Bunhill: Victorious

BUNHILL is victorious. A fund manager called Ian Kennedy, who works at Baring Brothers, the City merchant bank, complained to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission about a television programme I made that was broadcast by Channel 4 last November.

Poor old Kennedy complained that the programme alleged that he was an insider dealer (it did not). He also complained that he had been harassed. He was not.

More poignantly, though, the programme pointed out that Kennedy, when a fund manager with Govett Strategic (remember how horribly wrong that one went) allowed the fund to invest in a company called SSK Visuals. The only other shareholder in SSK was a fellow called Roland Kennedy. And yes, the Kennedys are brothers.

The BCC rejected the bulk of Kennedy's complaint, saying only that there was 'a distinct unfairness in the programme's treatment of his departure from Govett.' Ah well, win some, lose some.