{"id":3950,"date":"2018-12-11T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2021-02-11T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:08:44","slug":"pardoned-by-alex-willmott-chief-features-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/pardoned-by-alex-willmott-chief-features-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>On 26 April 1999, TV favourite Jill Dando was fatally shot outside her Fulham&nbsp;home in London. I was 15 years, and I remember feeling a sense of shock, shared by anyone who watched UK television at the time. A little over a year later, local man Barry George was arrested and charged with the murder. A murder he would be found guilty of and subsequently handed a life sentence for. Eight years into the sentence, the Old Bailey would clear Barry of the horrific crime.<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Barry\u2019s sister Michelle&nbsp;Diskin Bates, who recalled her experience for Sorted magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle, what were your initial feelings and how on earth did you process it all?<\/p>\n<p>My world went into a tailspin&nbsp;in&nbsp;May of&nbsp;2000,&nbsp;when my brother was arrested&nbsp;for one of the highest-profile crimes in Britain in recent years, the murder of Jill Dando, much-loved BBC presenter.&nbsp;My&nbsp;mum didn\u2019t tell me because she&nbsp;thought it would all blow over and I wouldn\u2019t need to be b...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 April 1999, TV favourite Jill Dando was fatally shot outside her Fulham&nbsp;home in London. I was 15 years, and I remember feeling a sense of shock, shared by anyone who watched UK television at the time. A little over a year later, local man Barry George was arrested and charged with the murder. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[49,496,525,1417,1418,1419,1420,1421,1422,1423,1424,1425,1426,1427],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-sorted","tag-bbc","tag-london","tag-alex-wilmott","tag-barry-george","tag-bible-study","tag-ccrc","tag-fulham","tag-jill-dando","tag-michelle-diskin-bates","tag-mojo","tag-pardoned","tag-uai","tag-united-against-injustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}