Diana Inquest: Burrell Slammed & New Evidence Halts Proceedings
Written by Joanne Leyland
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
The inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales
and Dodi Fayed has been halted after the coroner received an e-mail
from France containing potential new evidence.
The information is believed to refer to a sample
taken from the body of the dead driver, Henri Paul. Mohamed Al Fayed
has repeatedly claimed that Paul - the acting head of security at
Fayed's Ritz Hotel - was not drunk, as the official blood samples
revealed.
As he explained why the jury would be sent for an early lunch, the coroner told the court: "We received an email from the French giving information in relation
in very broad terms, although we have not been able to get a proper
translation of it yet, to do with samples and Henri Paul."
"Whether
this contains anything that is new seems very doubtful. Whether it does
contain anything that is relevant also seems pretty doubtful. But having gone six months down the road it seems desirable that we should bottom out this problem before we go any further."
The halt to proceedings came after Lord Justice
Scott Baker continued his exhaustive summing up process, one which it's
believed will take a total of three days. This process began on Monday morning.
The coroner today attacked the evidence of Diana's former butler,
saying it was in his view "blindingly obvious" that Paul Burrell did
not tell the truth during his two-and-a-half day appearance at the High
Court in January.
An undercover video produced by The Sun
newspaper just days after Burrell gave evidence in Court 73 showed the
ex-butler admitting to a friend that he'd thrown in some "red herrings"
during his court appearance.
Lord Justice Scott Baker also condemned the princess's 'rock' for
having cashed in on her name, telling the jury who will ultimately rule
how Diana and Dodi died on August 31st 1997: "You have heard him in
the witness box and even without what he said subsequently in the hotel
room in New York, it was blindingly obvious wasn't it that the evidence
that he gave in this court was not the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth".
Comment: I guess speed is the evidence that could determine if the paps were negligent, and I guess the driver too. I know the seat belts did not cause the accident, but if they had used may have minimized the effect of the accident.
If the paps have been against the law regardless if reckless endangerment charges would not stick. If Paul had been speeding in such a dangerous tunnel it would be easier to call his driving reckless endangerment regardless if he had been drinking, he obviously had been speeding.
The stupid thing is, Di was being chased partly because she was loved by the public, people did buy magazines which carried her photos, and the paps made their living selling these photos.
So maybe we are all to blame.
Name: colleen
Comment: I am finding it rather strange that the coroner has been so public with his opinions before the jury has deliberated. Could the coroner be protecting the royals. He seems so very set in his opinion that it was an accident and the royals werent involved as a coroner should he not look at both sides and be unbiased.
Name: Emily Elizabeth Windsor-Cragg
Comment: The time and place of Diana's death are determined by Occult Astrology, not by coincidence. She died under a monument to the Goddess Diana, in conjunction with an eclipse.
There is more to the story than meets the eye, even now.
And the jury has to make a determination, based not only on what has been presented, but on what has been withheld.
EEWC
Name: anyacat
Comment: it is possible to lose control of a car even if the driver is not drunk, although the only person to question Paul's blood test results is al Fayed and last I looked, he didn't have the blood to test on his own and no credentials test blood even if he had a sample.
Name: Monika
Comment: Emily, Henri Paul was seen drinking at the bar. But for the sake of the argument, let's say he wasn't drunk. Isn't it possible that it was just an accident? Clearly, there was a chase and he appeared to relish it.
Name: Monika
Comment: Oh good grief is right...
Name: Emily Elizabeth Windsor-Cragg
Comment: If he wasn't drunk, the accident was either suicide or staged against his limo, in which case it was a conspiracy.
... And then there's still the reason WHY for the delay, that it took 90 minutes to get 3 miles to the hospital. What was the ambulance waiting for?
Seems they've talked at length about just about everything else. That jury must be exhausted.
EEWC
Name: Julie C.
Comment: Oh good grief! What could possibly be "new" after 10+ years and exhaustive media coverage?
