In his report on 28 January 2004, Lord Hutton concluded that Gilligan’s genuine accusation was “unfounded” and the BBC’s editorial and administration processes had been “defective”. Particularly, it particularly criticised the chain of administration that prompted the BBC to defend its story. The BBC Director of Information, Richard Sambrook , the report said, had accepted Gilligan’s phrase that his story was right regardless of his notes being incomplete. Davies had then advised the BBC Board of Governors that he was pleased with the story and instructed the Prime Minister that a passable inner inquiry had taken place. The Board of…