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Originally instructed to emerge with a unanimous verdict, the jury was deadlocked into the fourth day of deliberations. The judge, coroner Scott Baker, then told them he would accept a majority decision of nine jurors. An hour after that, they came back with "unlawful killing." In an inquest of few real surprises, this was one of the biggest. Most observers had thought they would agree with the conclusions of the French and British police, ruling the incident an accident. But the jury decided someone had to take the blame...
...total waste of time and money.' LORD FOULKES OF CUMNOCK, a member of Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee, calling for an end to the "circus" inquest into Princess Diana's death, which began last October...
...Courtesies aside, Mansfield's main goal was to extract from Lady Sarah the whereabouts of missing letters between Diana and Prince Philip, Diana's former father-in-law, which he believes could explain Diana's death - or, as he sees it, murder. Previously in the inquest, Diana's confidant Simone Simmons, a self-described natural healer and clairvoyant, testified that Diana had shown her the letters, in which she said Prince Philip described Diana as a "harlot and trollop." Lady Sarah has denied ever seeing them. However, a detective investigating Diana's former butler Paul Burrell on suspicion of theft...
...Some moments are shared only among sisters. So when Lady Sarah took the stand at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed on Monday, attorneys hoped to unearth some of the secrets that Lady Sarah may have been privy to - particularly those regarding Diana's relationship with Dodi and the Royals. She didn't disappoint. She claimed that on August 29, 1997, just two days before the Princess's death, Diana phoned her from the Al Fayeds's luxury yacht to express her fear that she was under surveillance. "She thought the boat was being...
...Diana's relationship with Al Fayed junior? Lady Sarah questioned its significance and dismissed any talk of engagement and pregnancy. She could not recall Diana ever mentioning that Dodi gave her gifts - let alone a big diamond ring. And during the August 29 phone conversation, Lady Sarah told the inquest, Diana suggested that Dodi was unsympathetic to her problems. She was "distraught" that the French newspaper Le Monde had misquoted her on the subject of land mines, making her seem critical of the government. Lady Sarah suggested that Diana speak to Dodi, but the Princess snapped that it would...