'Killed by order of the Underworld..'

Dando shooter was a pro hitman, says ex-criminal

- MATTHEW YOUNG

JILL Dando was killed in an underworld professional hit, a former career criminal claims.

Noel "Razor" Smith, an armed robber-turned writer, is interviewed in a three-part Netflix series about the 1999 murder of the BBC Crimewatch host.

Smith was in HMP Belmarsh when Barry George, wrongly convicted of 37-year-old Dando's murder in 2001, arrived after being charged. George was unanimously acquitted at a 2008 retrial.

Asked if he had any clues as to who killed Dando, Smith says: "I don't really want to talk about that for my own safety. But there are rumours in the criminal world.

"It's not who you would think and it's not Barry George. It was a professional hit."