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BRITISH POLICE HAVE said they have finished examining new information about the 1997 death of Diana, princess of Wales, but had found “no credible evidence” she was murdered.
Scotland Yard police headquarters announced in August it was checking the credibility of recently received information about the deaths of the princess and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, including an allegation that she was murdered by a British military figure.
In a statement this morning, the Metropolitan Police Service said officers had conduced a scoping exercise to decided whether the information provided was sufficient to warrant a re-opening of the criminal investigation.
“Every reasonable line of enquiry was objectively pursued in order to fully evaluate any potential evidence,” it said.
Paris
Diana and Fayed were killed in a car crash in a Paris underpass in the early hours of 31 August, 1997, along with their driver, Henri Paul.
It is understood that the claim a member of elite British army regiment the Special Air Service (SAS) was involved was made by the former parents-in-law of an ex-soldier, based on information he had talked about in the past.
“The final conclusion is that whilst there is a possibility the alleged comments in relation to the SAS’s involvement in the deaths may have been made, there is no credible evidence to support a theory that such claims had any basis in fact,” said the police statement.
“Therefore the MPS are satisfied there is no evidential basis upon which to open any criminal investigation,” it added.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley has provided all involved parties with a summary report of the probe.
Conspiracy theories
Operation Paget was the name of the two-year police inquiry into the numerous conspiracy theories surrounding the crash.
Led by John Stevens, formerly Britain’s top policeman, it concluded in 2006 that all the allegations it assessed were without foundation.
It rejected the murder claims voiced by some, including Fayed’s father, the Egyptian tycoon Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Dodi Fayed, 42, and driver Paul – the deputy head of security at Al-Fayed’s plush Hotel Ritz in Paris – were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The Mercedes-Benz car had smashed into a pillar and spun around.
Diana, 36, the ex-wife of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and the mother of Princes William and Harry, died later in hospital.
Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Al-Fayed family’s protection team, survived.
Seeking to outrun chasing paparazzi photographers, Paul was found to have been speeding. His blood alcohol level was found to have been more than three times over the French limit.
- © AFP 2013 with additional reporting by Michelle Hennessy.
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What a surprise the security services involved in her death find themselves not guilty.
Well who were you expecting to investigate? The Sun?
They were hardly likely to produce a report saying the sas or any other secret military unit did it. It’s very like the widary reports that the brits brough out after Bloody Sunday.
I am not into conspiracy theories but Diana herself said that she thought she’d have an ‘accident’..
There was a chance the future king of England was going to have a Muslim stepfather and siblings.
“One” couldnt gave that now.
Also i think Diana did ruffle a lot of feathers and rightly so. I think she had plenty of dirt still to spill on the Royals.
Pity she died. She’d still be gorgeous and interesting
Sinead, if she thought that she might have an accident why didn’t she wear a seat belt and she wouldn’t have died? The one survivor from the crash was wearing a seat belt, Dodi wasn’t either.
Well she was “put down”. And no matter how much time and money is spent on investigations, does anyone really think that the royal family will be charged and tried for murder? Everyone had their price. And silence was bought. But everyone knows three people were murdered that night.
Troll alert! Troll alert!
Pot kettle Bernard!!!!!
Lord Loverocket “Pot Kettle” as in “That’s the pot calling the kettle black” essentially means someone being a hypocrite by doing what they are criticising the other person of doing.
You can’t just insert comment “Pot kettle” if you disagree with someone.
The original comment was, in my opinion, so unfounded in fact or reality that it had to be made up to elicit a response (that’s called trolling). But reading some of the crackpot comments here I’m now not so sure…some people actually believe these fairy tales!
The modern twist on “Off with her head”
This conspiracy will roll on for years and years, will it ever be seen as just a tragic accident?
No because we all know it was murder!
By whom?
It’s a bit like the shite shinners spout, pure tosh
The orders of the queen don’t you know?? & no I’m not a ‘shinner’ either
@monty. Even if it was an accident, I wouldn’t call it tragic. Very fortunate accident should cover it.
Lol when anyone well known dies it was murder dont ya know.
Sure when Jackie Kennedy remarried do you not think she would be bumped off by secret service? Same here just unqualified people spouting unsupported fairy tales.
