Tag: Jill Dando

Killer Barry George Suffered With Intense Anger, Had A Grudge Against Women, Feigned Illness & Was Far More Competent Than Tests Suggested #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 25)

Brother-in-law Derek Edward Towler
Killer Barry George & his sister Michelle Diskin Bates

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

The following statements were made by killer Barry George’s sister Michelle Diskin Bates on Facebook on the 2nd October 2023;

Sister Susan Towler (nee George)

The police knew Barry George was a danger to women and that he was a prolific sexual predator and rapist.

As already stated in Part 3 of this blog series The Ghosting Of Sister Susan & Brother-In-Law Edward Derek Towler, Barry and Michelle’s sister Susan Towler passed away in April 1986 during the early stages of pregnancy.

Caroline Logan

Caroline Logan said Barry George feigned illness in a bid to influence the case and stated;

He may have a degree of control when he feels threatened by a process like a court case.

He may exaggerate to protect himself from a situation in which he feels threatened.

Excerpts by Stephen Wright for the Daily Mail article headed Blonde doctor’s £25,000 to comfort Dando killer dated 29th June 2002

Philip Joseph

Philip Joseph found Barry George far more competent than he made himself out to be to.

A media article stated;

Dr Philip Joseph, another leading psychiatrist who was called by the prosecution, said George was “far more competent” than tests would suggest and capable of lying in police interviews.

While some of his behaviour could be attributed to his epilepsy and cognitive impairment, his stalking of women appeared to stem from an “intense anger” caused by rejection, Dr Joseph said.

Source here

Killer Barry George Admitted His Guilt To His Murder In 2002 #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 24)

HMP Belmarsh

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.”

Excerpts from an Irish Examiner article headed Police to study Dando killer’s ‘confession tape’ dated 7th April 2002

Link to Part 25 HERE

Killer Barry George Was Said To Have Fled To Ireland In 2009 After Someone Allegedly Held A Gun To His Head & Told Him To “Watch Your Back” – Why Has His Sister Michelle Diskin Bates Recently Claimed Otherwise? #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 23)

David Wells & The Allegation Made To The Police About A Gun Threat Whilst Staying In Emergency Accommodation In Hackney

In late August 2008 the Evening Standard reported that killer Barry George had been stopped and searched after apparently being seen acting suspiciously and “hanging around parked cars carrying a holdall”.

Excerpts from the article read;

Barry George, 48 – who was acquitted just three weeks ago of killing the BBC Crimewatch presenter – was approached by two officers in a patrol car near his home in North London.

The male and female officers used stop-and-search powers after Mr George was seen ‘hanging around’ parked cars carrying a holdall. 

He was searched by the male PC, who found nothing suspicious, and was allowed to leave when the officers were called away to a traffic accident.

Solicitor David Wells

Last night Mr George’s solicitor David Wells said:

‘Nobody has said to me that he was doing anything wrong, and there doesn’t seem to be anything that singled him out from anybody else.

‘Today is the first example I have of how the police are treating him as an innocent man. Some form of complaint will be made.’

Scotland Yard last night refused to comment, but a senior police source defended the officers’ actions. 

‘They believed he was acting suspiciously and that is why they stopped him,’ the source said.

Excerpts from an Evening Standard article headed Police stop ‘suspicious’ Barry George – just three weeks after he was acquitted of killing Jill Dando dated 24th August 2008

Barry George made the allegation that someone had put a gun to his head and told him to ‘watch your back’.

Solicitor David Wells was apparently with Barry George when he reported his allegation to the police;

He had moved to Hackney, east London, and it was there that the threat was made a year after he was freEd

Barry says:

‘When I was in emergency accommodation in Hackney, I was stood in a long hallway and I had a gun put to my head and was told ‘Watch your back’.

‘I went to the police station and told them and they gave me lip service. I was living in fear.

‘There were two things in my mind: I’ve been acquitted of this crime and then I get a gun to my head.’

The Met police confirmed that a man in his 40s had reported such an incident in Hackney during 2009.

However, they were unable to give full details of the probe.

David Wells, a criminal defence specialist from Wells Burcombe Solicitors, was at the police station when Barry reported the sinister threat.

