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.

Excerpts by Nick Hopkins & Steven Morris for the Guardian article headed Obsessive whose life of fantasy ended in deadly reality dated 3rd July 2001

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;

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.

Excerpts by Nick Hopkins and Steven Morris for the Guardian article headed Obsessive whose life of fantasy ended in deadly reality dated 3rd July 2001

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

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.

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.

Excerpts by Nick Hopkins & Steven Morris for the Guardian article headed Obsessive whose life of fantasy ended in deadly reality dated 3rd July 2001

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 Palace Grounds. 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.

He served 23 before being released.

Excerpts by Nick Hopkins & Steven Morris for the Guardian article headed Obsessive whose life of fantasy ended in deadly reality dated 3rd July 2001

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;

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.”

Excerpts from Paul Cheston’s article for the Evening Standard headed Dando suspect ‘leapt out with machine gun to startle hotel guests’ dated 12th June 2008

Another media article stated;

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.”

Excerpts from a BBC news article headed Dando suspect ‘obsessed with guns’ dated 18th May 2001

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”

Excerpts from an article headed Dando defendant ‘fired handgun into friend’s home’ dated Friday 18th May 2001

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.

Staking, Intimidation & Harassment Of Angela Gordon, Amanda Scriven & Claudia Casey

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.’

Excerpts from a DailyMail article headed Dando’s ‘killer kept photos of other top female TV presenters among thousands of pictures he hoarded at his home’ dated 10th June 2008

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”.

Excerpts by Laura Neil for the Daily Star article headed Woman fled man accused of Jill death dated 14th June 2008

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 Lone Gunman 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

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.

Excerpts from a Guardian article by Nick Hopkins headed Witness in Dando trial found hanged dated 21st August 2001

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

1st August 2008 – Killer Barry George Found Not Guilty Following A Re-Trial

11th May 2011 – Supreme Court Judgement [2011] UKSC 18 Here

Link to Part 12 HERE