BBC Cymru Wales
Forensic assessment · v1.1.0 · updated 1 November 2026
Translation pending: the assessment text below is in English, the authoritative record.
- Response status
- No contact on file
- Last contact
- None on file
- Next date on file
- None on file
- Earlier version
- v1.0.0, published 21 October 2026 on the Legal Wiki
Since last assessment
14 October 2026 to 1 November 2026
Our reading: No new correspondence is on file since the last assessment. The earlier finding stands unchanged.
The assessment as last published
Carried over unchanged from v1.0.0 (21 October 2026). Links point inside this site.
Assessed 14 October 2026. Scope: broadcaster and archive functions only. The BBC is not recorded as a historical participant in the 1988 events. Inclusion is not a finding of fault.
Documented appearances
| Date | Appearance | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2026 | The family’s email to the MP was blind-copied to BBC press and investigations addresses. The investigations address bounced as undeliverable; delivery to the press office address is not confirmed. | Family correspondence |
| September–October 2026 | On 14 October 2026 the family told ITV that a BBC Wales producer had been briefed weeks earlier and was reviewing the story (see the ITV Cymru Wales review). | Email to ITV, 14 Oct 2026 (see ITV Cymru Wales review); not independently verified |
Current finding
As at 14 October 2026, no BBC response is recorded and no wrongdoing is established. The status of the BBC Wales enquiry is the family’s report only. It is kept separate from the ITV enquiry.
Next step
Record the date of the BBC briefing, who was briefed, what was sent, and any reply. Ask whether BBC Cymru Wales holds 1988 news film of the eviction or demolition. Acceptance: a dated record of the BBC contact, and a catalogue reference or dated negative search for 1988 footage.
Related
GHF-E113 — ITV report · National Library of Wales review
Created 14 October 2026. Prepared with AI assistance from the family’s correspondence, on the family’s instruction. Corrections are welcome and will be dated here.
Change history is maintained on the Master Change Log; no separate page-local version footer is maintained.
Case file
This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.
(a) Conduct timeline
0 dated interactions, oldest first; 0 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.
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| Date | Direction | Reference | Type | Verbatim |
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(b) Inconsistencies and gaps
None found in the correspondence on file.
(c) Quarantined-name links
Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.
No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.
(d) Duty and liability — our reading
Liability indicators (our reading): none
- Duty
- Freedom of Information Act 2000 s.1 and s.10 (confirm or deny, and supply held information within 20 working days); Environmental Information Regulations 2004 for land and environmental records; records management under the s.46 Code of Practice; Public Records Act 1958 selection and transfer for central government records.
- Indicators the duty was not met
- none found in the correspondence on file.
- Evidence still needed to confirm
- the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
- Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
- An ICO decision notice or a records-management finding; any reparations claim would also need a link between a records failure and the loss.
(e) Evidence still needed
- Inspect the files it names, or their transferred copies at the archive. for paid visit list
Versions
| 1.1.0 | 2026-11-01 | Moved to the Forensic Assessments webapp; dated “Since last assessment” section added; response status re-read. |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | As published on the Legal Wiki. |