Earl Spencer has suggested that he was "groomed" and "duped" by Martin Bashir in order for the journalist to secure an interview for Panorama with his sister Princess Diana.
Responding to a report into the interview published today that concluded that Bashir acted inappropriately and in serious breach of BBC guidelines, the earl said that he did not have proof of the deception until last year.
In a written statement, he said: "I had come to accept that Bashir had shown me fake bank accounts to groom me, so that he could then get to Diana for the interview he was always secretly after. “However, I had no proof that this was the case. “It was not until last October 2020 that I received that proof, in the form of the FOIA (Freedom of
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