary training days” between the end of 1981 and end of 1982.
In February, 1982, George approached a 20-year-old languages student outside Turnham Green Tube station in west London.
She thought he was a harmless eccentric.
He walked with her and tried to impress her by saying “How are you?” in German.
In a dark stairwell outside her parent’s flat in Acton, George attacked her.
He clamped his hand over her mouth and pushed her arm behind her back.
Terrified she was going to suffocate, she pleaded with him to let her go, but he continued, forcing her to the ground and pulling at her clothing.
The woman, who is now married with two children, claimed she was raped.
August-15th September 1982 – Joined Gun Club (Source Here)
In August 1982, aged 22, Barry George joined the Kensington and Chelsea Pistol Club “as a probationary member but in September his application for full membership was rejected”.
He attended on eight occasions where he was involved in pistol shooting.
17th November 1982 – Left Territorial Army (Source Here) “A senior regimental leader said: “He wasn’t Para material. He was just a wanabee. The system is designed to weed out people like him who think they can get in, look cool in a beret and play with guns” (Source Here) His Records Stated “..it was decided he would not make an effective soldier” (Source Here)
10th January 1983 – Caught In Kensington PalaceGrounds. Barry George Had Been Seen Loitering Near The Princess Of Wales Home A Total Of Four Times In The Same Year (Source Here)
Barry George was found by the royal protection squad hiding in bushes at Kensington palace. He was wearing his territorial army clothing and was found to be in possession of a knife, a length of rope and a open he had written addressed to the princess of wales.
Barry George was not charged with any offence related to this incident, although this incident did see him linked to his 7th of February 1982 rape.
21st January 1983 – Arrested & Charged With Rape
29th March 1983 – Convicted Of Lesser Offence Of Attempted Rape
A media article stated;
He appeared at the Old Bailey in March 1983 under the name Steve Majors (Lee Majors played Steve Austin in the popular series the Six Million Dollar Man).
The judge was told he assaulted her because he felt “lonely and rejected”.
George was convicted of attempted rape and sentenced to 33 months.
1985 – Following His Release From Prison Barry George Began Using The Alias Thomas Palmer, Going On To Meet Janice Dobbins & Her 13 Year Old Son David Dobbins, Along With Susan Coombe
On his release from prison for his February 1982 rape, Barry George ended up living in a bed and breakfast hostel called Stanhope Gardens Hotel, which was located in Kensington, West London. He also lived at the Conrad hotel in Gloucester Road under the alias Thomas Palmer, who was the name of an SAS soldier involved in the rescue of hostages from the Iranian embassy siege of 1980 (Source Here)
A media article stated;
Killer Barry George
Statements from Janice Dobbins, who is now dead but knew George in the Eighties when he lived at the Stanhope Gardens hotel in Kensington, were read to the court today.
At that time George called himself Thomas Palmer, the name of a real-life SAS hero.
Mrs Dobbins told how she was in the hotel TV room with other guests when “all of a sudden from behind the curtain a man jumped out wearing combat gear, a gas mask, a ski mask, a belt with shotgun cartridges and holding a small machine gun about 2ft long in both hands. I screamed and jumped off the sofa. He ran but I recognised it was Thomas. Everyone went mad and started swearing at him. He just laughed.”
She said George would regularly dress in combat gear and carry the gun around the hotel. He claimed he was a member of the SAS and had helped to free the hostages in the Iranian embassy siege of 1980.
George kept in touch with her after she moved to Fulham. “One night about 2am I was having drinks in the flat with friends when the window opened and a gun was pushed through into the living room,” she said.
“I saw a figure holding it and just knew it was Thomas. He was wearing a ski mask … Everybody screamed and panicked and the figure left.”
Mrs Dobbins continued: “I was aware he would go to Kensington Park, Hyde Park and Holland Park where he followed women.
He would be in my company and then just go off and follow women and I would not see him again until he was back at the hotel.
“This did not surprise me because he would often go up to women in the street and start chatting.
“He would hand out business-type cards and at one stage printed leaflets offering his services teaching English to Japanese girls.”
By 1985 he had collected several pieces of military equipment, including an imitation Heckler Koch machine gun, a starting pistol and a gas mask.
A friend he allowed into his room at a bed and breakfast in Kensington saw a third weapon, a polished silver pistol, carefully wrapped in tissue paper and kept in a shoe box.
This gun has never been found.
Barry George’s uncle Mike Burke stated;
Susan Coombe lived at an address which Barry also lived at in 1985.
She described how he had replica guns which he showed to people.
But she also said that there was a silver gun which he kept concealed in a shoebox.
She claimed that he admitted to her that he followed women to see if they were single.
Susan also confirmed that the photo of the man posing with the gun and gasmask was taken inside Barry’s home.
Excerpts from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mikes Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published in October 2016
July 1985 – Sister Susan George Married Edward Derek Towler
1986 – Barry George Crept Up On Janice Dobbins With A Gun In Her Pelham Street, Fulham Home, On Another Occasion He Also Fired A Handgun Into The Dobbins Home
A media article stated;
The police had found advertisements in his flat for deactivated weapons showing where they could be bought
A photograph of him wearing a gasmask and holding a handgun, finger on trigger was found by police.
There was a break in the gun exposing a spring.
That was said to show that he had an interest in altering guns.
Barry denied during police questioning that it was him in the photograph, and claimed the gun; a blank firing replica was stolen by his friend David Dobbins.
