Judge lays bare Bashir’s deceit in securing interview with Diana
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Martin Bashir was deceitful and the BBC was woeful, Lord Dyson’s investigation concluded.
Dyson also said in the first paragraph of his report that it was all unnecessary.
Diana, Princess of Wales was already keen on the idea of a television interview in 1995 “even without the intervention of Mr Bashir”, he said.
As it is, Bashir’s interventions and character have been roundly condemned by Dyson while the BBC’s subsequent “cover-up” led it to fall “short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark”.
In a letter to Bashir the day after the broadcast, Lord Hall of Birkenhead praised his “skill, sensitivity and excellent judgment . . . I also think you have carried yourself during this whole episode in absolutely