Killer Barry George’s uncle Mike Burke stated in his book;
Belmarsh is a holding prison for prisoners awaiting trial so shortly after his conviction Barry was moved to HMP Whitemoor, in Cambridgeshire.
Mike Burke
2002 – HMP Whitemoor
Referring to the 7th April 2002 Mike Burke stated;
Uncle Mike Burke
On Sunday April 7th I heard on BBC Radio 4 news that the News of the World had a cassette tape of Barry apparently confessing to the murder.
I bought the paper and read the story which I found difficult to believe.
It alleged that Barry said to other prisoners ‘…because I was the man who committed the murder’.
I phoned the number given and listened to the tape recording which sounded like Barry though the sound quality was very poor.
I had warned him that something like that could happen.
The source of the tape was a by then deported Polish thief who claimed he used his tape recorder to record fellow prisoner’s music.
Mike Burke from his book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Murder of Jill Dando first published in June 2011
Excerpts from the Irish Examiner read;
Detectives are set to study a tape on which Barry George is claimed to admit murdering Jill Dando.
The News of the World reports George was recorded by a fellow prisoner during a conversation.
George was convicted last year of the BBC presenter’s murder but has always maintained his innocence.
His appeal against the conviction will be heard soon.
On the tape a voice asks:
“Why did the police arrest you in the first place, do you think?”
Another voice, said to be George’s, replies:
“Why? Because I, I was the person who committed the murder.”
There is no confirmation yet that the voice is George’s and the dialogue on the tape is muffled, indistinct and even inaudible in parts.
It is also said to contain an involved discussion about the timing of alibis and the nature of the trial judge’s directions to the jury, reports The News of the World .
The tape is said to have been recorded accidentally by Rafal Gutarewicz while he and George were in Whitemoor Prison.
He was trying to record himself playing a keyboard and accidentally left the tape running.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said:
“We will study any potential new evidence carefully. We are not prepared to discuss the issue further while the case is subject to appeal.”
Innocence Fraud Promoter & Groomer Michael Naughton, Russ Spring & Psychopathic Killer Warren Slaney
Gary Thompson (32) and John Weston (29) were shot and killed on the 10th of October 1990 in the front garden of the house Gary Thompson lived in with his wife and children in Oadby, Leicestershire.
Gary Thompson
John Weston
Gary Thompson ran a successful hot dog and burger van fast food business and his friend John Weston worked alongside him.
Psychopath Warren Slaney and Terence Burke stole up to £60,000 of bank holidays takings from Gary Thompson’s Bentley motor vehicle after shooting dead Gary Thompson and John Weston.
Innocence fraud killer Warren Slaney’s co-defendant Terence Burke attempted to pretend that victim Gary Thompson “was in on the raid” as part of an insurance scam.
However it was established Gary Thompson was uninsured.
In 2000 killer Warren Slaney made allegations here that staff at Woodhill prison had “attacked” him “atleastsixtimes” and in 2011 Private Eye magazine published an article headed The Hot Dog Hitin which it stated;
Slaney’s case has now been taken up by the University of Bristol Innocence Project where law students investigate claims of injustice
Excerpt from a Private Eye magazine article headed The Hot Dog Hit dated 11th September 2011
Another article on psychopathic innocence fraud killer Warren Slaney stated;
The campaign has the support of Dr Michael Naughton of The Innocence Project based at Bristol University who showed that miscarriages of justice were costing the public purse as much as £200m a year in 2002.
Someone called Russ Spring was also involved in the innocence fraud public relations spin campaign and was referred to in 2005 here as a “campaign support worker for the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation”.
Russ Spring from Mojo said: “We feel that the scale of the inquiry that is needed into his conviction really is beyond the scope of the Criminal Case Review Commission and they need to appoint an independent outside investigators.
Referring to just after killer Barry George was released from custody in 2008 following his retrial, his uncle Mike Burke stated;
It was now open season on Barry and the press set about destroying any hope of him settling into any kind of normal life in his home city of London.
I watched dispassionately as his reputation, such as it was, nosedived over the last days of 2008 under a welter of tabloid fantasy.
They ran stories on what he ate, what bookshops he visited, his temporary accommodation.
