Diana's Death: Police Passed New Information

Brown Bomber

New information that alleges Princess Diana was murdered has been passed to Scotland Yard through military sources, according to the Metropolitan Police.
The information, thought to include the allegation that the Princess of Wales, Dodi al Fayed and their driver were killed by a member of the British military, will be assessed by officers from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command.


It was passed to the police by the former parents-in-law of a former soldier, according to Sky sources.
http://news.sky.com/story/1129902/dianas-death-police-passed-new-information


If true I find it strange that this would be in the news at all, least of all from Rupert Murdoch

claypigeon777

Henri Paul was over the alcohol limit, he was driving over the speed limit in the tunnel and he struck a slower moving Fiat Uno and then crashed into a pillar because there was no guardrail in the tunnel. Diana died because she was not wearing a seat belt and was flung around the car resulting in the internal injuries that killed her.
Because it soon became clear what caused the accident it was probably thought best to spare the innocent driver of the Uno publicity and claim that the Fiat Uno was never found.
A Parisian named Le Van Thanh who repainted his white Fiat Uno red has been fingered in the press as the driver of the second car.

porsche959

Diana's 'dynamite' diaries

Video tapes featuring the Princess of Wales talking frankly about the most intimate areas of her life are at the centre of a bitter legal battle.
The 'dynamite' diaries were discovered two years ago when detectives raided the house of her former butler, Paul Burrell, and are being held by Scotland Yard.
Now the man who made them - the princess's former voice coach Peter Settelen - is demanding their return.
He claims to own the copyright on the videos and says he will sue unless seven three-hour tapes found in Mr Burrell's loft are handed over.
Mr Settelen in turn faces a counter-action by the Spencer family, who are trying to acquire them as executors of Diana's will.
Although it publicly denies any knowledge of the tapes, St James's Palace is said to be terrified they could be made public and is desperate to see them destroyed.
In all, 16 tapes were made of the princess describing her failed marriage and treatment at the hands of the Royal Family. They were recorded by Mr Settelen during the early 1990s at Kensington Palace, when the Princess employed him as her ' personal communications adviser' to help improve her public speaking.
While seven were passed on to Mr Burrell, the whereabouts of the other nine are unknown. Some suggest that, following Diana's death, Prince Charles ordered his right-hand man Michael Fawcett to burn them in the gardens at Highgrove.
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The existence of the tapes was first highlighted by the Daily Mail in November last year.
We were told they had been seen by only a handful of people - including Crown Prosecution Service lawyers and one of Scotland Yard's highest ranking detectives - owing to their 'sensational' content and are kept in a safe deposit box at an undisclosed location.
But we were led to understand they featured the princess, looking pale and drawn, calmly presenting her side of the story of her marriage break-up - including how Charles betrayed her with Camilla Parker Bowles.
According to the Sunday Mirror yesterday, Diana also complains of her former husband's 'unhealthy relationship' with Fawcett, who last week resigned as his personal consultant following the Peat report into the 'gifts for cash' scandal.
The newspaper, whose source claims to have seen some of the video footage, says the princess tells how she felt threatened by the friendship between the two men.
And she recalls an incident when they appeared 'uncomfortable and uneasy' after being disturbed together in one of Charles's private rooms.
'He is too close to Fawcett,' she says. 'What can one do when your husband is in an unhealthy relationship with a servant?'
The newspaper claims she also launches into a bitter tirade against the prince and Camilla.
'I feel completely isolated,' she says. 'Charles confides more in Fawcett than he does with me. The whole situation is completely impossible.'
Of her battles with Charles over their sons William and Harry, she accuses him of wanting to take them over but adds: 'I want them to meet ordinary people. I want them in the real world.'
The princess also apparently refers to the allegations by former valet George Smith that he was raped by a member of Charles's household.
Diana, claims the newspaper, says she understood that Mr Smith was having consensual sex with the man concerned but the situation 'got out of hand' and he was raped.
'It must have been awful for him,' she adds.
In another segment, Diana breaks into tears as she talks about her feelings of isolation and accuses the Royal Family of being 'trapped in the Dark Ages'.
And she says palace staff - led by Fawcett -'look down their noses' at her.
'It's just awful,' she sobs. 'I am sure Fawcett is behind it. He has far too much influence.'
Given the nature of the comments, it is unsurprising that one source describes the tapes as 'dynamite', adding: 'They are hugely embarrassing to the prince and very humiliating for the whole Royal Family.'
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It is for that reason, the Mail can reveal, that they were not cited as prosecution evidence during the Burrell trial for theft last year.
Mr Settelen, a former Coronation Street actor, first tried to recover them after the princess's death in 1997.
He apparently received a letter from Diana's then private secretary, Michael Gibbins, dated October 20, 1997, in which he said he had spoken to Mr Burrell who 'had been unable to trace them'.
Three years later police discovered seven in his house.
On March 23, 2001, police are reported to have taken a detailed statement from Mr Settelen about the circumstances in which he made the videos and Paul Burrell's failure to hand them over.
At a meeting with Prince Charles and officials representing the Queen, the Crown Prosecution Service promised that the judge could ban the defence from referring to certain sensitive items taken from Mr Burrell's house - including the videos.
When Mr Settelen asked the Yard to return the tapes several months before the trial started, it refused to hand them over, saying that their ownership was in dispute.
Whether such ownership was being contested by the Spencers, St James's Palace - or even Paul Burrell himself - is unclear.
What 51- year- old Mr Settelen intends to do with the tapes if he gets them back is also debatable, although friends describe him as a 'quiet and sensitive' man who regards the tapes as private and is deeply distressed by what has happened.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-172169/Dianas-dynamite-diaries.html

