Venables went on to sue the BBC unsuccessfully.
Lord Dyson said the terms of his inquiry meant he would not examine claims that Bashir used 'similar techniques of document fabrication' on a documentary about former England football manager Terry Venables. Today there are several calls for police to probe whether former BBC chiefs should be investigated.Ĩ: Did Bashir use similar deceit in Terry Venables documentary? When the News of the World newspaper was accused of underhand behaviour, it did not take long before Scotland Yard was conducting dawn raids. Lord Hall cleared Bashir as 'honest and honourable' in his 1996 inquiry without even checking if Earl Spencer had any evidenceħ: Would BBC cooperate with a criminal inquiry? Panorama producer Mark Killick's home was also burgled. The vital evidence vanished in the mysterious raid on the night of the Panorama Christmas party in December 1995. We still don't know who burgled the flat of BBC graphics designer Matt Wiessler and stole nothing but two computer disks containing the fake bank statements. Lord Dyson ruled out Diana or her brother providing them, suggesting Bashir must have used some other method to get hold of the information.Ĥ: Who burgled faked bank statements from graphic designer? There is a lingering mystery over the fake bank statements Bashir used to gain access to Diana – because somehow he had obtained specific personal account details to put on to them. Alison Kelly, a press officer, told the inquiry she recalled being asked to inform the Panorama team 'that the BBC was briefing the press that it suspected that stories about fake bank statements were being leaked by jealous colleagues'.ģ: How did Bashir get bank details for forgeries? Worse, the BBC then launched a cynical 'briefing' campaign. The whistleblowers certainly think so as they were hounded out the corporation as 'troublemakers'. The Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana in November 1995, which used mocked up bank statements to get her speakĢ: Was there a 'hostile' culture to whistleblowers? Lord Birt, who was then director-general, also pleaded ignorance. The boss was not unmasked by Lord Dyson, but he revealed how the editors of Radio 4's Today, The World at One and PM programmes were told by 'a senior BBC news and current affairs executive' that 'if anyone asks about Bashir, the official line is, 'It's not interesting'.' Lord Hall, who was head of news and current affairs at the time, said he 'didn't know' who the culprit was. It was revealed that a BBC executive told the corporation's own flagship news programmes to look the other way about Bashir. Here Chief Reporter SAM GREENHILL examines some of the most pressing. The BBC has been plunged into one of the worst crises in its history by the fallout from the scandal, with Princes William and Harry accusing the corporation of ruining their mother’s life with its ‘deceitful’ exclusive.Īnd while Lord Dyson's excoriating 127-page inquiry report was damning of the BBC, many questions remain. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the former judge’s findings raised ‘very serious issues’ – and suggested ‘fraud’ and ‘forgery’ may have occurred. Yesterday, the force promised it would ‘assess’ any new evidence in Lord Dyson’s explosive report on the affair.
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It will dramatically intensify the pressure on the Met for a full probe into how Martin Bashir induced Diana to agree to the 1995 bombshell broadcast. Earl Spencer has written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, alleging his sister was the victim of blackmail and fraud, the Mail can reveal. Princess Diana’s brother last night demanded Scotland Yard investigate the BBC over her Panorama interview.
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