David said:

‘He was incredibly distressed… sweating, out of breath and in quite a state.

I’d seen Barry on many occasions and I had never seen him this distressed.

Later that year Barry fled to Ireland where he hoped the harassment would end.

Excerpts by Alex Green for the Daily Mail article headed Barry George – the loner acquitted of killing Jill Dando – reveals he is still looking over his shoulder, almost 20 years after he walked free before being told at gunpoint: ‘Watch your back’ dated 17th July 2018

Stories Not Adding Up

Recently Michelle Diskin Bates contradicted the above story and made the claim her brother had moved to Ireland “to escape the police”.

Excerpts from Niamh Horan’s article for the Irish Independent read;

She says her brother moved to Ireland not to escape media attention, but “to escape the police”..

“… I had to almost secrete Barry out of the country of his birth and get him into Ireland where he would be safe.”

Niamh Horan 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

Mark Hughes for the Independent previously stated;

Upon his release he lived in a flat in Hackney which cost him £310 a week in rent.

He paid for it not, as was suggested, by claiming benefits, but by using the proceeds he was paid to do a tabloid interview on the day of his release..

Excerpts from an article by Mark Hughes for the Independent article headed Barry George: ‘I am not angry, certainly not at society. But I would use the word disgusted‘ dated 31st May 2010

Barry George was apparently paid £80,000 for his story following his release from custody.

He would therefore not have been eligible for help towards his rent due to the fact his savings were over £16,000. Read more here

Link to Part 24 HERE

The Surjit Singh Clair Effect, Fantasist Michelle Diskin Bates, Sister of Killer Barry George, Innocence Fraud Killer Warren Slaney, Serial Killer Steve Wright & Kay Burley #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 22)

Michelle Diskin Bates & killer Barry George
Surjit Singh Clair

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 “at least six times” and in 2011 Private Eye magazine published an article headed The Hot Dog Hit in 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.

Source here

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.

BBC news article headed Balloons lift murder appeal bid dated 27th September 2005

Michael Naughton, who was involved in the innocence fraud of killer Simon Hall, founded Bristol university’s innocence project.

Read more on innocence fraud groomer and promoter Michael Naughton by tapping on the button below;

Killer Simon Hall: The Illusory Truth Effect & The Enabling & Empowering Of Highly Manipulative Innocence Fraud Murderers, Psychopathy, Menticide & HMPPS & Monitoring – PART 17

The Surjit Singh Clair Effect

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.

Michelle Diskin Bates chose to omit to tell the readers of her book the fact that Surjit Singh Clair was a convicted fraudster who attempted “to obtain property by deception by selling the story of the bogus attack to a national newspaper”.

False Phone Monitoring Allegations & Pam Wright

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.

Excerpt from a Birmingham Sunday Mercury article headed My relationship with Barry George dated 6th December 2008

As referred to in Part 18 of this blog series here, Surjit Singh Clair had stated to David Jones of the DailyMail;

I can tell you there is somebody new, though.

I think there have been three or four meetings

Surjit Singh Clair – Source here

Was the woman Surjit Singh Clair referred to Pam Wright?

During a 2021 channel 5 TV show Pam Wright stated, after realising Steve Wright was a psychopathic serial killer;

He was just a nice, quiet, kind guy

I just, no, no way, I couldn’t believe it.

He wasn’t a violent person

This is my life sentence, I’ll never know the truth… I do honestly think there’s a lot more to the story.

I just didn’t want to wake up, I drank ridiculously and I was on anti-depressants.

Anything just to go to sleep and not think about it

Pam Wright via Entertainment Daily article headed The Suffolk Strangler: Why did Steve Wright kill his victims and where is he now? dated 21st August 2021

Surjit Singh Clair can be seen walking behind Pam Wright in the opening of the February 2008 video with Kay Burley below;

Link to Part 23 HERE

Innocence Fraud Killers Barry George & Sion Jenkins, Portsmouth & The Isle Of Wight Holiday & More On Niamh Horan’s Article For Irish Independent & Fantasist Michelle Diskin Bates #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 21)

Killer Barry George & his mother Margaret Bourke
Innocence fraud killer Sion Jenkins

Michelle Diskin Bates Fantastical Storytelling

Niamh Horan, who’s 1st of October 2023 article for the Irish independent was referred to in Part 16 here and Part 17 here, 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.’

