BBC bosses plotted to 'pick off' Panorama staff who exposed Martin Bashir's rogue tactics, according to an explosive document on the Princess Diana scandal. Panorama reporters had come forward to blow the whistle on Bashir's use of forged bank statements to secure his historic 1995 television interview with Diana. An investigation is now taking place into Martin Bashir's BBC interview with Diana in 1995The BBC won praise for commissioning Panorama to, in effect, investigate itself. In recent months Martin Bashir has battled Covid and undergone a quadruple heart bypass. Bashir is accused of peddling lies and smears to persuade a vulnerable Diana to give her world-famous interview that November.

Source: Daily Mail May 17, 2021 21:37 UTC