Jill Dando Cause Of Death

Jill Wendy Dando was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader.

Jill Dando spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation’s Personality of the Year in 1997.

At the time of Jill Dando’s death, her television work included co-presenting the BBC One programme Crimewatch with Nick Ross.

Jill Dando was educated at Worle Infant School, Greenwood Junior School, Worle Comprehensive School, and Broadoak Sixth Form Centre, where she was head girl, and passed two A-levels.

Jill Dando studied journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff and was a member of Weston-super-Mare Amateur Dramatic Society and Exeter Little Theatre Company, with whom she appeared in plays at the Barnfield Theatre.

Jill Dando was also was a volunteer at Sunshine Hospital Radio in Weston-super-Mare in 1979.

Sadly, Jill Dando met her untimely death in 1999.

What was Jill Dando’s cause of death?

On the morning of 26 April 1999, Jill Dando, 37, left Farthing’s home in Chiswick and returned alone, by car, then to the house she owned in Fulham.

As Jill Dando reached her front door at about 11:32, she was shot once in the head and her body was discovered about fourteen minutes later by neighbour Helen Doble.

The Police were called at 11:47 and Jill Dando was taken to the nearby Charing Cross Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival at 13:03 BST.