Police refuse to probe BBC Diana interview
POLICE yesterday refused to investigate the BBC over its fraudulently obtained interview with Princess Diana – despite a fresh call from her brother.
The tragic royal’s sibling earl Spencer is demanding Scotland Yard look anew at what he said lawyers called ‘unlawful and criminal behaviour’ by the broadcaster.
He also claims the deceit ultimately led to her death. He spoke out days after the BBC paid £200,000 in damages to former Palace aide Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
Court action forced the BBC to pay up over disgraced reporter martin Bashir’s lies that she was having an affair with Prince Charles, and even aborted his baby, to secure his infamous 1995 interview with Diana. earl Spencer, 58, wrote in yesterday’s mail on Sunday: ‘The question I am repeatedly asked... is why have the police not prosecuted those involved for what various senior lawyers have told me is clearly unlawful and criminal behaviour?’
But a metropolitan Police spokesman simply repeated its view that an investigation was ‘not appropriate’, adding: ‘There’s no change as a result of the most recent reporting.’ The bombshell interview famously featured the princess telling the world: ‘There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.’ only last year, the BBC finally stopped denying Bashir’s wrongdoing after Supreme Court Judge Lord Dyson’s independent inquiry.
Earl Spencer, who was also ‘groomed’ by the journalist, believes the deceit led to Prince Diana’s death in a Paris underpass, when the car she was in with boyfriend Dodi Fayed crashed in 1997. She no longer had Royal Protection officers, having lost trust in officialdom thanks to Bashir’s lies about a conspiracy against her.
BBC director-general Tim Davie has apologised for Bashir’s tactics, promising that the interview will not be shown again.
aS sure as eggs is eggs, Remain fundamentalists blame any problem befalling this country on one thing: Brexit.
this time, they claim the border chaos at Dover – with horrendous queues and travellers to the Continent forced to sleep in their cars – wouldn’t have happened if we’d stayed in the EU.
there is just one problem with this analysis. It’s hogwash. Since Britain was never in the open-borders Schengen area, the French have always checked our passports.
In fact, the misery was caused because France – possibly seeking to punish us for Brexit as the summer holiday season gets into full swing – refused to put enough staff on its immigration desks.
But why would Remainers let the facts get in the way of their horror story? that would give them one less opportunity to bash Britain for leaving their beloved antidemocratic bloc.
IF disgraced Martin Bashir hadn’t deceived and manipulated Princess Diana into giving her 1995 Panorama interview (dishonesty the BBC despicably covered up) she might still be alive. her brother believes this ‘criminal behaviour’ triggered the chain of events that ultimately led to her death. he is right to demand Scotland Yard investigate the broadcaster. those involved should be in the dock.