In evidence David Dobbins described an incident where Barry discharged a blank firing pistol at David’s mother’s house, frightening him.
Excerpts from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mikes Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published in October 2016
Another article stated;
A witness has told the jury in the Jill Dando murder trial that the alleged killer of the TV presenter once owned two guns.
David Dobbins, who said he was once a friend of the defendant, Barry George, claimed the alleged killer fired a handgun into his hallway while visiting.
“I was at my front door. I opened it. He came in and let it off. It was a surprise for me,” Mr Dobbins told the Old Bailey on Friday.
Mr Dobbins said he had also seen military equipment, including a pistol and imitation sub-machine gun, in Barry George’s room when they shared bed and breakfast accommodation in the 1980s.
Mr Dobbins, who was 13 when they were at the same B&B hotel in 1985, said George had been protective about his room.
He said he had also seen military equipment, combat clothing, webbing, a gas mask and knives in Mr George’s room.
Mr Dobbins said he was living in a basement flat with his family when Mr George, who also goes by the name of Barry Bulsara, fired the gun in the hallway.
He had opened the door and Mr George pushed his way in holding the firearm in his right hand.
He said that Mr George’s gun had blanks in it, but the defendant also showed him a box of live ammunition.
“He was trying to frighten us – playing some sort of prank. It was pretty scary.
“He was very possessive and would not let us touch it,” Mr Dobbins told the court.
Susan Coombe, who was at the same hotel at the time Mr George had stayed, remembered him showing two guns to residents in the lounge.
Ms Coombe said: “He said he was with the SAS. He showed us a card with a picture of him in a beige beret with a handgun and SAS emblem of a dagger and two wings.
“He did not like people in his room. He was very interested in guns. He would talk about guns all the time.”
April 1986 – Susan Towler (Nee George) Died During The Early Stages Of Pregnancy, Following An Epileptic Seizure. Alfred George Returned To England To Attend His Daughters Funeral, Which Barry George Did Not Attend
1987/88 – David Dobbins Alleged He, Eugene Mahoney & Two Of Their Friends Stole Barry George’s Blank Firing Pistol & Imitation Heckler & Koch Machine Pistol. They Did Not Find His Silver Bruning Handgun (Source Here)
Mr Dobbins said he and other friends had gone round to George’s home in Crookham Road, Fulham in the late 1980s. He had taken the respirator and sub-machine gun and a friend the handgun.
The Heckler Koch ended up in the toy box, he said. He sold the respirator after losing interest ‘‘in things like that”
1988 – Barry George Moved Into His Crookham Road Flat In Fulham
1988 – Barry George Was Questioned By Police In Relation To A Series Of Rapes (Source Here)
2nd May 1989 – Married Japanese Student Itsuko Toide & Assaulted Her
Four months after the wedding, Miss Toide went to the police claiming George had assaulted her. He was arrested and charged on October 29 1989, but the case was dropped before it reached court.
29th October 1989 – Arrested & Charged For His Assault Of Itsuko Toide, Who Claimed Barry George Had Tried To Kill Her, But Case Not Pursued To Court (Source Here)
April 1990 – Arrested & Charged For Indecent Assault But Case Not Pursued To Court (Source Here)
1991 – Applied To Become A Member Of The Royal Green Jackets & Field Ambulance Volunteers
January 1992 – Arrested & Charged With Indecent Assault But Case Not Pursued To Court(Source Here)
1992 – Questioned In Relation To Murder Of Rachel Nickell
Barry George’s Abuse Of Women Continued Throughout The 90’s But He Was Not Convicted For Any Of His Offences
1996 – Barry George Visited A Jewellers In Carnaby Street & Claimed To The Assistant He Was Freddie Mercury’s Cousin. The Assistant Had Asked Him If He Had Met Anyone Famous & He Said Diana, Princess Of Wales & The Woman From Crimewatch (Source Here)
28th October 1997 – GP Noted Barry George “Quite Clearly Has A Personality Disorder, Otherwise He Is Of Normal, Average Intelligence”
The doctor recommended George should have a proper psychiatric assessment at the Riverside health authority in west London. An appointment was made, but George didn’t go.
Angela Gordon, told police how George approached her as she opened the door to her flat opposite his home and asked: ‘Do you live here?’ He allegedly told her he was in the SAS and asked to kiss her. Miss Gordon rebuffed his advances and fled into her home. A photograph of her car was later found on undeveloped film at George’s home.
Another woman, Amanda Scriven, claimed that George would follow her on his bike as she walked from Parsons Green tube station. He did it in a manner ‘designed to intimidate’ and refused to stop, even when challenged. Mr Laidlaw said: ‘On one occasion, he held a camera to Miss Scriven’s face and took pictures until she pushed it away.’
Mr Laidlaw said a woman named Claudia Casey was also targeted in the street by George. ‘She tried to get away from him by walking more quickly but he grabbed her arm and said, “But I only want to talk”. She was terrified and jumped into the passenger seat of a passing car and explained to the driver what had gone on.’
Stalking, Intimidation & Harassment Of Margaret Milortholland & Fiona Maffeo
Margaret Milortholland said she was “petrified” when George stared at her on a Tube train. He then allegedly followed her asking her out. Months later he appeared outside Fulham home, saying, “Now I know where you live.”
Make-up artist Fiona Maffeo said she endured seven years of harassment living in George’s street.
He once left a note on her car windscreen saying he had been watching her and she reminded him of a “child in a woman’s body”.
