| Diana Inquest: Jurors Continue Deliberations |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | ||||||||||
| Thursday, 03 April 2008 | ||||||||||
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jury at the inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed
have begun a second day of deliberations ahead of returning a verdict. The six women and five men who will ultimately rule on how the two British citizens of the Paris crash died on August 31st 1997 were sent out shortly before 12pm on Wednesday morning, exactly six months since the exhaustive proceedings began at the High Court in London. The jurors left Court 73 armed with large files of documents, the result of what has been an unprecedented inquest into the death of a royal (although Diana was divorced at the time of her death she was nevertheless still the mother of a future king and his brother). 
The coroner has already laid out the options open to the jury: two options of manslaughter – either caused by the actions of the paparazzi as they chased the car or by the actions of the driver, Henri Paul – an accident or unexplained. The jury have been told that they cannot return an open verdict purely because they can’t come to agreement amongst themselves. 
These include the theory that Diana was murdered by MI6 on the orders of her former father-in-law, Prince Philip.
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