Excerpts from a DailyMail article by Daniel Cochlin article headed The Odd Couple: Freed Barry George finds a place to stay… with his friend Sion Jenkins dated 30th August 2008

Another media article stated;

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. 

Excerpts from a DailyMail article headed Barry George find himself a friend in Sion Jenkins dated 1st September 2008

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.”

Barry George: I’ve been back there twice dated 24th August 2008

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.

Excerpts from a DailyMail article by David Jones 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

Link to Part 22 HERE

Scammer Michelle Diskin Bates Claimed Her Killer Brother Barry George, A Prolific Sexual Predator, Was Like A “9 Year Old Boy” Living In A Mans Body & Psychopathic Serial Killer Michael Stone #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 20)

killer Barry George in 2000
Michelle Diskin Bates & brother Barry George

Lost Touch In 1988

As already highlighted in Part 1 of this blog series here, morally duplicitous Michelle Diskin Bates has told numerous differing stories over the years.

In 2018 she stated that her and her brother Barry George had “lost touch” by 1988, as is evidenced by her following statements;

Having moved to Ireland, it was rare for me to travel back to London.

Fares were prohibitive, especially if you were travelling with children, so the next time I recall meeting up with Barry was in 1988 when I brought my two children to stay with Mum in London.

Sadly, Barry and I lost touch after this

Excerpts by Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

However by the following year, a 2019 premier christianity magazine article written by Megan Cornell here, had reduced these twelve years down to “almost ten years”.

Excerpts read;

“I heard the name Barry Bulsara and I knew that Barry used that as an email address…I thought: how many of them can there be?”

She called her mum, who was in England, and her worst fears were confirmed: her brother, whom she hadn’t seen for almost ten years, was the main suspect in Britain’s most high-profile murder case.

Excerpts by Megan Cornell for premier christianity magazine article headed ‘My brother was wrongly convicted of murdering Jill Dando’ dated 19th March 2019

Referring to when she allegedly visited her brother in prison in 1983, following his rape of a 20 year-old student (Read more here) Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

 I’m afraid he was given quite a tough time from me; he didn’t enjoy that visit one bit

But I think it needs to be understood that Barry is like a nine-year-old boy living in an adult’s body.

These things should not happen, and he knows right from wrong, but at the same time, he has a whole host of disabilities

Michelle Diskin Bates via a 2019 premier christianity magazine article

£80,000 Newspaper Deal Brokered By Surjit Singh Clair

Referring to when Barry George left custody on the 1st August 2008, following his retrial, Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

He left prison with absolutely nothing as a result: no compensation, no home to return to…. and with no belongings.

The entire contents of his flat had been disposed of without consultation with Barry or his family

Michelle Diskin Bates

In reality Surjit Singh Clair, who was referred to in Part 16 here and Part 18 here had brokered an apparent £80,000 newspaper deal for Barry George.

This money was paid to Barry George fairly quickly by all accounts.

Megan Cornell also stated;

The Miscarriage of Justice support services (part of Citizens Advice) helped Barry to find emergency accommodation and purchase the essentials, but as media scrutiny and intrusion continued, in the end, Michelle supported a move to Ireland.

Excerpts by Megan Cornell

Barry George stayed in a hotel on the night of 8th August 2008 – which was the day he was released from custody.

He then travelled with his sister Michelle and mother Margaret Bourke to Southsea in Portsmouth, where they met up for a meal with innocence fraud killer Sion Jenkins and his wife Tina.

Farringford house, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

From Portsmouth they headed over to the Isle of Wight, where they stayed in the Farringford house hotel.

After “thirteen days” on the Isle of Wight, Michelle and Barry dropped their mother Margaret off in London then the pair of them travelled to Ireland.

Ireland, Irish Passport & The £310 A Week Flat In Hackney

Referring to when they arrived in Ireland after their trip to the Isle of Wight, Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

Barry was entitled to an Irish passport because Mum was Irish by birth, so we applied, receiving it quickly, much to Barry’s dismay.

