BBC REJECTS CLAIMS BASHIR WAS REHIRED IN ‘COVER UP’ LEAVES EARL SPENCER IN ‘DISBELIEF’
Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer has said he was left in “disbelief” when a BBC review into the decision to re-hire Martin Bashir found “no evidence” that the journalist was given the job to “contain and/or cover up” the events surrounding his 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.
A report conducted by Lord Dyson last month revealed that the broadcaster covered up “deceitful behaviour” used by Bashir to secure the interview in which the princess famously said: “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
A review to decide whether or not to re-hire Bashir as religious affairs correspondent in 2016, commissioned by the BBC, said the theory that the journalist was re-employed to conceal events surrounding the interview was “entirely unfounded”.
Charles responded to the report on Twitter, writing: “It won’t end with this, I promise.”
When asked to expand on the tweet, he told LBC: “Bashir is Bashir, and there we are, but I do think the BBC has had an enormous amount to answer for.
“So I wrote that in disbelief when they came up with yet another of their own reports.
“I don’t think it’s very healthy for an institution to report on itself.
“They found no connection between Bashir being rehired and his previous known lies and other things.”