They claimed incorrectly that he was stalking a nurse, that Sky’s Kay Burley was frightened sick by him, that he was interested in Cheryl Cole of X Factor, that he was involved with the partner of a convicted killer etc.
To make things even better a ‘spokesman’ for him allegedly confirmed some of those manufactured stories.
Pat Reynolds said to me one day: ‘with friends like those who needs enemies?’
Excerpts from Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Murder of Jill Dando first published in June 2011
The “spokesman” Mike Burke referred to was Surjit Singh Clair.
Read more on Surjit Singh Clair here, here and here.
Referring to Surjit Singh Clair and some of the various news stories regarding her psychopathic killer brother, Michelle Diskin Bates stated;
It was arranged that Barry would travel from London to Birmingham, where he would be met by volunteers from MOJO.
They would take him to a secret location and keep him safe.
In two days, he and a volunteer, Russ, would meet me in Leeds.
When Russ returned to his family, Surj would take over, taking Barry along to a meeting he was having at another hotel.
We really hoped that all of these precautions would mean Barry would not appear in any more disgraceful headlines, but no.
They were being followed everywhere, even camping outside of Russ’ home looking for Barry, though they were not there.
Russ’ wife and family felt intimidated by the media’s presence.
The only way they could have known about Russ was if our phones were being monitored.
Of course, this was all before the Leveson Inquiry and the News of the World’s well-earned downfall. Story upon story was published.
There was one story that alleged Barry had terrified a nurse in the hospital carpark, and that he was in an agitated state demanding drugs at the hospital.
The truth was that he was with Russ and they had gone to A&E to replace Barry’s epilepsy meds, as he’d had to abandon his supply at the flat when the police came.
Another story alleged that he was now obsessed with Cheryl Cole as well as Kay Burley, and that he was dating a convict’s wife, the person Surj went to a business meeting with!
Statements by Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018
Surjit Singh Clair accompanied Pam Wight, who had been groomed, conned and exploited by serial killer Steve Wight, during her February 2008 Sky news interview with Kay Burley.
It was during this interview where Kay Burley asked Pam Wright;
Do you think if you’d had a better sex life, he wouldn’t have done this?
Kay Burley – February 2008
A December 2008 media article stated of killer Barry George;
He is also reportedly besotted with Pam Wright, the fiancée of Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright.
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
Niamh Horan, who’s 1st of October 2023 article for the Irish independent was referred to in Part 16here and Part 17here, also made the following statements – in which she quoted Michelle Diskin Bates;
Following his acquittal, the family — including George — visited the Isle of Wight for a holiday.
She says her brother moved to Ireland not to escape media attention, but “to escape the police”.
“A horrible thing happened to a 16-year-old girl in the area where we were staying.
She was attacked,” Diskin Bates recalls.
“Weeks later I had gone back to Ireland and the [British] police wanted to speak with Barry.”
Diskin Bates says after the Isle of Wight attack her brother’s solicitor had asked the police if George was a suspect and they had said no.
But then, “the police went to my mother’s home anyway where they thought Barry was staying.
“She said, ‘If you want to know what happened, speak to my daughter.’
Nobody ever came near me, but I had to almost secrete Barry out of the country of his birth and get him into Ireland where he would be safe.”
Niamh Horgan for the Irish Independent article headed ‘My brother was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’ dated 1st October 2023
As already stated in Part 20 of this blog series here, Barry George spent the night of the 8th August 2008 in a hotel in London.
On the 9th August 2008 he then travelled to Southsea, which is near Portsmouth with his sister Michelle and mother Margaret, where they met up with innocence fraud killer Sion Jenkins and his wife Tina.
Barry George, his sister and mother then travelled across to the Isle of Wight for around thirteen days, where they stayed in the Farringford house hotel.
Michelle Diskin Bates stated that it was Barry Loveday from Portsmouth university who had recommended Farringford house to her. Michelle stated in 2018;
Barry Loveday had suggested a hotel to me on the Isle of Wight. It was on the other side of the island, furthest away from the ferry ports, but that was not the only reason for the recommendation. He had felt that we would benefit from a little luxury, and also the peace and privacy this hotel complex could provide. It would be the perfect retreat for our little family to start getting to know each other again.
Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018
There is no evidence anywhere that Barry George was a suspect in relation to the alleged attack on a 16 year-old girl.
