A trial date has been set for the man cleared of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando who has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl almost 40 years ago.<\/p>\n
Barry George (66), originally from Co Cork, previously pleaded not guilty at Southwark Crown Court to one count of rape and two counts of indecent assault.<\/p>\n
He also denied an alternative offence of attempted rape.<\/p>\n
The incidents are alleged to have taken place in the Hammersmith and Fulham area of west London between September 6th and September 12th 1987.<\/p>\n
A hearing was held at the same court on Tuesday and a trial date was set for April 26th next year.<\/p>\n
Judge Tony Baumgartner fixed the trial date and also said a pretrial review would take place on April 12th.<\/p>\n
George was arrested on suspicion of murder in 2000, a year after Dando was killed.<\/p>\n
He was convicted in 2001, but the conviction was quashed in November 2007 by the Court of Appeal and he was cleared by a jury in August 2008 after a retrial.<\/p>\n
Former Crimewatch presenter Dando (37), was one of the BBC\u2019s highest-profile stars when she was shot outside her home in Fulham, west London, on April 26th, 1999.<\/p>\n
No one has been convicted of her killing since. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trial date has been set for the man cleared of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[171471,171472,21659,171473,171474,37784,29161,70061,10179,36601,11223,26444,11226,171475,6630,23302,229,8954,171476,14833,171477,16906,106019,4530,171478,4644,171479,93,66153,6503,38472,9447,46131,8569,61435,3355,61,60,171480,77542,14832,82815,171481,2091,171482,5907,17536,171483,171484,43,38256,70637,19784,171485,3185,57364,47139,171486,6509,23553,16620,3589,9333,171487,713,23292,30220,171488,19681,3186,14825,90,812,171489,171490,171491,5906,16878,48475],"class_list":["post-572165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-171471","tag-171472","tag-21659","tag-171473","tag-47th","tag-a","tag-after","tag-also","tag-american","tag-are","tag-as","tag-at","tag-been","tag-businessperson","tag-c","tag-candidate","tag-chinese","tag-college","tag-contested","tag-democratic","tag-depicting","tag-display","tag-dolls","tag-donald","tag-elected","tag-elections","tag-electoral","tag-entertainment","tag-federation","tag-female","tag-following","tag-former","tag-gift","tag-harris","tag-has","tag-having","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-j","tag-jinping","tag-kamala","tag-known","tag-l","tag-male","tag-matryoshka","tag-more","tag-moscow","tag-necessary","tag-nesting","tag-news","tag-nov","tag-november","tag-personality","tag-politician","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-putin","tag-r","tag-race","tag-reactions","tag-republican","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-secured","tag-shop","tag-states","tag-than","tag-tightly","tag-traditional","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vice","tag-vladimir","tag-votes","tag-with","tag-wooden","tag-xi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}