He was certain that his name alone would ensure he was turned down.

Then he was worried the media would highlight that he had an Irish passport and the police would take it away.

Barry so wanted to start his free life, but he felt he’d never be allowed to.

He was afraid that if he returned to Britain, the police would pick him up on trumped-up charges and he would disappear without a trace.

On one such trip back to London, he was meeting up with his friend and QC Ian Glen at a central London coffee shop, when he was stopped and searched for no reason.

Ian witnessed the officers stopping Barry, although he wasn’t doing anything, and wasn’t behaving in a worrying or threatening way.

They left when Barry pointed Ian out to them.

Why, then, was he being harassed in the street?

We believe it was the conviction for the murder of Jill Dando.

Barry had been put under a Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement order, or a MAPPA order, whilst still in prison.

Barry took a case against this decision but lost, having to pay the costs himself.

Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

What Exactly Did The MOJ Support Services Do?

An 18th August 2008 article for the Irish Times by Olivier Kelleher here stated “Michelle Diskin (51) flew into Cork Airport at lunchtime yesterday..”.

However Barry George didn’t have a passport so he and his sister travelled to Ireland by bus.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

Our journey to Cork took twenty-four hours from Leeds through to Ballincollig.

It was a nerve-wracking marathon expedition.

It’s just an hour’s plane trip away, but I couldn’t take Barry by plane because he had no passport.

Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

A 2010 article by Mark Hughes stated that Barry George lived in a £310 a week flat in Hackney but his article is not clear when exactly this was or for how long.

Excerpts read;

Upon his release he lived in a flat in Hackney which cost him £310 a week in rent.

He paid for it not, as was suggested, by claiming benefits, but by using the proceeds he was paid to do a tabloid interview on the day of his release (the one which described him as “bug-eyed” and an “oddball”).

Excerpts from an article by Mark Hughes for the Independent article headed Barry George: ‘I am not angry, certainly not at society. But I would use the word disgusted‘ dated 31st May 2010

If Barry George stayed in a hotel on the night he was released from custody in August 2008 and then travelled to Portsmouth and onto the Isle of Wight for thirteen days, then travelled to Ireland to obtain an Irish passport.

What exactly did the miscarriage of justice support services help Barry George with?

What “emergency accommodation” was required if Barry George had rented a flat?

Mass Murderers & Child Killers Michael Stone & Jeremy Bamber

Megan Cornell’s 2019 premier christianity article went on to state;

As for Michelle, she now attends All Party Parliamentary Groups in parliament to advise on miscarriages of justice and share her story, but she’s humble about her role:

“I have never felt that I have enough knowledge to look at somebody’s case and say: ‘Oh, clear miscarriage of justice’

Excerpts by Megan Cornell for premier christianity magazine article dated 19th March 2019

As already stated in Part 2 of this blog series here, Michelle Diskin Bates is a ‘patron’ to mass murderer, child killer and rapist Jeremy Bamber’s spin campaign.

On the 6th of February 2022, using one of her numerous social media accounts, “humble” Michelle Diskin Bates made the following statement in support of psychopathic killer Michael Stone;

Serial killer Levi Bellfield has recently admitted he apparently received a £5,000 payment for admitting to Michael Stone’s murders. Read more here

Read more on psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone and his and his enablers innocence fraud by tapping on the button below;

PART 17d The Innocence Fraud Of Serial Murderer Michael Stone Aka Michael John Goodban, His Deluded Sister Barbara Stone, William Clegg, The Zito Trust & The Murder Of Francis Caesar Jegou

Link to Part 21 HERE

Jill Dando’s Killer Barry George & The Ghosting Of Eyewitness Julia Moorhouse #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 19)

Julia Roberts

Witness Julia Moorhouse

On the day he murdered Jill Dando, killer Barry George was seen by Julia Moorhouse at around 12.33pm.

Julia Moorhouse said that Barry George had crossed the road to talk to her around an hour after he had committed his murder.

Excerpts from a Guardian article read;

Mrs Moorhouse said she had been standing on the corner of a street close to the murder scene at 12.30pm on April 26 when a man approached and started talking to her about the helicopters hovering overhead.

