Inquiry hears Gilligan misled BBC managers

ANDREW GILLIGAN, the reporter at the centre of the row over the British Government’s Iraq weapons dossier, misled senior BBC managers over his contacts with weapons expert David Kelly, the inquiry into the scientist’s death was told yesterday.

BBC director of news Richard Sambrook said the journalist had insisted throughout the corporation’s row with the Government that he stood by his reporting of Dr Kelly’s claims.

However under cross-examination at the Hutton Inquiry, both Mr Gilligan and Mr Sambrook admitted key elements of Mr Gilligan’s reporting on the Radio 4 Today programme had been “incorrect”.