An investigation into former BBC journalist Martin Bashir has concluded that he deceived and induced Earl Charles Spencer to help him secure a major television interview with the earls sister, Princess Diana.
Spencer told the BBC in a new interview that he believed the relationship between Diana and the journalist played a part in his sisters untimely death.
The irony is that I met Martin Bashir on the 31st August, 1995, because exactly two years later, she died. And I do draw a line between the two events, Spencer said in an interview set to air in full Thursday evening.
Bashirs interview with Diana, which aired on Nov. 20, 1995, was a bombshell: She stated that Prince Charles had been unfaithful to her by maintaining a relationship with a former girlfriend, Camilla Parker-Bowles.
There were three of us in this marriage, Diana said at the time, so it was a bit crowded.
Accusations that the interview had been secured through trickery emerged in the following months, but the BBC cleared Bashir of wrongdoing in 1996, saying its editors had looked into the matter.
Fresh allegations from Spencer, however, prompted the BBC to commission a full report late last year. The outlet tapped Lord John Dyson, a former judge, to investigate.
Dyson compiled his findings in a 127-page report with accompanying documentation published Thursday, the result of interviews with 18 people largely BBC personnel, including Bashir. Several others, including a nanny for Prince William and Prince Harry , gave Dyson written statements.
Dyson concluded that Bashir and the BBC fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark, and that both worked to cover up how Bashir secured the interview. The journalist made a serious breach of the news organizations code of conduct, Dyson wrote.
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