Royal tales and true June 29, 2004 – … Then there’s the claim that Martin Bashir used forged documents to
Category: Martin Bashir
Bashir Misplaced Police Evidence? Misconduct around another documentary subject
Tuesday, 23rd March 2004 BBC ‘lost Babes in Wood case clothes’ THE BBC is investigating accusations that it lost potentially
I was blackmailed by Bashir, says child prodigy’s father – Mail on Sunday
I was blackmailed by Bashir, says child prodigy’s father
By Louisa Pritchard February 23 2003
The Mail on Sunday Controversial TV journalists Martin Bashir has been hauled before the Broadcasting Standards Commission after being accused of blackmail by one of his interviewees.
Farooq Yusof, father of runaway child prodigy Sufiah told the commission at a private hearing in London on Wednesday that Bashir had claimed to have vital information about his missing daughter — but would reveal it only if Mr. Yusof would appear in a Bashir documentary.
In the film, shown on ITV’s Tonight With Trevor McDonald in 2001, Bashir interviewed Sufiah — then aged 16 — who had run away from Oxford University to escape her ‘domineering’ father.
Martin Bashir faces official criticism – censured for lying to interview subject
23 April 2003 Martin Bashir faces official criticism The Broadcasting Standards Commission has partly upheld a complaint about Martin Bashir’s
Adjudication of the Yusof Complaint Against Martin Bashir (April 2003)
Archive page for Apr 30, 2003 * adjudication Complaint about unjust or unfair treatment by Mr Farooq Yusof submitted on
Bashir faces fresh criticism
Martin Bashir, the TV journalist accused of betraying Michael Jackson, is at the centre of a fresh row over allegations that he "blackmailed" the father of a runaway child prodigy to appear in one of his documentaries.
Farooq Yusof, whose daughter Sufiah ran away from Oxford University at the age of 16, last week told a confidential hearing of the broadcasting standards commission that Bashir had promised to give him information about his daughter in return for an interview for ITV’s Tonight With Trevor McDonald.