However what there was evidence of – was someone (or more than one person) feeding the media with numerous stories.
Birds Of A Feather
A 30th August 2008 media article stated;
Barry George and Sion Jenkins, both wrongly convicted of two of Britain’s most notorious murders, have struck up an unlikely close friendship.
He had vowed to return to his flat in Fulham, South West London, after wrongly serving seven years in jail.
Mr Jenkins, 50, was sentenced to life in 1998 for the murder of his 13-year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo, who was battered to death with a metal tent spike in the garden of their home in Hastings, East Sussex.
He was released on appeal in 2004. Two retrials failed when neither jury could agree a verdict and Mr Jenkins was formally acquitted of murder in February, 2006.
His first wife Lois divorced him after his conviction and moved to Tasmania with their four daughters. After Mr Jenkins’s release he married Tina, a nurse and mother of one, who wrote to him while he was in prison.
She sold her £1million mews home in Belgravia and the couple moved to Southsea.
A source said that Mr Jenkins first met Ms Diskin at a seminar on miscarriages of justice run by Barry Loveday, a reader in criminal justice administration at the University of Portsmouth.
The source added that Mr Jenkins had told Ms Diskin that her brother could stay with him if he needed a place away from media attention after his release.
A spokesman for Mr George said: ‘I am aware they are good friends and I can confirm they have spent time together since Barry’s release.’
Mr George, who lives in Hackney, East London, is said to have spent a week on holiday with Mr Jenkins on the Isle of Wight last month.
He also stayed at the home Mr Jenkins shares with his second wife Tina in Southsea, Hampshire, for three days.
Last night, the Mail was told it was not a permanent arrangement.
Mr George, who has spent seven years in jail, still plans to move back to Fulham, West London, where Miss Dando was murdered.
Mr George’s spokesman, Surjit Singh Clair, said: ‘The men are friends, I can confirm that. I think the friendship started around six months ago and it was cemented when Barry came out.’
After his release, Mr George admitted he could not have shot dead Miss Dando on the doorstep of her Fulham home, as he was stalking another woman at the time.
Two weeks ago, the convicted sex attacker was stopped and searched by police after making several visits to the BBC Crimewatch presenter’s former home.
How Long Was Surjit Singh Clair Stirring Things Up For?
Surjit Singh Clair’s name came up in further media articles around this time, including one in which it was stated Barry George had visited his “murder scene twice;”
Last night George’s agent confirmed he had visited the murder scene twice since his release.
Surjit Singh Clair said: “Yes, it’s true Barry has been back to Gowan Avenue twice.
“In his mind he wants to clear what he says are the demons from his past.
“His supporters have also urged him to do it, saying it would be a healthy thing to do for him to help him move on with his life.
“Friday was a routine stop and search in Hackney, nothing more.
“Earlier he had been to Fulham to see a friend but wouldn’t tell me any more I’m afraid.”
There was also an article written by David Jones for the DailyMail in which Surjit Singh Clair had again stated Barry George had mentioned visiting his victims “grave a few times”.
David Jones also referred to receiving an “angry email” from Michelle Diskin Bates.
Excerpts from David Jones article read;
During the interview he gave (or rather sold for £80,000) to a down-market tabloid after his release, George insisted he was never fixated with the 37-year-old star, as the prosecution had alleged.
Yet if George wasn’t obsessed with Jill at the time she was murdered, he certainly is now.
He spends hour upon hour poring over books and websites about her – and, now, with a breathtaking lack of insight into the likely furore, he aims to travel 150miles from London to the West Country.
‘Barry has mentioned visiting the grave a few times,’ his spokesman Surjit Singh Clair told me this week.
‘It’s something he definitely wants to do. He just feels there’s a connection between them – they’ve been tragically brought together.’
George has also discussed his plans with his confidante, his sister, Michelle Diskin.
‘Barry spent eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t do,’ Mr Singh Clair said.
‘He’s become entwined with her life and she has played a huge part in his. He wants to exorcise Jill’s ghost, and say: “I don’t want you to think I hold any hard feelings against you.”
Regrettably, it is. George’s spokesman says he might request permission from Jill’s family – and if so, he could receive a surprisingly favourable reaction.
For with remarkable magnanimity, Nigel Dando said that he would not object to the visit. ‘It might give Mr George cause to ponder and reflect,’ he said, when told of George’s plans.
