In April 1999, Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando was killed by a single gunshot to the head (thought to have been fired by a lone gunman) outside her home.

Police followed a theory that the culprit was an obsessed fan. It led them to look at Barry George, who lived near Dando’s west London home. But, while he was convicted in 2001 and jailed, he was acquitted seven years later.

Now, Netflix is bringing Dando’s life – and death – to our screens in a new true crime series, called Who Killed Jill Dando?.

What will Who Killed Jill Dando? be about?

Who Killed Jill Dando? – which hails from Empress Films – promises to blend archival footage with new research and interviews to revisit Dando’s life and career, as well as her legacy to investigative journalism.

It will, too, delve further into the details surrounding her death, which remains, even now, one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the 20th century. Indeed, it even inspired the complex Gail Vella storyline at the heart of Line Of Duty’s sixth season.

“Parts of the [Line Of Duty] plot seem to draw on the Jill Dando murder and the subsequent arrest of an ‘oddball’ with a fascination for celebrities, firearms residue found, a hitman-style killing,” tweeted former BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw at the time, noting the similarities between Vella and Dando’s deaths.

Jill Dando’s murder was never solved. Now, it’s the subject of a new Netflix series