Sunday, November 7, 2021

Still missing

The Mail on Sunday says the BBC investigation into what Martin Bashir and others may have done with the clothes of murdered schoolgirl Karen Hadaway has finished with no new information. The BBC tells the paper that Paul Smith, a former executive hired in mid-September to find out what went on, was  "hampered by the passage of time because some of those people spoken to could not recall being approached in 2004 and others cannot remember details of what they knew at the time".

The paper also reveals that former Panorama reporter Tom Mangold will be compensated for his treatment by management when attempting to blow the whistle over how Bashir secured an interview with Princess Diana. ‘We have reached an in-principle resolution with Tom Mangold although terms are yet to be agreed,’ says the BBC. 

The list of those compensated is growing. Matt Wiessler, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, Mangold, and I guess at least two more former Panorama staff. Contemporaries of Bashir at the programme might be tempted threaten class action for the way BBC press officers briefed against 'jealous colleagues, troublemakers and leakers'.

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