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...short-lived victory. On Friday, Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed won a court battle that means a jury will preside over the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. But now it looks like the jury won't get to hear what he has to say. Al Fayed, who has long held that Diana and his son were murdered by British security services on the orders of Diana's former father-in-law, Prince Philip, was hoping he would finally get the chance to defend his claims to a jury of "ordinary people." At a preliminary hearing...
...support them, I shall not present them to the jury because it would be my duty not to do so." But Al Fayed's lawyer, Michael Mansfield, said the millionaire had already given his evidence to the official British police investigation, which last year concluded the crash that killed Diana, Dodi and their driver in 1997 was an accident. When Butler-Sloss (who is hearing the inquest as assistant deputy coroner for inner west London after the High Court ruled she couldn't sit as deputy royal coroner) was told she already had the evidence she was asking...
...According to Mansfield, the "starting point" would be Al Fayed's testimony that Diana told him she was afraid for her life. In addition, Mansfield wants the inquest to look into the rumor that Diana was pregnant when she died, why her body was embalmed and questions surrounding the blood samples taken from Henri Paul, the chauffeur who also died in the Paris crash, which showed him over the legal drinking limit. Mansfield also noted that letters sent from Prince Philip to Diana and from Diana to her former butler Paul Burrell would be key pieces of evidence...
Nearly 10 years have passed since Princess Diana died, and the Windsors are still haunted by her. The royals expected an inquest into her death but thought it would be a quiet affair, presided over by a single judge. On Friday, however, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrod's, won an unprecedented legal battle to have a jury hear the inquests into the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed. Al Fayed believes Diana and his son were murdered by British intelligence. Three judges at London's High Court overturned a previous ruling by deputy...
...judges said that the main reason for their ruling was to protect the interests of public safety. Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed in Paris when their driver, trying to escape the paparazzi who had followed them from the Ritz Hotel, crashed into a pillar in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel. The judges argued that only a jury would be able to make appropriate recommendations on changing the law to stop paparazzi from harassing celebrities in the future. They also said that the "immense public interest" in the case worldwide called for transparency and made a jury necessary...