Over 15 Years Barry George Secretly Tracked 419 Women Making Reams Of Notes Of Their Movements (Source Here)
6th & 9th April 1999 – Barry George Purchased A Number Of Items Of Military Equipment (Source Here)
26th April 1999 – Jill Dando Murdered By LoneGunman Barry George
27th April 1999 – Killer Barry George Purchased Some Flowers & Laid Them Near His Crime Scene, With A Card Saying He Felt “Concern & Remorse” (Source Here & Here)
28th April 1999 – Killer Barry “George had told a journalist his name was Barry Bulsara, a persona the jury has been told he used when passing himself off as the cousin of the Queen singer Freddie Mercury. George told the reporter he used to see Dando on Crimewatch and “she seemed a lovely lady” (Source Here)
9th May 1999 – Killer Barry George Told Fellow Bus Passenger Vicky Murphy He Was Going To Jill Dando’s Memorial “Laidlaw said George ‘was fiddling with a piece of paper which he claimed he was going to read from at the service. He said he did not know Miss Dando well, but that she had interviewed his cousin Freddie Mercury’ said the prosecutor” (Source Here)
June 1999 – Barry George Went To Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s Planning Office To Register An Objection With An Officer Regarding A Neighbours Plan To Alter Their Home (Source Here)
11th January 2000 – Killer Barry George Had Stated In His Police Notice Of Alibi That He Had Left His Crookham Road Home On 26th April 1999 At 10.30-10.45pm (Source Here)
24th February 2000 – Police Action No 1637 – Trace, Interview & Eliminate Barry Bulsara
11th April 2000 – DC Gallagher Visited Barry George & Took A Police Witness Statement
BarryGeorge Stated On The Day Of His Murder He Had Been At Home All Morning Before Going To HAFAD At 12.30pm-12.45pm. He Also Stated “I wore either my dark suit with a white shirt and a red tie and a black overcoat or… jeans”
“Police believe George followed Miss Dando on several occasions before he killed her. Eighteen months before Miss Dando was shot, George told a complete stranger that he had a famous friend, “a very special lady“, and pointed out the road where Miss Dando lived” (Source Here)
25th May 2000 – Arrested For His Murder Of Jill Dando
‘Detective constable John Gallagher said after his arrest(Barry)George had claimed to have seen a Range Rover “acting suspiciously” on the day Miss Dando was killed’ (Source Here)
29th May 2000 – Charged For His Murder Of Jill Dando
NOTE Found In Killer Barry George’s Crookham Road Flat Reading – “I have difficulty handling rejection. I become angry … it starts a chain of events which is beyond my control”
26th February 2001 – Killer Barry George’s Trial For His Murder Of Jill Dando Began
2nd July 2001 – Killer Barry George Found Guilty
August 2001 – Key Prosecution Witness David Dobbins Found Dead
A witness in the Jill Dando trial who gave important evidence against Barry George, the man convicted of the murder of the television presenter, has been found hanged at his home, it emerged yesterday.
David Dobbins, 30, was discovered by a relative on Thursday at his flat in Fulham, south-west London. It is understood he had been suffering from depression.
He told the jury that George owned an imitation Heckler and Koch MP5 machine gun, and a blank-firing handgun, as well as “a few knives”.
Mr Dobbins’s family moved to another address in 1986, but George continued to see them.
Did Michelle Diskin Bates Really “Reach Out” To Killer Raphael Rowe Like He Claimed?
During Part 3 of the Who Killed Jill Dando? docu series, innocence fraud killer Raphael Rowe stated (at around 38:23);
A few years after Barry George was convicted his sister reached out to me
She was asking if I could help highlight the fact that her brother was wrongly in prison
I was at BBC Panorama at the time
But when I was 20 years old I was wrongly convicted of murder and a series of robberies
I spent the next 12 years in maximum security prisons
And Michelle was convincing, you know she sounded like my sister did when my sister was saying ‘help my brother’
Statements by Raphael Rowe via Part 3 of Who Killed Jill Dando?
Scammer Michelle Diskin Bates has made no mention over the years of having reached out to Raphael Rowe.
Why Did Raphael Rowe Omit To Mention Scott Lomax & Uncle Mike Burke?
However Michelle’s and killer Barry George’s uncle Mike Burke (also spelt Bourke) told a different story to the one told by Raphael Rowe.
Mike Burke made the following statements in a book, which detailed his involvement with “Justice4Barry” and Raphael Rowe;
2004 On September 5th I read an e-mail from Scott Lomax telling me about a BBC reporter, Raphael Rowe, who hoped to make a programme about Barry.
I made some discreet enquiries and I was told that ‘He is a good guy, genuine’.
I was happy with that recommendation and decided to contact him.
I phoned him the next day and we had a good long chat.
He was quite up to speed having looked at the websites and appeal court links.
I agreed to contact Barry and his solicitor to see if they might cooperate with a TV programme.
I later spoke to Pat Reynolds who was very enthusiastic when I mentioned Panorama, saying that Panorama could be seen as a turning point, the beginning of the end.
I next visited Barry on Friday October 8th.
I was suffering from a heavy cold, and family tensions were again running high, otherwise the visit went ok.
I got fish and chips and had quiet a miserable evening. ‘Why the hell am I doing this?’ I wondered, not for the first time.
The next day I went to a National Miscarriage of Justice meeting at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square.
When I arrived there were a number of people waiting outside.
