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BBC News By Joseph Lee image captionWhistleblower Matt Wiessler revealed faked documents helped to secure a BBC interview with Princess Diana in 1995 The whistleblower who first warned the BBC about the faked documents at the heart of the Princess Diana interview controversy has said he wants an apology from bosses at the time. Matt Wiessler said a letter sent on Thursday night was "too little, too late". The graphic designer mocked up fake bank statements in 1995 at the request of Panorama interviewer Martin Bashir. But he did not know what they would be used for until after the broadcast. F...

Matt Wiessler and Mark Killick lost their livelihoods when they flagged Martin Bashir’s deceitful tactics to the corporation.

Last modified on Fri 21 May 2021 11.41 EDT The graphic designer who mocked up bank statements that helped Martin Bashir secure an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales has demanded a face-to face-apology from the director general of the BBC after being exonerated by a report into the scandal. In the report, Lord Dyson praised Matt Wiessler for acting “responsibly and appropriately” after he blew the whistle on Bashir when he realised how the fake statements had been used to gain the trust of Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer. Wiessler told the Guardian he had been treated “disgracefu...

The Dyson Bashir report exposes a pattern in the way the BBC deals with scandals and mistakes. Those who fail upwards and victimisation of whistleblowers.

The father-of-three's wife Deborah Bashir, 63, and daughter Eliza, 25, were photographed carrying a suitcase and two overnight bags into a waiting Audi A5 outside their detached home in Hampshire.