“He said they were police helicopters. He gave details of what kind they were. He appeared to have technical knowledge… I turned to go. He came with me. I did not expect that.

“The whole situation struck me as slightly odd. He mentioned the Territorial Army. I think he may have said he had done training or was associated with it… either as an instructor or something”

Excerpts by Nick Hopkins for the Guardian article headed Dando accused ‘set up alibi’ at health centre dated 15th May 2001

Excerpts from another Guardian article stated;

Ms Moorehouse described the man as being in his 30s, nearly 6ft tall, relatively heavy in build, paunchy and with very dark hair.

He was also wearing a bright yellow jacket.

The prosecution alleged that he had changed his clothes.

She said: “I was left with the impression that he might have had at some point a hare-lip or cleft palate at some time which had been mended.”

She added that she rang the police when she heard Dando had been attacked.

Excerpts from a Guardian article headed Witness ‘spoke to suspect after Dando shooting’ dated 14th May 2001

Uncle Mike Burke referred to a conversation he had with his nephew Barry George’s barristers William Clegg and Jeffrey Samuels and stated;

Uncle Mike Burke

Outside the courtroom I spoke with Mr Clegg and Samuels.

We discussed Julia Moorhouse, the women who described being spoken to by a man who could have been Barry approx an hour after Jill Dando’s murder.

I felt her description of the man was too like Barry to be coincidence, and as she reported the meeting to the police straight away on that day it sounded genuine.

We agreed the man she met probably was Barry but disagreed as to whether they met before of after he had visited HAFAD.

The Crown claimed before, which would support their case

Excerpts from Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder first published in June 2011 – Source here

Barry George admitted he had spoken to Julia Moorhouse when he spoke to the media following his retrial.

As previously referred to in Part 18 of this blog series here, Mike Burke also highlighted this fact stating;

In their ‘World Exclusive’ he was quoted as saying ‘After leaving HAFAD I bumped into a woman who was later a prosecution witness and said I was stalking her…That was at 12.33pm…’

That was obviously a reference to Julia Moorhouse who he had always denied meeting.

Excerpts by uncle Mike Burke

One Of Umpteen Innocence Fraud Red Flags

Michelle Diskin Bates chose to ghost Julia Moorhouse and her evidence from a book she had published in 2018, preferring instead to refer to the actress Julia Roberts.

Yet she repeatedly claims;

When he was released from custody in August 2008, Barry George publicly stated he had met with Julia Moorhouse. He stated;

I walked with her for a bit and, from her perspective, maybe it was unwanted attention. But she didn’t make that clear.

It didn’t seem like she was telling me to go away.

If she’d told me to leave I’d have done so straight away. 

That was at 12.33pm.

I know because just a minute before I’d made a call from my mobile to check how much credit I had left.

Statements by Barry George on 1st August 2008 – Source here

Michael Naughton, who was involved in the innocence fraud of killer Simon Hall, wrote the foreword for Michelle Diskin Bates.

Read more by tapping on the button below;

PART 19 Killer Simon Hall: Bristol University’s “Post Conviction Activist” Michael Naughton Aka Empowering The Innocent, Educating Rita, Facilitating & Empowering Actual, Factual Guilty Psychopathic Murderers, Exploitation & A Lack Of Accountability

Link to Part 20 HERE

Michelle Diskin Bates, Sister Of Barry George, Attempts To Rebrand Her Brothers Sexual Predatory & Serial Stalking Behaviour & Claims His Victims Were “Posing” #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 17)

Michelle Diskin Bates
Killer, rapist, serial stalker & con artist Barry George
Niamh Horan

In Niamh Horan’s 1st October 2023 article for the Irish Independent headed ‘My brother Barry George was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’ she stated;

When police searched his flat they found rolls of camera film which contained 2,248 photographs of 419 young women

Niamh Horan

Niamh Horan does not provide any sources for the numbers she has quoted in her article, however other media outlets have stated that the rolls of film contained 2,597 photographs.

Michelle Diskin Bates is even quoted, on the 27th August 2002, by Rebecca Hardy here as stating it was 2,597 photographs.

The ages of each of the 419 victims has never been made known.