I was a little early and waited some distance from them.
A good looking young woman approached me and struck up a conversation.
She quickly guessed that I was connected to Barry, which made me suspect that she was a reporter.
She told me that her husband was in prison for murder but that he was innocent.
To make it better she said that he allegedly had eaten the body of the victim.
I didn’t quite know what to make of her.
I met Hazel from MOJO and we chatted awhile.
The Hall opened and we went in.
I got a cup of tea and then I met Raphael Rowe.
Scott Lomax texted me to say that he had arrived.
He brought along copies of his book on Barry.
It was interesting to meet Scott and Raphael and I hoped meeting Raphael would help to maintain his interest in the case.
2005 I drove to London on Monday the 31st.
I had hoped to visit Barry on Tuesday and Margaret had promised that she would book it in good time.
But she waited until Monday before phoning to book the visit.
She then discovered that there were no visits allowed on Tuesdays.
I was going to a public meeting in the House of Commons on Wednesday and so I had to wait until Thursday to visit him which lost me another precious day’s holiday.
It was a short visit as his solicitor was also due to visit.
Barry was somewhat stressed out as a result.
He was concerned again that some of us would speak to the press.
He got agitated when I told him that Raphael Rowe was interested in the Cutting Edge video, which I had in fact already loaned to Raphael along with a video of the trial reconstruction.
He threatened to sue anybody who might use the Cutting Edge video.
I e-mailed Raphael Rowe asking about news on a documentary.
He replied that Barry and his solicitor had made demands that Raphael could not comply with.
Supporting Barry was often a struggle against the odds, as he seemed to see problems with everything we did or tried to do for him.
I felt that a good opportunity was in danger of being lost and I decided to keep in touch with Raphael in the hope of some development.
July 8th 2006
I recently had to have the hard drive replaced on my computer which cost me 205 Euro.
David James Smith is due to visit Barry early this month if all goes well.
Raphael Rowe is in America researching for a BBC documentary on Barry. He is consulting experts with regard to the single particle.
He phoned me up last week seeking Michelle’s details which he had mislaid.
On July 20 Andy Gardner phoned me. He told me he was now a freelance reporter.
Later Margaret phoned to say that the VO had arrived.
The next day I got a call from a Mail on Sunday reporter, Mr Rice who asked if he came to Ireland would I speak to him.
I agreed and he said he would be over the next day.
I then became a little concerned as I was due to visit Barry and wondered if speaking to the reporter would cause another row.
Fortunately he had also called to Michelle which I thought might take the flak off me.
The report appeared on Sunday and referred to the Panorama programme which was being made by Raphael Rowe.
It mentioned two jurors who were having doubts and who apparently were willing to appear on the programme.
It also mentioned that FBI agents criticised the Met Polices handling of the single particle evidence.
On Monday Raphael asked me not to discuss the programme with MOJO.
I replied that I had fallen out with them in 2001 due to the News of the World article.
But I feared that a last minute hitch might have negative consequences and so I texted Michelle asking her to urge discretion on MOJO.
She replied that they hadn’t known about the programme.
On Thursday August 3rd I again went to London.
It was a good trip, uneventful except for a poor man who finally cracked after over three hours in the ‘quiet’ coach listening to a hyperactive loud child.
On Friday I went to Mario’s café for breakfast.
Later Raphael Rowe phoned Margaret and I spoke to him.
Unknown to us on September 4th a Forensic Science Service report prepared for the CCRC dismissed the FDR evidence which dammed Barry as inconclusive.
In their opinion it provided no support for the prosecutions case that Barry had killed Jill Dando.
It would be another year before we became aware of that.
Raphael Rowe phoned me to say that the Panorama-George programme would be broadcast on September 5th.
I took a day’s holiday to watch it because as luck would have it I was on a late shift and I feared I would not get to see it.
At 21.00 I settled down to watch Panorama.
It began with Raphael saying to Barry over Margaret’s telephone ‘so you didn’t kill Jill?’ …’course not, replied a surprised Barry.
Then the photo of Barry which I got taken at Whitemoor was shown alongside the prison envelope in which it was returned to me after the prison refused to allow Barry to have it.
CCTV footage of Jill Dando on her last journey and a clip of 29 Gowan Avenue was shown, and Helen Doble’s 999 phone call was played.
Mike Burke – Uncle of killer Barry George & Michelle Diskin Bates
PS;
Raphael Rowe did NOT “clear” his name nor has he ever proved he was not responsible for the violent crimes for which he was originally convicted of committing! Read more here
Killer Barry George as Steve Francis Majors on 17th September 1981 at Nottingham’s Long Eaton stadium
Did Barry George Work For Tubitt Scaffolding For Cash In Hand
In 1981 killer Barry George duped Alan Warrener, who owned Tubitt Scaffolding, into sponsoring him.
Barry George had changed his name by deed poll to Steve Francis Majors and had allegedly posed as a stuntman.
It is not known how Barry George met Alan Warriner or if he worked for Tubitt Scaffolding around the time.
However in September 1981 Alan’s business Tubitt Scaffolding built the platform which was used by sexual predator and fraudster Barry George to roller state over four double decker buses.
Barry George had also concocted a convincing fake CV (curriculum vitae) in which he had pretended to have starred in the films Rollerball and Who Dares Wins.
The event took place in Nottingham’s Long Eaton Stadium on the 17th September 1981 and apparently over 5,000 tickets were sold.
