Terry Prone: Diana's desperate need to be heard made her vulnerable to Bashir's con

The Dyson report should be a warning to us all: Con artists get away with it because their victims go halfway to meet them

Martin Bashier’s 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana came under the spotlight over ethical irregularity. File picture: BBC

More than a hundred pages written by a retired British high court judge. Not, you might think, a cracking weekend read, but John Dyson’s report is exactly that. Any bestselling thriller writer would be hard put to compete with the excitement delivered by the crisp short sentences.

The report was completed in a remarkably short time, at a cost of £1.5m (€1.74m). Cheap at the price. It should be on the curriculum of every third-level media course. And on the curriculum of An Garda Síochána’s training college in Templemore. Not to mention on the curriculum of every corporate governance course. It’s that good, quite apart from being that entertaining.