Earl Spencer is set to give evidence at the online hearing today (Image: Getty)

       Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer is today set to give evidence about claims that the BBC is concealing a cover-up in securing the sensational Martin Bashir Panorama interview with her.

       The BBC is accused of failing to release details under freedom of information law relating to how it handled the scandal when it emerged in 2020, reports The Times.

       The documentary maker Andy Webb, who exposed Bashir’s lies, is challenging the broadcaster’s refusal to hand over internal emails at the first tier information rights tribunal - a court that rules on whether information should be released under the Freedom of Information Act.

       Webb claims that the BBC is refusing to release more than 3,000 emails relating to its handling of the scandal.

       The Panorama scandal emerged after the BBC sent Spencer a copy of a redacted confidential briefing by Lord Hall of Birkenhead, then head of news and later director-general, to the broadcaster’s governors in 1996 which wrongly suggested that Spencer had given Bashir bank statements of his former head of security.

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       Princess Diana agreed to the sensational 1995 documentary with the BBC (Image: Getty)

       But today Earl Spencer, 59, is set to deny having had any involvement in providing bank statements used by Bashir to secure the interview that Prince William says fuelled her “fear, paranoia and isolation” and worsened his parents’ relationship.

       The BBC has objected to Spencer being called as a witness, claiming that his evidence is irrelevant.

       Spencer took to Twitter in March last year to express his thoughts after the princess's former private secretary Patrick Jephson was paid a "substantial sum" and received a formal apology from the BBC for the "harm caused to him" after the Bashir interview.

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       Earl Spencer wrote: “The right result - appalling what Patrick Jephson had to go through as a result of grotesque ‘journalism’.

       “Also terrible that it was covered up for so long by senior people at the @BBCNews - there will be more to come out on all this, before long.”

       The investigation was presided over by Lord Dyson, a former Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice.

       A report by Lord Dyson said in 2021 that the BBC had covered up deceitful behaviour by Bashir.

       Prince William called for the interview never to be broadcast again.

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