Alan Warriner stated of Barry George;
The lad had convinced me he could do it.
He showed me photos supposedly of him doing stunts – and I honestly believed it was him.
On the day the conditions were so bad I begged him not to do the jump I thought he’d die up there.
When he finally got up on the ramp, he almost lost his nerve.
We were all terrified.
But he just pushed himself off knowing that there was no going back.
Statements by Alan Warriner of Tubbit Scaffolders – Source here
How Much Money Did Barry George’s Grift Earn Him?
It is not known how much money Barry George made from this event or if he ever attempted to sue anyone for the injuries he suffered after rolling stating over the four double decker buses.
On landing, after his roller skating stunt, it was found Barry George had dislocated his spine and had fractured a leg.
During Part 3 of Who Killed Jill Dando? (at around 35:20 ) Richard Madeley was seen and heard stating;
Well as Barry George begins his life sentence this morning for the murder of Jill Dando
Many people are contemplating what turned him, from what appeared to be a relatively harmless eccentric, into an astonishingly cold blooded assassin
Richard Madeley
How on earth did anyone come to the conclusion that unpredictable murderer, dangerous sex offender and serial stalker of women Barry George was “arelativelyharmlesseccentric”?
Tap on the button below to read a brief TIMELINE of some of Barry George’s attacks and assaults on some of the women he targeted;
15th April 1960 – Barry Michael George Was Born. He Was Said To Be “..a difficult child, wild, unpredictable and other-worldly. His parents, former soldier and special constable Paddy – now 71 – and care assistant Margaret, brought him into the world in a last-ditch attempt to save their stormy marriage. The relationship was doomed to fail and George spent his early years hiding from blistering domestic rows in the family’s cramped council flat in a deprived area of Acton” (Source Here)
1967 – “Paddy walked out on Margaret, who was having an affair, to set up home with current wife Babs. Confused and unhappy he fought at school and even turned on his fragile epileptic sister Susan, who he had always guarded” (Source Here)
1970 – Sister Michealina (Michelle Diskin Bates) Moved To Barnes To Live With Their Father Alfred, His New Wife Barbara & Their Chiwawa Dog. “As Her relationship with her mother was not easy and by the age of 15 she was living with her father. ‘My mother was warmer earlier in the marriage,’ she says. ‘And less warm towards the end of it.‘ When Barry asked to move in with his father, he was refused. ‘I’m sure Barry saw it as a rejection. Probably the first of many,’ she says” (Source Here)
1970 – Barry George Was Expelled From Primary School At Aged 10 For Hitting A Teacher
1971 – Barry George Was Sent To Council-Run Heathermount Boarding School In Ascot While His Sister Susan Was Put Into Care
1972 – Heathermount Boarding School Built A Small Bore Rifle Range For Students, Which Barry George Probably Used. It Closed The Following Year (Source Here)
1973 – Michealina George Moved To Ireland. Michealina Is Now Known As Michelle Diskin Bates. According To Statements Made By Her She Saw Her Brother Barry A Total Of 4 Times In 27 Years
A Former Pupil At Heathwrmount School Claimed Barry George Was A Bully & Had Sexually Assaulted Him (Source Here)
1974 – Alfred George Moved To Australia With His Second Wife Barbara
May-September 1976 – Aged 16 Barry George Worked As A Messenger For The BBC At Television House, Wood Lane, London
Barry George Moved Into A High-Rise Tower Block Overlooking Shepherd’s Bush Roundabout, West London. His Step-Sister Maria Went On To State “It stank and you could hardly get in the door for rubbish. But most disturbing of all were the piles of gun magazines that stretched in columns to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds of them“
March 1980 – Using The Name Paul Gadd, Barry George Tried To Con His Way Into A Woman’s Home In Surrey Pretending To Be A Police Officer
A month prior to his 20th birthday Barry George was arrested and charged for impersonating a police officer. He tried to join the Metropolitan police, but was turned down before interview. He used the Met’s headed paper to make a false warrant card.
Excerpts from a media article on this offence read;
It was a crude deception and he was found out when he approached a woman who seemed to be having difficulties with her husband.
He took her address and visited her the next day but her son became suspicious and called the police.
Barry George asked the judge at Kingston court to consider five other similar offences (Source Here)
The West London Observer Exposed Barry George (When He Was Known As Paul Gadd) As A Fraudster When He Stole A Trophy & Then Used It To Pretend He Was A British Karate Champion
Countless Attacks On Women
Below are excerpts from a media article describing some of Barry George’s behaviour on one of his countless victims;
June Elvin
In March 1980 an actress called June Elvin, who had appeared in Ealing films and the police series Z Cars, was confronted by a man as she walked into the entrance hall of her block of flats in Barons Court, west London.
“He pulled open one side of the gates to the lift, I did the other,” she said.
“It was a tiny lift with only room for two. Halfway up he stopped the lift and attacked me. He tried to touch me, to put his hand up my skirt. I screamed and shouted and fought back”
The man fled when a friend of Ms Elvin’s heard the commotion and ran to help.
Though he was acquitted of this offence in June 1981, George was convicted of assaulting another woman.
According to reports of this case, George followed the civil servant and asked her out.
When she rejected him, he grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. He received a three-month suspended prison sentence.
1981 – Aged 21, Barry George’s Application To Join The Regular Army Was Turned Down
11th June 1981 – Stood Trial For Two Separate Indecent Assault Charges
Barry George was found not guilty on the first offence, which was related to his attack on June Elvin, but he was found guilty and convicted for the second indecent assault charge.
