Prince William Statement Following Lord Dyson Report
Dyson found that Bashir commissioned phoney bank transactions by a graphic designer who worked for the BBC. They purported to show payments from News International into the account of Alan Waller, a former security guard for Earl Spencer, to induce Spencer to arrange a meeting with his sister, Diana.
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At a meeting with Spencer at his Althorp estate on 14 September, Bashir also showed him fake statements that he had forged himself, suggesting Prince Charles’s private secretary, Commander Aylard, was being paid by “dark forces” hostile to Diana.
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While scathing of the deception deployed by Martin Bashir, the clear finding by Lord Dyson that the BBC then engaged in a cover-up is likely to be the source of even greater damage to the broadcaster’s reputation for integrity.