[SIZE=+1]Handwriting expert says Diana murder prediction letter is NOT a forgery[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]

[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]London Times[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]

DIANA, Princess of Wales, predicted her own death in a car crash ten months before it happened, newly published correspondence showed yesterday.

In a comment that is certain to fuel wild conspiracy theories, the Princess wrote that she was sure that an individual — thought to have been a serving police officer — was “planning” the accident.

Diana wrote that she suspected that someone was plotting to sabotage the brakes of her car in order to “make the path clear” for the Prince of Wales to remarry.

The letter is said to have been written to her butler, Paul Burrell, and was reproduced in yesterday’s Daily Mirror after the name of the individual suspected by the Princess had been blacked out.

The authenticity of the letter, said to have been written in October 1996, was not seriously questioned yesterday by a handwriting expert commissioned by The Times, who said that it was probably not a forgery.

It was unclear last night why Mr Burrell, 45, failed to make the letter available to the French judge who investigated the death of Diana and Dodi Fayed in a car crash in a Paris road tunnel in August 1997.

Mr Burrell was in the United States promoting a book which is to be published next week and which is being serialised in the Mirror. He was not available for comment.

In the letter, Diana expresses her “longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high”.

She goes on to claim that “this particular phase in my life is the most dangerous”, and adds that an individual “is planning ‘an accident’ in my car. Brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry”.

The letter was written at a time when the Princess was “signalling her return to the public eye”, as one tabloid newspaper reported, with a new hairstyle and a series of well-publicised engagements including a visit to Harrods with a sick child and a trip to Italy to collect a humanitarian award.

Her marriage had ended in divorce less than two months earlier. Although the letter may shed no light on the cause of her death, it does offer some insights into her state of mind.

She wrote that she had been “battered, bruised and abused for 15 years”, and complained that the Prince of Wales had put her through hell.

“Thank you, Charles, for putting me through such hell and for giving me the opportunity to learn from the cruel things you have done to me,” she wrote. “I have gone forward fast.”

At one point she added: “I am weary of the battles, but I will never surrender. I am strong inside and maybe that is a problem for my enemies.”

The Mirror is thought to have been offered the letter with the name of the individual already blacked out, and is not thought to have seen all four pages.