Barry George was only sentenced to three months imprisonment, which was suspended for two years – meaning he did not go to prison.
17th September 1981 – Alan Warriner Of Tubitt Scaffolding Sponsored Barry George, Who Had Changed His Name By Deedpoll To Steve Francis Majors, To Jump Over 4 Buses On Rollerskates At Nottingham’s Long Eaton Stadium(Source Here)
On 17th September, 1981 using the alias Steve Majors, Barry George carried out a stunt in Nottingham’s Long Eaton stadium where he jumped over a row of four double decker buses on in-line roller-skates.
Barry George (Aka Steve Majors) aged 20
It Is Not Known If Barry George Was Working For Tubbit Scaffolding For Cash In Hand
5th December 1981 – Joined Territorial Army(Source Here)
In December 1981 Barry George joined the territorial army under his alias Steve Francis Major.
Former Sergeant Major Leslie Lindsay, who gave evidence during Barry George’s 1st trial, said that “Mr George would have been involved in stripping and assembling self-loading rifles and machine guns”.
Uncle Mike Burke (also spelt Bourke) claimed of his nephew;
He was then training with the Territorial Army.
He called to visit me one evening at my place in Shepherds Bush, dressed in army gear and carrying a large kitbag.
He told me that he had to report to barracks due to the war. I walked him to the bus stop which was next to my local pub, the Askew Arms.
He wanted to come in with me but I lied and told him that it was full of mad Irish who would attack him because of his uniform.
I was relieved when the bus came and he was gone.
Excerpts from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published in October 2016
When Alfred George Discovered His Son Barry George Had Access To Guns In The Territorial Army He Asked Him To Quit (Source Here)
7th February 1982 – Barry George Raped A 20 Year-Old Woman, Pretended He Was In The Royal Air Force (RAF) Then Claimed As His Defence He Was Allegedly “Lonely & Rejected”
Barry George remained with the territorial army until November 1982, attending a total of “29 voluntary training days” between the end of 1981 and end of 1982.
In February, 1982, George approached a 20-year-old languages student outside Turnham Green Tube station in west London.
She thought he was a harmless eccentric.
He walked with her and tried to impress her by saying “How are you?” in German.
In a dark stairwell outside her parent’s flat in Acton, George attacked her.
He clamped his hand over her mouth and pushed her arm behind her back.
Terrified she was going to suffocate, she pleaded with him to let her go, but he continued, forcing her to the ground and pulling at her clothing.
The woman, who is now married with two children, claimed she was raped.
August-15th September 1982 – Joined Gun Club (Source Here)
In August 1982, aged 22, Barry George joined the Kensington and Chelsea Pistol Club “as a probationary member but in September his application for full membership was rejected”.
He attended on eight occasions where he was involved in pistol shooting.
17th November 1982 – Left Territorial Army (Source Here) “A senior regimental leader said: “He wasn’t Para material. He was just a wanabee. The system is designed to weed out people like him who think they can get in, look cool in a beret and play with guns” (Source Here)His Records Stated “..it was decided he would not make an effective soldier” (Source Here)
10th January 1983 – Caught In Kensington PalaceGrounds. Barry George Had Been Seen Loitering Near The Princess Of Wales Home A Total Of Four Times In The Same Year (Source Here)
Barry George was found by the royal protection squad hiding in bushes at Kensington palace. He was wearing his territorial army clothing and was found to be in possession of a knife, a length of rope and a open he had written addressed to the princess of wales.
Barry George was not charged with any offence related to this incident, although this incident did see him linked to his 7th of February 1982 rape.
21st January 1983 – Arrested & Charged With Rape
29th March 1983 – Convicted Of Lesser Offence Of Attempted Rape
A media article stated;
He appeared at the Old Bailey in March 1983 under the name Steve Majors (Lee Majors played Steve Austin in the popular series the Six Million Dollar Man).
The judge was told he assaulted her because he felt “lonely and rejected”.
George was convicted of attempted rape and sentenced to 33 months.
1985 – Following His Release From Prison Barry George Began Using The Alias Thomas Palmer, Going On To Meet Janice Dobbins & Her 13 Year Old Son David Dobbins, Along With Susan Coombe
On his release from prison for his February 1982 rape, Barry George ended up living in a bed and breakfast hostel called Stanhope Gardens Hotel, which was located in Kensington, West London. He also lived at the Conrad hotel in Gloucester Road under the alias Thomas Palmer, who was the name of an SAS soldier involved in the rescue of hostages from the Iranian embassy siege of 1980 (Source Here)
A media article stated;
Killer Barry George
Statements from Janice Dobbins, who is now dead but knew George in the Eighties when he lived at the Stanhope Gardens hotel in Kensington, were read to the court today.
At that time George called himself Thomas Palmer, the name of a real-life SAS hero.
Mrs Dobbins told how she was in the hotel TV room with other guests when “all of a sudden from behind the curtain a man jumped out wearing combat gear, a gas mask, a ski mask, a belt with shotgun cartridges and holding a small machine gun about 2ft long in both hands. I screamed and jumped off the sofa. He ran but I recognised it was Thomas. Everyone went mad and started swearing at him. He just laughed.”
She said George would regularly dress in combat gear and carry the gun around the hotel. He claimed he was a member of the SAS and had helped to free the hostages in the Iranian embassy siege of 1980.
