There was still another theory involving a hitman, this one from inside England. In 2015, Mark Williams-Thomas, a television journalist and retired police detective, floated the idea that Dando's murder could have been a hit put out by someone in the London underworld in retribution for her work on "Crimewatch," according to the Independent. Four years later, Williams-Thomas interviewed an unnamed hitman who told the journalist he believed he knew who the killer was but refused to say for fear of retribution, per Hello!
"There are some very nasty horrible people out there — criminals — and the crucial element, from their point of view, is that they may perceive that 'Crimewatch' puts criminals away, therefore putting their friends and colleagues away, and I think that was the reason," Williams-Thomas told "This Morning" in 2019 (via Hello!). The police looked into this angle, but after investigating 30 potential suspects and interviewing known underworld hitmen in prison, they found no conclusive evidence to support the theory.
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