{"id":35519,"date":"2022-06-27T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jill-dando-may-have-been-shot-by-mistake-after-mafia-hitman-mix-up-court-documents-claim"},"modified":"2022-06-27T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:15:13","slug":"jill-dando-may-have-been-shot-by-mistake-after-mafia-hitman-mix-up-court-documents-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jill-dando-may-have-been-shot-by-mistake-after-mafia-hitman-mix-up-court-documents-claim","title":{"rendered":"Jill Dando may have been shot by mistake after mafia hitman mix-up, court documents claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Dando may have been shot by mistake by a Russian hitman who had intended to target another BBC journalist, documents submitted to a Paris court suggest. Court papers reportedly claim French fashion boss Gerald Marie hired the killer to &#8220;deal with&#8221; Lisa Brinkworth after she went undercover to expose his agency Elite Model Management. They suggest Ms Dando may have been gunned down on her doorstep in a case of mistaken identity because of similarities in the appearance, occupation and addresses of the two women. Lawyers also said Ms Dando&#8217;s fianc&#233; Alan Farthing was Ms Brinkworth&#8217;s doctor, according to the Daily Mail . Mr Marie, 72, is being investigated in France over multiple accusations of alleged sexual assaults &#8211; which he strenuously denies. Ms Brinkworth alleges she was assaulted by Mr Marie in 1998 while working undercover on a BBC expos&#233; about sex crimes in the fashion industry. Lawyers in the documents submitted to a court in Paris refer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Dando may have been shot by mistake by a Russian hitman who had intended to target another BBC journalist, documents submitted to a Paris court suggest.Court papers reportedly claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-35519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}