Cutting a forlorn figure, Martin Bashir is seen for the first time since the devastating Dyson inquiry into his Panorama interview with Princess Diana. His former boss Tony Hall has also been seen for the first time since last month’s damning findings by Lord Dyson. Lord Hall, head of news at the time of the Diana interview but director-general when Bashir was rehired, was pictured leaving his Oxfordshire home. Lord Hall, 70, who stepped down from the BBC last year, resigned as chairman of the National Gallery in the aftermath of the scathing Dyson inquiry, which branded his investigation into the reporter’s deceit ‘woefully ineffective’. Tim Davie, his successor as director-general, ordered an immediate review into why Bashir, who left the BBC in 1999, was rehired 2016.

Source: Daily Mail June 07, 2021 21:08 UTC