Diana Inquest: Paparazzo Received Death Threat After Crash
Written by Joanne Leyland
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
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A paparazzo whose agency owns pictures which
show Diana, Princess of Wales lying fatally injured in the immediate
aftermath of the Paris crash has told the inquest into her death that a
bomb threat was sent
to his office on the eve of the princess's funeral.
Darren Lyons, who recently spoke about the photographs of Diana which he says
shows the princess looking peaceful and like “an angel” appeared at the High
Court inquest via video link from Sydney.
It was on September 5th 1997 - the eve of Diana’s Westminster Abbey
funeral – that a mysterious phone call was made to the London offices of Lyons'
photo agency, Big Pictures, where the called allegedly said: "You
killed Diana, we are going to kill you, we are going to blow up your
building."
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, media outlets across the world
were targeted by increasingly angry members of the public, some of whom
actively blamed even the most restrained sections of the media of
haunting Diana to her death.
Lyons told the inquest that upon his return to
his darkened office in the aftermath of the bomb threat, he believed he saw a
suspicious fuzzy light and could even hear "ticking noises".
Nicholas Hilliard QC, representing the coroner, suggested that these were
caused by nothing more than a ticking clock and a light on a computer which had
been left on in the Big Pictures office.
A search carried out after the bomb threat was received at the offices of one of the world’s most powerful and
money-spinning picture agencies revealed nothing suspicious.
