Martin Bashir wasn’t rehired by BBC to cover up ‘deceitful’ Princess Diana interview, report finds

The BBC inquiry was commissioned after a previous report found the journalist acted in a deceitful way to get the televised interview, the outlet shared.

The investigation concluded that no one in the 58-year-old's 2016 rehiring had knowledge of the matters involved in the controversial Panorama interview. The outlet shared that if they had known, he "would have never been reappointed." Ken MacQuarrie, the BBC’s former director of nations and regions, was asked by BBC director-general Tim Davie to examine the recruitment process that took place, which resulted in Bashir becoming the BBC News’ religious affairs correspondent in September 2016, Deadline.com reported.