George kept in touch with her after she moved to Fulham. “One night about 2am I was having drinks in the flat with friends when the window opened and a gun was pushed through into the living room,” she said.
“I saw a figure holding it and just knew it was Thomas. He was wearing a ski mask … Everybody screamed and panicked and the figure left.”
Mrs Dobbins continued: “I was aware he would go to Kensington Park, Hyde Park and Holland Park where he followed women.
He would be in my company and then just go off and follow women and I would not see him again until he was back at the hotel.
“This did not surprise me because he would often go up to women in the street and start chatting.
“He would hand out business-type cards and at one stage printed leaflets offering his services teaching English to Japanese girls.”
By 1985 he had collected several pieces of military equipment, including an imitation Heckler Koch machine gun, a starting pistol and a gas mask.
A friend he allowed into his room at a bed and breakfast in Kensington saw a third weapon, a polished silver pistol, carefully wrapped in tissue paper and kept in a shoe box.
This gun has never been found.
Barry George’s uncle Mike Burke stated;
Susan Coombe lived at an address which Barry also lived at in 1985.
She described how he had replica guns which he showed to people.
But she also said that there was a silver gun which he kept concealed in a shoebox.
She claimed that he admitted to her that he followed women to see if they were single.
Susan also confirmed that the photo of the man posing with the gun and gasmask was taken inside Barry’s home.
Excerpts from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mikes Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published in October 2016
July 1985 – Sister Susan George Married Edward Derek Towler
1986 – Barry George Crept Up On Janice Dobbins With A Gun In Her Pelham Street, Fulham Home, On Another Occasion He Also Fired A Handgun Into The Dobbins Home
A media article stated;
The police had found advertisements in his flat for deactivated weapons showing where they could be bought
A photograph of him wearing a gasmask and holding a handgun, finger on trigger was found by police.
There was a break in the gun exposing a spring.
That was said to show that he had an interest in altering guns.
Barry denied during police questioning that it was him in the photograph, and claimed the gun; a blank firing replica was stolen by his friend David Dobbins.
In evidence David Dobbins described an incident where Barry discharged a blank firing pistol at David’s mother’s house, frightening him.
Excerpts from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mikes Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published in October 2016
Another article stated;
A witness has told the jury in the Jill Dando murder trial that the alleged killer of the TV presenter once owned two guns.
David Dobbins, who said he was once a friend of the defendant, Barry George, claimed the alleged killer fired a handgun into his hallway while visiting.
“I was at my front door. I opened it. He came in and let it off. It was a surprise for me,” Mr Dobbins told the Old Bailey on Friday.
Mr Dobbins said he had also seen military equipment, including a pistol and imitation sub-machine gun, in Barry George’s room when they shared bed and breakfast accommodation in the 1980s.
Mr Dobbins, who was 13 when they were at the same B&B hotel in 1985, said George had been protective about his room.
He said he had also seen military equipment, combat clothing, webbing, a gas mask and knives in Mr George’s room.
Mr Dobbins said he was living in a basement flat with his family when Mr George, who also goes by the name of Barry Bulsara, fired the gun in the hallway.
He had opened the door and Mr George pushed his way in holding the firearm in his right hand.
He said that Mr George’s gun had blanks in it, but the defendant also showed him a box of live ammunition.
“He was trying to frighten us – playing some sort of prank. It was pretty scary.
“He was very possessive and would not let us touch it,” Mr Dobbins told the court.
Susan Coombe, who was at the same hotel at the time Mr George had stayed, remembered him showing two guns to residents in the lounge.
Ms Coombe said: “He said he was with the SAS. He showed us a card with a picture of him in a beige beret with a handgun and SAS emblem of a dagger and two wings.
“He did not like people in his room. He was very interested in guns. He would talk about guns all the time.”
April 1986 – Susan Towler (Nee George) Died During The Early Stages Of Pregnancy, Following An Epileptic Seizure. Alfred George Returned To England To Attend His Daughters Funeral, Which Barry George Did Not Attend
1987/88 – David Dobbins Alleged He, Eugene Mahoney & Two Of Their Friends Stole Barry George’s Blank Firing Pistol & Imitation Heckler & Koch Machine Pistol. They Did Not Find His Silver Bruning Handgun (Source Here)
Mr Dobbins said he and other friends had gone round to George’s home in Crookham Road, Fulham in the late 1980s. He had taken the respirator and sub-machine gun and a friend the handgun.
The Heckler Koch ended up in the toy box, he said. He sold the respirator after losing interest ‘‘in things like that”
1988 – Barry George Moved Into His Crookham Road Flat In Fulham
1988 – Barry George Was Questioned By Police In Relation To A Series Of Rapes (Source Here)
2nd May 1989 – Married Japanese Student Itsuko Toide & Assaulted Her
Four months after the wedding, Miss Toide went to the police claiming George had assaulted her. He was arrested and charged on October 29 1989, but the case was dropped before it reached court.
