He has framed me thinking I would never find out. 'Bashir has effectively stolen my identity stolen my banking information and then used it to frame me as the fall guy. Waller has denied ever receiving the payments and told the Telegraph: 'This man has become a multi-millionaire by using me. She later withdrew claims about the payments, Bashir is said to have alleged. He told Lord Dyson that Diana was the source of the claims that payments were being made into the account of Earl Spencer's ex-head of security.
The Telegraph reports that Bashir defended the use of the mocked-up bank statements by insisting he only did it after being given the information by the princess. May 14, 2021: The BBC announces Mr Bashir has quit on health grounds.
November 18: BBC orders six-month inquiry by former judge Lord Dyson. November 7: The Daily Mail reveals a shocking dossier held by Diana's brother Earl Spencer revealing alleged royal smears, lies and tricks that Mr Bashir used to land his interview. October 2020: Channel 4 documentary alleges there was 'elaborate plot' by Mr Bashir to trick Diana into talking. He resigns in 2013 after controversial remarks about vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.Ģ016: BBC re-hires Mr Bashir as religious affairs correspondent. Suspended in 2008 after making 'Asian babes' remark at Asian American Journalists convention.Ģ010: Joins NBC News as an MSNBC anchor. May 2004: Quits to host ABC's Nightline in US. His scoops include interview with Stephen Lawrence suspects and documentary on Michael Jackson. The BBC holds internal inquiry dismissed as a 'whitewash'.ġ999: Moves to ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald. November 1995: The famous interview with Princess Diana turns Mr Bashir into TV's hottest property.ġ996: The Mail on Sunday reveals claims that Mr Bashir used faked bank documents to persuade Diana to talk. It is expected to be published this week.ġ986: Martin Bashir joins BBC as news correspondent and works on programmes including Songs of Praise, Public Eye and Panorama. Lord Dyson's much-anticipated report was delivered to corporation top brass at the weekend, amid news of Bashir's resignation as religion editor on grounds of ill-health. The BBC commissioned the former Master of the Rolls to investigate last November amid claims Bashir peddled royal smears and lies to trick Diana into the interview. In April 1996, Matt Wiessler, the graphics designer who mocked up the bank statements on Bashir's orders, was made a scapegoat and sacked. The statements showed fake payments from a newspaper and from an offshore company totalling £10,500 going into a bank account of a company owned by Earl Spencer's former head of security, Alan Waller.īashir is accused of using them to gain Earl Spencer's trust and persuade him to introduce him to his sister in order to land an exclusive interview, which she used to make incendiary claims about her marriage to Prince Charles. The hoax bank statements are at the heart of a six month probe, which was led by retired judge Lord Dyson, into allegations that the BBC's former religion editor used rogue tactics to land his scoop with the princess. Martin Bashir claimed that Princess Diana gave him key information contained in fake bank statements which he used to gain her brother Earl Spencer's trust and secure his bombshell 1995 Panorama interview.
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