Friends of the Princess’s family said last night that they doubted that it had been sent to Mr Burrell. One said: “The feeling among her friends is that it is inconceivable that Diana would send Burrell a letter of that nature. How much is he making out of his latest disclosure? It’s not very nice for William and Harry, is it?”

Aides of the Prince of Wales — who was yesterday at Birkhall, on the Queen’s Balmoral estate, with Camilla Parker Bowles — conceded that the latest wave of headlines would be hugely damaging.

One said: “It’s the last thing we need. It will fuel the conspiracy theories. While we know, and Burrell knows, that they are garbage, the existence of the letter is a terribly revealing insight into the state of mind of the Princess.”

Mr Burrell stood trial at the Old Bailey last year accused of three charges of the theft of items that once belonged to the Princess.

The house in Cheshire that he shares with his wife, Maria, and their two sons had been searched 18 months earlier by police officers who said they were looking for “the Crown Jewels” — thought to have been a reference to potentially damaging letters and tape recordings that the Princess had possessed.

The case collapsed shortly before Mr Burrell had been due to give evidence after the intervention of the Queen, who disclosed to the Prince of Wales that she had talked to the butler shortly after Diana’s death about possessions that he was looking after.

While it was not clear why Mr Burrell had not revealed the existence of the letter before now, it is clear that its publication will encourage those who have long considered Diana’s death to have been suspicious, and who have never accepted the conclusion of the two-year French inquiry.

Judge Hervé Stephan ruled that the accident was caused by the alcohol and drugs consumed by Mr Fayed’s driver, Henri Paul, and by his excessive speed.

Mohamed Al Fayed, father of Dodi, called on the Prime Minister yesterday to launch a public inquiry into the incident. “This confirms the suspicions I have so often voiced in public and which have thus far been ignored,” he said in a statement.

“I am disappointed that it has taken Burrell six years to reveal this extraordinary correspondence, and it raises questions as to what other important secrets he may be harbouring.”

Mr Fayed said he believed that Mr Burrell may have withheld this vital evidence after being put under pressure by the Royal Household.

He went on: “In what must now be seen as a cynical attempt to silence him, Paul Burrell was prosecuted in the criminal courts but this bungled move has simply served to highlight the involvement of the Royal Household in the strange circumstances surrounding Diana’s death.

“The Prime Minister must now accept that the time is right for a full public inquiry. Further delay will look as though he is colluding in a cover-up and the people of this country will not tolerate that.”

Solicitors for Trevor Rees Jones, the bodyguard who survived the accident, said: “He’s not interested in commenting on the crash now. He really just wants to be left alone.”

Publication of the letter will increase pressure on Michael Burgess, the coroner who has yet to hold an inquest into the death of Diana or Mr Fayed more than six years after their deaths.

After the death of Helen Smith, a 23-year-old nurse whose body was found at the foot of a block of flats in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in May 1979, the Court of Appeal ruled that coroners must hold inquests on the unnatural deaths of Britons overseas.

The ruling means that coroners must open an inquest into any “violent or unnatural death or sudden death of unknown cause wherever the death occurred”, once the body is returned to his or her jurisdiction. As the Surrey Coroner, Mr Burgess is expected to hold an inquest on Dodi Fayed because he was buried in the county. He is also Coroner to the Royal Household, which means that he must also hold an inquest on the Princess.

Shortly after the pair died with M Paul in the Pont d’Alma tunnel on August 31, 1997, Mr Burgess said that he believed that an inquest would be a “a waste of time and public money”.

This year, a spokesman for Mr Burgess said an announcement on the date for the inquests would be made within days. Hours later the statement was withdrawn on Mr Burgess’s instructions.

“In time, as the law requires, there will be inquests into the deaths of both Dodi Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales,” he said. He added, however, that it would be premature to say when the inquests would be held.

Mr Burgess was not available yesterday.[/SIZE]

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/211003noforgery.html

endacl

I hear the new prince won't be given a soother.