‘If he looks respectable and takes flowers, and perhaps goes with a friend or relative rather than slinking around on his own, then it wouldn’t look too bad. It’s his personal choice.’
Regrettably, it is. George’s spokesman says he might request permission from Jill’s family – and if so, he could receive a surprisingly favourable reaction.
For with remarkable magnanimity, Nigel Dando said that he would not object to the visit. ‘It might give Mr George cause to ponder and reflect,’ he said, when told of George’s plans.
Mr Singh Clair is a Midlands-based freelance journalist who was enlisted by the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO) to promote George’s cause four years ago, when he was battling to overturn his murder conviction.
He brokered the £80,000 interview deal after George’s acquittal, and he is now among the trusted inner circle who proffer assistance to George…
Others in ‘Team Barry’ include his sister, who flits between London and her home in Cork, his careworn 72-year-old mother, Margaret, and an old friend named Robert Charig, who can’t work because he suffers a neurological complaint, and so has time to dispense sympathy and homespun advice.
Fringe members of the coterie include Sion Jenkins, who was cleared of murdering his own 13-year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo in 2006, after serving six years of a life sentence.
This week, Mr Jenkins denied reports that George has stayed at his Hampshire home, but admitted having met him and lent his support.
Meanwhile, a few weeks later, a 26-year-old woman complained to the police that a man fitting George’s description had pestered her as she served in an upmarket speciality tea and coffee shop in West London.
The most recent story surfaced only last weekend.
George was reported to have cycled seven miles across London in the rain to the HQ of Sky News, marched in unannounced and insisted on meeting the woman who interviewed him after his release – glamorous news anchor Kay Burley.
George’s people dismiss all these damaging claims as a concoction of lies and half-truths.
Their man was on a pelican crossing when he was stopped on suspicion of ‘casing’ cars in Hackney, they say. He has complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and two of his support workers, who just happened to be watching, will be his witnesses.
In an angry email to me this week, Michelle Diskin claimed her brother was the victim of a media-driven plot designed to smear and intimidate him.
Uncle Mike Burke, killer Barry George & Susan Young in the back of a London black cab, leaving the Old Bailey on the 1st August 2008 – courtesy of the DailyMail
Up To His Old Tricks
Surjit Singh Clair who was referred to in Part 16here was said to be the worse offender of the three men who faked a racial attack back in 2000.
Excerpts from a media article read;
The judge said Clair’s behaviour was worse because he tried to make a “significant personal profit” by selling the story.
The Express newspaper agreed to pay £6,000 to Clair for the tale of the attack, but the money was never handed over after police became suspicious of Cotter’s claims.
The story of extreme racial prejudice appalled the country.
But it was not true.
Cotter had set up the assault himself in a bizarre plan to revive the couple’s relationship.
The plot backfired when a jury at Birmingham crown court found him and his co-defendants, Craig Wynn and Surjit Singh Clair, guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Not only did he waste weeks of police time, but he made the woman he hoped to marry fear for her life.
Surjit Singh Clair was involved with killer Barry George’s innocence fraud spin campaign for over 4 years. He was described as a “freelance journalist who was enlisted by MOJO to promote George’s cause”.
Surjit Singh Clair was sat next to uncle Mike Burke inside the Old Bailey on the 1st August 2008, which was the day the jury delivered their not guilty verdict following Barry George’s retrial.
Mike Burke, Barry George, Susan Young and David Wacks, who was Barry George’s new solicitor (and a colleague of solicitor Jeremy Moore’s), got a black cab from the Old Bailey to a nearby hotel.
Excerpts from Mike Burke’s book read;
Uncle Mike Burke, killer Barry George & Susan Young leaving the Old Bailey on 1st August 2008 – courtesy of the DailyMail
A photograph later published by the Daily Mail shows the tension etched on all our faces, we looked bloody awful.
The unknown taxi driver did a brilliant job and asked no questions.
Many months later when I viewed Sky News footage I was amused that at the very moment when Michelle was expressing her heartfelt thanks to MOJO whose members were there with her on camera Susan Young, Mr Wacks and I were whisking Barry away in the dramatic dash to freedom, and no MOJO.
