First the crime: on Oaks Day, November 6, 1997, Jane Thurgood-Dove, 35, pulled into the driveway of her Muriel Street home, having picked up her three children aged 11, six and three from school and preschool. As she was getting out of her Toyota Land Cruiser with her children still strapped in their seats, a stolen Commodore pulled up behind to block her escape and a pot-bellied gunman stepped out.
For five years, police pursued the wrong suspect in the murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove, shot dead in her Niddrie driveway in November 1997.
He chased her twice around her car until she slipped,…
