More Developments on Murder of Lady Di
Here is an update on the goings on of the death of Lady Diana. Note that 43% of all Londoners polled believe it was amiss. I expect the numbers to increase as the facts come out. Feel free to comment or e-mail: wahkonta@graffiti.net
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Driver's DWI doubted
By ELLEN TUMPOSKY
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
British cops may quiz Prince Charles in inquiry into death of Princess Di
and Dodi Al-Fayed.
LONDON - British cops are likely to quiz top intelligence officers and even
Prince Charles in their investigation into Princess Diana's death in a Paris
car crash.
Conspiracy theorists who believe Diana was murdered pointed to a report in
The Times of London yesterday that Scotland Yard doubts the authenticity of
the blood sample from Diana's chauffeur, which determined that he was drunk
the night she was killed.
Investigators looking into the crash on the orders of royal coroner Michael
Burgess - who is conducting a long-delayed British inquest - are troubled by
the failure of French investigators to conduct a DNA test to prove the blood
sample actually belonged to driver Henri Paul.
His family has always contested the findings of French authorities that
Paul's blood-alcohol level was three times higher than the French limit when
he drove the Mercedes S280 into a tunnel pillar on Aug. 31, 1997, killing
Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed. Paul also died in the accident, while Diana's
bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, who survived, has no memory of what occurred.
British police also plan to interview top officials in MI5 and MI6 -
Britain's internal and external spy agencies - and to question Prince
Charles, according to The Times. Diana wrote a letter 10 months before she
died saying that her ex-husband wanted to kill her so that he could marry
his lover, Camilla Parker Bowles.
A Scotland Yard official refused to comment yesterday on the Times of London
report.
Judy Wade, a biographer of Diana, said a bodyguard who worked for Mohammed
Al-Fayed, Henri Paul's boss and Dodi's dad, told her that Paul was, in fact,
drunk that night.
"He smelled it on his breath," she said, calling the new speculation
"rubbish."
Suspicion about Paul's blood sample centers on its extremely high levels of
carbon monoxide - the gas found in car exhausts - which the French inquiry
has never been able to explain. The Times of London said the chauffeur would
have struggled to walk, much less drive, had there been that much carbon
monoxide in his blood.
The newspaper suggested his sample could have been switched with one
belonging to someone who died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Although one poll last week found that 43% of Londoners thought Diana had
been murdered, Charles received public support when he made appearances
after the inquest opened. Health Secretary John Reid, a close ally of Prime
Minister Tony Blair, said on Friday, "We should be supporting him and
getting off his back."
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