The man jailed for life for the murder of British TV presenter Jill Dando has failed in his latest bid for freedom.
The House of Lords has refused permission for Barry George (42) to mount a further challenge to his conviction.
George lost an appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal in July. The Court of Appeal also refused his lawyers permission to take the case to the Lords on a point of law.
However, they applied directly to a committee of Law Lords for permission. But the House of Lords has now refused permission to appeal.
The publication of their ruling does not give reasons for the refusal of permission to challenge the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold the murder conviction.
George, who claims his conviction is "unsafe", was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2001 after being found guilty of the April 1999 shooting of the BBC Crimewatch presenter on the steps of her home in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, south west London.
Refusing to quash the conviction at the Court of Appeal in July, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, and two other judges said that looking at the evidence as a whole they had "no doubt as to the correctness of the conviction".
The appeal centred on the crucial question of identification evidence. George, of Crookham Road, Fulham, continues to protest his innocence.
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