Pornography

Referring to Michelle Diskin Bates, Niamh Horan stated;

Although people may see the hordes of photographs as suspicious, she stresses they were undeveloped.

“He was not poring over them night after night.

They were not pornographic,” she says.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated to Niamh Horan that she was “dismayed at what the film-makers left out”.

David Dobbins, who met Barry George after he came out of prison in 1985 for his rape of a woman, said that;

George showed the youngsters porn pictures and took them to venues frequented by Japanese tourists, like Hammersmith’s Cunard Hotel.

Here, he would make clumsy attempts to chat up women.

Most asked him to leave, or called police.

Excerpts by Justine Smith for the Mirror article headed Killer Chameleon; Barry George; Paul Gadd; Steve Majors; Thomas Palmer; Barry Bulsara dated 3rd July 2001

What volume of pornographic material was seized from Barry George’s Crookham Road flat?

Sister Attempts To Rebrand Her Brothers Predatory Behaviour

Referring to the thousands of photographs taken by her sex offender brother Barry George, Michelle Diskin Bates attempted to suggest her brothers prolific stalking, sexual harassment and intimidation of women was his way “to make conversation;”

Rather than stalking the women, the photographs were “a way to make conversations with people, for a man with communication difficulties”

Niamh Horan for the Irish Independent article headed ‘My brother was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder’ dated 1st October 2023

Michelle Diskin Bates even suggested that Barry George’s unsuspecting victims had been “posing;”

Seeing the photographs, Diskin Bates says she thought:

“Oh, Barry, that woman didn’t want her photograph taken. I could tell. But the others were posing”

Excerpts from Niamh Horan’s 1st October 2023 article for the Irish Independent

Again – as already highlighted in Part 8 of this ongoing blog series (Read more here), Michelle Diskin Bates allegedly saw her brother 3 times in 27 years;

On one occasion when he attended her first wedding in Ireland, on another occasion when she allegedly visited him in prison in the early eighties and on a final occasion when she made a “rare” visit to see her mother Margaret in London.

The following TIMELINE details some of Barry George’s crimes;

Countdown To Murder TIMELINE

Link to Part 18 HERE

Questions For Innocence Fraud “M25 Three” Killer Raphael Rowe About Michelle Diskin Bates Following The Netflix Docu Series Who Killed Jill Dando? (Part 14)

Raphael Rowe

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

Link to Part 15 HERE

Murderer, Prolific Sexual Predator & Fraudster Barry George Seemingly Duped Tubitt Scaffolding Into Sponsoring Him #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 13)

Killer Barry George as Steve Francis Majors on 17th September 1981 at Nottingham’s Long Eaton stadium

Did Barry George Work For Tubitt Scaffolding For Cash In Hand

In 1981 killer Barry George duped Alan Warrener, who owned Tubitt Scaffolding, into sponsoring him.

Barry George had changed his name by deed poll to Steve Francis Majors and had allegedly posed as a stuntman.

It is not known how Barry George met Alan Warriner or if he worked for Tubitt Scaffolding around the time.

However in September 1981 Alan’s business Tubitt Scaffolding built the platform which was used by sexual predator and fraudster Barry George to roller state over four double decker buses.

Barry George had also concocted a convincing fake CV (curriculum vitae) in which he had pretended to have starred in the films Rollerball and Who Dares Wins.

The event took place in Nottingham’s Long Eaton Stadium on the 17th September 1981 and apparently over 5,000 tickets were sold.

Alan Warriner stated of Barry George;

The lad had convinced me he could do it.

He showed me photos supposedly of him doing stunts – and I honestly believed it was him.

On the day the conditions were so bad I begged him not to do the jump I thought he’d die up there. 

When he finally got up on the ramp, he almost lost his nerve.

We were all terrified.

But he just pushed himself off knowing that there was no going back.

Statements by Alan Warriner of Tubbit Scaffolders – Source here

How Much Money Did Barry George’s Grift Earn Him?

It is not known how much money Barry George made from this event or if he ever attempted to sue anyone for the injuries he suffered after rolling stating over the four double decker buses.

On landing, after his roller skating stunt, it was found Barry George had dislocated his spine and had fractured a leg.

Link to Part 14 HERE