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After new round of interrogations, French authorities will send Princess Diana's bodyguard flies back to Britain on Friday (TIME Daily...
Last week TREVOR REES-JONES, the bodyguard who was with PRINCESS DIANA and DODI FAYED, underwent questioning by investigating judge HERVE STEPHAN in a heavily guarded second-floor room at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital. Although he recalls the final moments before leaving the Ritz and getting into the car, Rees-Jones, 29, remembers nothing about the accident itself. He did tell the judge that driver HENRI PAUL seemed to be in a perfectly normal state before taking the wheel, though blood tests showed he was legally drunk. But when asked for details about the moments leading up to the accident itself...
...video inside the hotel show him walking in the corridor, talking with Dodi's security guards and, at the end of the footage, waiting at the back entrance for the Mercedes S-280 to be driven to the door. French police now say it was Dodi's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones who decided to switch drivers: to have Dourneau, who had driven the couple all day, take the wheel of the Range Rover to decoy the paparazzi and have Paul drive Dodi and Diana. It is impossible to judge from the jerky, heavily edited tape whether Paul was steady...
...Dodi Fayed were killed. Sancton and his staff interviewed dozens of people, from Paul's tennis partner to bartenders to reluctant employees at the Ritz. This week, teaming up with the CNN/TIME Impact show, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. E.T., Sancton spoke with an eyewitness who comforted injured bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones and made the first emergency call to police. Says Sancton: "I've covered a lot of different stories out of Paris. But this is by far the biggest challenge because of the veil of secrecy surrounding the investigation...
PARIS: The bodyguard has spoken, and investigators have learned almost nothing new. Trevor Rees-Jones underwent 20 minutes of questioning about the fatal car crash by investigating judge Herve Stephan, and the results were not encouraging. "He remembers nothing about the accident," reports TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. "He does remember the final moments before leaving the Ritz and remembers getting into the car. He also told the judge that Henri Paul seemed to be in a perfectly normal state before taking the wheel. But when asked for details about the moments leading up to the accident itself...