Tragic accident
Sean, you remind me Marilyn Monroe was murdered too.
Maybe she was but she did like her drugs so odds are nope.
Has anything in the history of the world since the start of the 1900′s not been a conspiracy?
I bet these are the same absolute morons who think the Titanic was insurance fraud, Hitler is still alive (Possibly as a fisherman in Cork), the Moon Landing was faked for pro-West propaganda, 9/11 was an inside job, Bin Laden’s assasination was faked (because he like totally didnt do 9/11 despite him and Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for it).
Yes, there is absolutley no chance that Diana’s driver was just pissed and crashed the car killing Princess Diana, because when has anyone ever crashed a car drunk?
That Chinese Moon landing is a fake too. The Moon isn’t red!
When did the phrase conspiracy theory come to the fore, about the same time as the internet, why? Because information is power and for the first time in human history the people had the information, not the people in power. Think about it, it ain’t hard.
Derek, daft! Conspiracy theories have been around since mankind evolved a voice box. There was a conspiracy theory that the Emperor Nero was the Anti Christ 2000 years ago. Who shot JFK was decades before the Internet.
Titantic was a couple of years prior to the internet also.
And the circus starts again, will people let the poor woman rest in peace. Maybe give a thought for the pain these things cause her sons.
Just like they found no credible evidence Jimmy Savile was buggering kids!
Just another Warren Commission. No camera working in the tunnel that night, how convenient. Just like we have no camera of the “PLANE” hitting the Pentagon on 9/11. A major Paris tunnel and one of the most protected buildings in the world have no camera when needed.
Yes, Steve. It was a Cruise Missile. Not a plane that hit the Pentagon. And all they had to do, was take down a boeing 737 with 100 passengers, kill them, and destroy every trace of the plane and the bodies and fire a missile at the Pentagon that even though no ome confirms they saw, has to be the only logical explanation.
But luckily people we have people like you who aren’t so easily fooled and you see right through American imperialism.
When there is a REAL 9/11 enquiry, I propose you are appointed to lead it. We need creative thinkers like you to give us a good story to read.
Ha Ha Pat….hardly being sarcastic are we. For the record I don’t believe everything is a cover up. But there are some things I would like answers to and more proof. Just because me or someone else questions the official line we are all deemed conspiracy nuts. Ok thats fine, it’s not like governments ever lie to their people.
Steve, I am a Government plant on social media. I am paid $250,000 a year to come onto places like this and troll conspiracy theory.
any chance of a job ;p ?
No. My money.
The driver was drunk and driving too fast. End of. Full stop.
There are no conspiracies. No one was “murdered”.
Yet the nutters and tin foil hat brigade will persist with their stories & BS.
Open your eyes Bernard! WAKE UP!!
“Wake up”? To what? Any theory that tries to “prove” anything other than there was a car crash due to alcohol and speed is ridiculous. Not only that but has been resoundingly disproved by numerous enquiries, investigations and tribunals.
Conspiracy theories are fun sometimes, but you need a nugget of truth for them to be viable. Like there was a second shooter in Dallas. There’s none here.
Move on.
She was put down like an unwanted pet when she had outlived her usefulness or rocked the royal boat too much. So, who gives a shirt. ? Move on..
That’s some top top trolling right there! Good work
The police should have asked The Journal commentators. Apparently “Because I think so” is all the evidence you need.
Farcical Babble.
And they ALMOST got away with it!!!
Lizard head had her killed
Case closed, please Allah
The way described by that idiot who has now been discredited would require 50+ people to know. The assassination team with advance and rear guards, assassins themselves (12), planners at Hereford, in Londonderry, people en and decoding messages, etc.
Does no one think that one of those would have turned whistle blower by now.
No, because they were all paid off.
$14trillion each. Tax free. Cash.
For Londonderry read London. Auto correct again!
whatever happened and I believe she was murdered but god knows the royals have enough money to buy camiila a f..king face lift.she is one ugly woman
Ok. Lads. Drunk driver, no seatbelts, excessive speed. Accident. Can we please drop this and let the woman, flawed as she was, rest in peace?
What colour is the boathouse at Hereford?
And????
It was obviously the mossad in conjunction with the cigarette smoking man
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