29th October 1989 – Arrested & Charged For His Assault Of Itsuko Toide, Who Claimed Barry George Had Tried To Kill Her, But Case Not Pursued To Court (Source Here)
April 1990 – Arrested & Charged For Indecent Assault But Case Not Pursued To Court (Source Here)
1991 – Applied To Become A Member Of The Royal Green Jackets & Field Ambulance Volunteers
January 1992 – Arrested & Charged With Indecent Assault But Case Not Pursued To Court(Source Here)
1992 – Questioned In Relation To Murder Of Rachel Nickell
Barry George’s Abuse Of Women Continued Throughout The 90’s But He Was Not Convicted For Any Of His Offences
1996 – Barry George Visited A Jewellers In Carnaby Street & Claimed To The Assistant He Was Freddie Mercury’s Cousin. The Assistant Had Asked Him If He Had Met Anyone Famous & He Said Diana, Princess Of Wales & The Woman From Crimewatch (Source Here)
28th October 1997 – GP Noted Barry George “Quite Clearly Has A Personality Disorder, Otherwise He Is Of Normal, Average Intelligence”
The doctor recommended George should have a proper psychiatric assessment at the Riverside health authority in west London. An appointment was made, but George didn’t go.
Angela Gordon, told police how George approached her as she opened the door to her flat opposite his home and asked: ‘Do you live here?’ He allegedly told her he was in the SAS and asked to kiss her. Miss Gordon rebuffed his advances and fled into her home. A photograph of her car was later found on undeveloped film at George’s home.
Another woman, Amanda Scriven, claimed that George would follow her on his bike as she walked from Parsons Green tube station. He did it in a manner ‘designed to intimidate’ and refused to stop, even when challenged. Mr Laidlaw said: ‘On one occasion, he held a camera to Miss Scriven’s face and took pictures until she pushed it away.’
Mr Laidlaw said a woman named Claudia Casey was also targeted in the street by George. ‘She tried to get away from him by walking more quickly but he grabbed her arm and said, “But I only want to talk”. She was terrified and jumped into the passenger seat of a passing car and explained to the driver what had gone on.’
Stalking, Intimidation & Harassment Of Margaret Milortholland & Fiona Maffeo
Margaret Milortholland said she was “petrified” when George stared at her on a Tube train. He then allegedly followed her asking her out. Months later he appeared outside Fulham home, saying, “Now I know where you live.”
Make-up artist Fiona Maffeo said she endured seven years of harassment living in George’s street.
He once left a note on her car windscreen saying he had been watching her and she reminded him of a “child in a woman’s body”.
Over 15 Years Barry George Secretly Tracked 419 Women Making Reams Of Notes Of Their Movements (Source Here)
6th & 9th April 1999 – Barry George Purchased A Number Of Items Of Military Equipment (Source Here)
26th April 1999 – Jill Dando Murdered By LoneGunman Barry George
27th April 1999 – Killer Barry George Purchased Some Flowers & Laid Them Near His Crime Scene, With A Card Saying He Felt “Concern & Remorse” (Source Here & Here)
28th April 1999 – Killer Barry “George had told a journalist his name was Barry Bulsara, a persona the jury has been told he used when passing himself off as the cousin of the Queen singer Freddie Mercury. George told the reporter he used to see Dando on Crimewatch and “she seemed a lovely lady” (Source Here)
9th May 1999 – Killer Barry George Told Fellow Bus Passenger Vicky Murphy He Was Going To Jill Dando’s Memorial “Laidlaw said George ‘was fiddling with a piece of paper which he claimed he was going to read from at the service. He said he did not know Miss Dando well, but that she had interviewed his cousin Freddie Mercury’s said the prosecutor” (Source Here)
June 1999 – Barry George Went To Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s Planning Office To Register An Objection With An Officer Regarding A Neighbours Plan To Alter Their Homes (Source Here)
11th January 2000 – Killer Barry George Had Stated In His Police Notice Of Alibi That He Had Left His Crookham Road Home On 26th April 1999 At 10.30-10.45pm (Source Here)
24th February 2000 – Police Action No 1637 – Trace, Interview & Eliminate Barry Bulsara
11th April 2000 – DC Gallagher Visited Barry George & Took A Police Witness Statement
Barry George Stated On The Day Of His Murder He Had Been At Home All Morning Before Going To HAFAD At 12.30pm-12.45pm. He Also Stated “I wore either my dark suit with a white shirt and a red tie and a black overcoat or… jeans”
“Police believe George followed Miss Dando on several occasions before he killed her. Eighteen months before Miss Dando was shot, George told a complete stranger that he had a famous friend, “a very special lady“, and pointed out the road where Miss Dando lived” (Source Here)
25th May 2000 – Arrested For His Murder Of Jill Dando
‘Detective constable John Gallagher said after his arrest(Barry)George had claimed to have seen a Range Rover “acting suspiciously” on the day Miss Dando was killed’ (Source Here)
29th May 2000 – Charged For His Murder Of Jill Dando
NOTE Found In Killer Barry George’s Crookham Road Flat Reading – “I have difficulty handling rejection. I become angry … it starts a chain of events which is beyond my control”
26th February 2001 – Killer Barry George’s Trial For His Murder Of Jill Dando Began
2nd July 2001 – Killer Barry George Found Guilty
August 2001 – Key Prosecution Witness David Dobbins Found Dead
A witness in the Jill Dando trial who gave important evidence against Barry George, the man convicted of the murder of the television presenter, has been found hanged at his home, it emerged yesterday.
David Dobbins, 30, was discovered by a relative on Thursday at his flat in Fulham, south-west London. It is understood he had been suffering from depression.
He told the jury that George owned an imitation Heckler and Koch MP5 machine gun, and a blank-firing handgun, as well as “a few knives”.
Mr Dobbins’s family moved to another address in 1986, but George continued to see them.
INNOCENCE FRAUD WATCH 