Apparently it isn't safe for members of the royal family to ... *ahem*...














... suck on a dodi...

Laois_Man

Its not as if Scotland Yard will actually be allowed to announce it if they did discover that the British army, MI6 or whoever actually murdered her. So its a waste of time!

Zarak12

If Diana knew she was going to be killed in a car crash surely she would have worn a seat belt!

BloodBath

Mr Burrell was in the United States promoting a book which is to be published next week and which is being serialised in the Mirror. He was not available for comment.

I think that pretty much sums up the authenticity of the letter.

Oracle

Zarak12 wrote: »

If Diana knew she was going to be killed in a car crash surely she would have worn a seat belt!

I'm not sure about that, she probably wouldn't have been expecting to be killed, while on a romantic getaway with Al Fayed.

Zarak12

Oracle wrote: »

I'm not sure about that, she probably wouldn't have been expecting to be killed, while on a romantic getaway with Al Fayed.

In order for this conspiracy theory to work Diana needed to not be wearing a seat belt, her driver to be over the limit, and for 20 or so paps to chase the car.

This is not the recipe for a fool proof plan.

Laois_Man

Zarak12 wrote: »

In order for this conspiracy theory to work Diana needed to not be wearing a seat belt, her driver to be over

claypigeon777

Laois_Man wrote: »

Its not as if Scotland Yard will actually be allowed to announce it if they did discover that the British army, MI6 or whoever actually murdered her. So its a waste of time!

John Stevens investigated the case thoroughly.

The conspiracy theories are utterly laughable.

It was a straight forward accident. The driver was over the alcohol limit and the speed limit, clipped a Fiat Uno and hit a pillar in the tunnel.

You've seen the Mitchell and Webb spoof of the Diana conspiracy theories haven't you?

enno99

Brown Bomber wrote: »

If true I find it strange that this would be in the news at all, least of all from Rupert Murdoch

Very strange alright that this surfaced at all
I wonder what they are trying to distract people from ?

How are all the paedophile investigations going not much arrests happening except the odd entertainer here and there ?

enno99

Zarak12 wrote: »

In order for this conspiracy theory to work Diana needed to not be wearing a seat belt, her driver to be over the limit, and for 20 or so paps to chase the car.

This is not the recipe for a fool proof plan.

Secret service spooks that have overthrown governments and murdered untold people

Couldent if they wanted to

Tamper with a seat belt

Spike a drink

As for the last bit probably the most hounded(by paps) person on the planet at the time

Bit of a tall order alright :rolleyes:

Oracle

This story is all over the Daily Mail as well, that isn't a Murdoch paper: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396208/Princess-Diana-MURDERED-British-soldier-Police-assessing-credibility-new-claim.html

porsche959

enno99 wrote: »

How are all the paedophile investigations going not much arrests happening except the odd entertainer here and there ?

I think you're on the ball here.

Brown Bomber

enno99 wrote: »

Very strange alright that this surfaced at all
I wonder what they are trying to distract people from ?

How are all the paedophile investigations going not much arrests happening except the odd entertainer here and there ?

Same week as the area 51 stuff as well ... :eek::D

degrassinoel

I'm surprised that none of you picked up on the new Diana movie being released a few weeks from now.
This place really has gone down-hill

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758595/

publicity stunt!

Brown Bomber

degrassinoel wrote: »

I'm surprised that none of you picked up on the new Diana movie being released a few weeks from now.
This place really has gone down-hill

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758595/

publicity stunt!

And lets not forget SAS >>> "The Queen, however, remains the "ultimate authority" of the military, with officers and personnel swearing allegiance only to the monarch.[4]"

Zarak12

Brown Bomber wrote: »

And lets not forget SAS >>> "The Queen, however, remains the "ultimate authority" of the military, with officers and personnel swearing allegiance only to the monarch.[4]"

That doesn't mean the SAS would murder a innocent just because the Queen told them to unless you can provide evidence they would.