…………………………………………………….. The relaxed happy mood soon changed as Serj began engaging intensely with Mr Wacks.
Mr Wacks had understood that he would be discussing media plans with Barry only in an unhurried relaxed manner over a few days but now Serj was saying that as it was Friday there was pressure to get something out for the Sunday papers.
Mr Wacks was very annoyed at Serj’s unexpected intrusion and expressed his unhappiness to me.
Eventually a frustrated looking Serj said that all contracts were lost apart from one with the News of the World.
That did not come as any surprise to me as I had been told by a contact some time earlier that just such a contract had been lined up and so I felt that these negotiations were just a smokescreen.
The deal was done and it was just a matter of getting Barry to sign.
I was dismayed to watch as his happy mood was replaced by a confused puzzled demeanour as he tried to make sense of the intense change which had come over all of us.
I knew that things were now falling apart.
I found it hard to believe that they were again involving the News of the World after what had happened in 2001, like did they not learn anything from that?
I protested to Serj that we did not want that paper and told him about their 2001 headline ‘The Imp Who Grew into a Devil’, but he said that it was all that was left.
I then took Barry to one side and said that I didn’t mind what he did as long as it was his free choice.
Susan Young then intervened and tried to reassure me that everything would be OK but I was not at all convinced, feeling that history was repeating itself.
I was beat and could only hope that Mr Wacks would ensure that Barry’s interests were looked after.
Michelle, Serj and Mr Wacks then went to another part of the hotel where further negotiations took place; while I remained for a short time with Barry.
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The headlines hit me like a slap in the face.
The News of the World article was prefaced with the warnings, OUR LAWYERS ARE WATCHING’.
They described Barry as a ‘BUG-EYED ODD-BALL.’
They claimed he confessed: ‘’I didn’t kill Jill Dando-because I was stalking ANOTHER woman.’’
He was shown posing with the horrible prison issue plastic bag which I had concealed when entering the hotel.
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 from uncle Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Murder of Jill Dando first published in June 2011
Barry George’s Admissions, Lies, Gaslighting & Lack Of Remorse
Not only did killer Barry George admit to seeing Julia Moorhouse on the day of his murder, he also lied to the Sunday Mirror about the “gunpowder” found in his coat pocket.
Excerpts from a BBC article read;
Mr George told the Sunday Mirror he believed the residue came from armed police entering his flat – but in response, Scotland Yard said no such officers were involved in searches at the address.
“They’re responsible for the gunpowder,” Mr George told the Sunday Mirror.
“I’ve got pictures of police going in my flat with guns – that’s how it got there.”
Scotland Yard said it was not aware of any complaint about officers’ conduct but would investigate should one be made.
A spokesman said: “At the first trial it was suggested that armed officers were at the address, [but] there was no authorisation for armed officers, there was no record of armed officers attending and we strongly refute the suggestion that armed officers were present.”
Surjit Singh Clair put out statements via the Express, the same newspaper he had previously attempted to sell his fake story to, claiming psychopath Barry George was “reformed;”
Barry George is a reformed character who poses no danger to some, it was claimed
Police moves to monitor his behaviour and protect the public will not be necessary, his spokesman said.
Surjit Singh Clair said Mr George, 48, acquitted last week of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando, now realised his past stalking and pestering of women was wrong.
He said: “It was inappropriate. He was lonely at the time and that was the only way he knew to communicate. But he said he has learnt from that and he won’t be doing that kind of thing again. It’s a case of self-policing for Barry. He now realises it is wrong.”
Mr Clair was speaking after it emerged officials want to keep a close eye on Mr George amid fears over his former lifestyle. Police, prison and probation staff are discussing whether they can put in place special supervision arrangements.
The set of arrangements, known as Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, involves agencies sharing information on how they can best manage violent and sexual offenders.
But sources said several legal hurdles remain as Mr George has not been convicted of an offence for more than 20 years. Officials believe Mr George could be made subject to the same terms because of his admissions and police evidence of his disturbing past behaviour.
Referring to the first few days after Barry George’s August 2008 retrial, Michelle Diskin Bates stated in 2018;
Back on the Isle of Wight, we were still battling to get the newspaper to pay Barry for his exclusive interview.
Barry’s new solicitor, Mr Wacks, wanted him to take a lesser amount.
