On Tuesday, Spencer accused the BBC of a “whitewash” over faked bank statements that allegedly helped to secure a historic Panorama interview with his sister. Now Spencer has demanded a formal inquiry into the tactics used by Bashir to obtain the interview, which were recently re-examined in a Channel 4 documentary. He wrote: “If it were not for me seeing these statements, I would not have introduced Bashir to my sister. The issue of the false bank statements was first investigated in 1996, when BBC executive Tony Hall – later the corporation’s director general – cleared Bashir of wrongdoing. “Why did it bend over backwards to whitewash Bashir?

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2020 08:32 UTC