Princess Diana unlawfully killed

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Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed on holiday
The jury noted the couple were not wearing seatbelts

Lord Stevens reaction

Princess Diana was unlawfully killed due to the "gross negligence" of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi, an inquest jury has found.

The jury reached the same verdict for her companion Dodi Al Fayed.

The jury also specified that Mr Paul's drink-driving and a lack of seatbelts contributed to their deaths.

Mr Al Fayed's father Mohamed refused to accept the verdict. Former Met Police chief Lord Stephens said he hoped the verdict would bring "closure".

The inquest into the 1997 Paris crash that killed them and Mr Paul lasted six months.

The jury returned joint verdicts of unlawful killing through grossly negligent driving - or gross negligence manslaughter.

Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker thanked them for their "considerable devotion" to duty.

Princess Diana and Dodi was killed when Mr Paul crashed a hired Mercedes into a pillar in the Pont de l'Alma in Paris in the early hours of 31 August, 1997.


I do hope everybody will take this verdict as being closure to this particular tragic incident and the people who've died will be allowed to rest in peace
Lord Stevens
Former Met Police chief

A statement read on behalf of Mohamed Al Fayed said the verdicts would come as a blow to "millions" of his supporters around the world .

"For 10 years I have endured two police investigations. The French and the Scotland Yard inquiries were wrong. These inquests prove it. They said it was an accident and their findings are now dismissed."

As he emerged from the court, he said: "The most important thing is it is murder."

Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens welcomed the verdicts as a "justification" of the inquiry he led into the deaths.

He said: "I just hope that this can bring closure to what has been a traumatic event for many people.

"Mr Al Fayed said that he will accept the verdict of the jury. The verdict has been clear. They have said they are absolutely sure that there is no conspiracy in relation to this matter.

"I do hope everybody will take this verdict as being closure to this particular tragic incident and the people who've died will be allowed to rest in peace."

Princess Diana's sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, left the court without commenting.

The Ministry of Justice confirmed it is not possible for the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute foreign nationals for deaths abroad, even if the victim is British. All of the paparazzi involved were foreign.

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no longer available in uk try this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho55r_s9uFQ

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hate to be all "conspiritorial"...but david icke's view and theory on the killing makes loads of sense. they should've had him in court :)
to me, this case was to frustrate ppl to the point of not caring, and likewise of the rising cost to the tax-payer....how JUST. oh well.
they settled NOTHING.

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i have managed to obtain the bbc vid was hard work to get around but hey its here
http://www.mediafire.com/?oiudmjo33kq in mp4 format

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we should all show our support for Al Fayed http://www.alfayed.com/your%20letters/write%20to%20me.aspx


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Al Fayed considers options

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Mohamed al Fayed is considering his options over whether to continue his legal fight over the deaths of his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales.
His spokesman Michael Cole said he would be having discussions with his family and lawyers.

Although the Harrods chief had previously said he would abide by the verdict of the jury at the inquest into the deaths, Mr Cole told GMTV: "When he made that declaration, it was on the assumption that the jury would be allowed to hear everything. They weren't."

He said the jury had not been allowed to consider a verdict of murder and had not heard evidence from either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.
"He had no way of knowing that so many key French witnesses would refuse to come forward," Mr Cole added.

"It is only reasonable that Mohamed should take time to tell his family the full implications and discuss with his lawyers the full implications and sleep on it."
A spokeswoman for Mr al Fayed, Katharine Witty, told BBC Breakfast: "He accepted the verdict at a time when it hadn't been ruled ... that Prince Philip and the Queen were not going to be approached.

"It also wasn't clear, at that stage, that the French pathologists, who conducted all the blood tests on Henri Paul, and made such a hash of it, were not prepared to come and give evidence.
"Everybody is saying, let it end now, time to move on, and just as William and Harry will never get over the death of their mother, Mohamed will never get over his son, you don't just do that, move on from the death of a child.

"It's whether there's any legal redress following this inquest, and that's something he will be looking at."