He had spoken with the paper’s representatives and they said they would pay a sixth of the fee, or a bit more if Barry would submit to a lie detector test.
I was utterly outraged that his solicitor would even think this was acceptable!
I turned it down flat, but later ran the idea by Dr Young, who emphatically agreed with me.
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The News of the World had relented and decided they would pay Barry his full fee, thanks to the Trojan efforts of Surj Singh Clair.
Barry’s own solicitor had been unable to do anything to help Barry, though he still received his fifteen percent.
Surj, of course, did not earn a penny from Barry for his efforts, because he was representing MOJO and not himself.
By October 2008 Surjit Singh Claire was telling the media that Barry George was apparently meeting up with a woman, stating;
I can tell you there is somebody new, though.
I think there have been three or four meetings.
She’s about the same age as Barry – and he’s very excited about it.
But I’m always cautious of these people because she obviously knows who Barry is and that he’s going to get a lot of money.
He’s been advised to be careful and keep himself in check.
We don’t want him in some kind of trap.
Surjit Singh Clair via David Jones for the Daily Mail article headed Obsessed with visiting Jill Dando’s grave and acting more erratically than ever, Barry George is a man on the edge dated 10th October 2008
Mr Singh Clair also revealed producers are in talks with misfit Barry George, who was cleared of the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, over a possible role in the movie.
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
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.
During Part 3 of Who Killed Jill Dando? (at around 18:47) Michael Mansfield stated;
It cannot have been a lone gunman
Michael Mansfield
That’s exactly what and who it was!
The ill man, the loner
The infatuated
The psychopath
The disturbed
The obsessed
Barry George fit that category
Hamish Campbell
Michael Mansfield then went on to state;
He’d have to have had the loaded gun on him ready to fire
And be crouched in the front garden
So that she didn’t see that he was there
Well he’d have to be there for hours
Doesn’t add up
Michael Mansfield
Evidence demonstrated that it did add up;
Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said Dando’s death had been the result of the actions of “a loner, a man acting alone with no rational motive to kill”.
He said George, 48, had a history of complex medical problems and had told police he had a “personality disorder”.
Laidlaw told the jury the defendant would approach women and try to find out where they lived and what type of car they drove.
“Some of the witnesses provide evidence that Barry George, having discovered where they lived, also spent time waiting in the area and observing their addresses; on occasions, that he was present outside watching when they arrived back at their homes.”
Susan Mayes picked killer Barry George out during a video identity parade.
A media article from June 2008 read;
Susan Mayes
The man accused of Jill Dando’s murder was seen ‘staring’ at her home just hours before she was shot dead on her doorstep, a court heard yesterday.
A neighbour of the BBC presenter told the Old Bailey she saw Barry George looking at the house that morning.
City trader Susan Mayes picked out George, 48, in a video ID parade 18 months later. ‘I saw the defendant,’ she told jurors yesterday. ‘I was certain that was the person I had seen.’
She said that when George realised she was watching him, he looked at the ground and tried to hide his face.
Miss Mayes was going to work around 7am on April 26 1999 when she spotted a ‘scruffy’ man on the opposite side of Gowan Avenue.
‘I saw the defendant,’ she told the court. ‘He was standing on the north side of the road next to a car that was double parked.’
She went on: ‘When I first noticed him he was staring at the houses on the left hand side of the road. I recall he was looking at the houses either side of him.
‘I remember him turning round to look at the houses on my side of the road.
‘As I got nearer to him he started cleaning his windscreen in a strange way. He was looking at the ground.’
She showed how he covered his face with his arm, and was not looking at what he was cleaning, nor using a cloth.
‘I thought this man doesn’t want to be seen. I thought it was odd.
‘As I drew up alongside him I was looking at him and carried on looking at him for a few seconds afterwards.’
Miss Mayes said the man was around 5ft 10in tall, stocky, of ‘Mediterranean’ appearance, with shoulder length black or dark brown hair.
She said he wore a dark suit, white shirt with an open neck and no tie. ‘I got the impression he was quite scruffy.’
Miss Mayes picked George out of an identity parade in October 2000.
This is George’s second trial for the murder. The prosecution alleges George was a loner who had obsessions with celebrities and guns, and a grudge against the BBC.
INNOCENCE FRAUD WATCH 