Dando case shatters TV myth

Detective Chief Superintendent Lockhart, in the TV series No Hiding Place, always got his man, and the right man.  So did Charlie Barlow in Z-Cars and Softly, Softly.  Yesterday’s news that the convicted killer of Jill Dando had been acquitted, once again, shatters the fictional certainty I grew up with but, more worrying, it also [...]