Diana conspiracy possible despite verdict: Fayed

LONDON - Harrods store owner Mohamed Al Fayed still thinks British security services could have been involved in the deaths of his son Dodi and Princess Diana in a Paris car crash despite the verdict of an inquest jury.
But former bodyguard Trevor Rees, sole survivor of the 1997 crash, said he agrees with the verdict that they were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing them.
“It is possible that MI6 (Britain’s overseas Secret Intelligence Service) were involved,” al-Fayed’s spokeswoman Katharine Witty told the BBC on Tuesday, a day after the inquest verdict was announced.
“We are still saying that it’s possible but whether ... we can do anything about that remains to be seen,” she said. “He is just going to reflect on the full ramifications of the verdict.”
Lord Justice Scott Baker said there was “not a shred of evidence” to support al-Fayed’s allegation that Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip, Diana’s former father-in-law, had ordered British security services to kill her and stop her marrying a Muslim and having his baby.
PRINCES ACCEPT VERDICT
After the verdicts on Monday, the Egyptian-born owner of the luxury Harrods store said in a statement: “I’m not the only person who said they were murdered. Diana predicted that she would be murdered and how it would happen. So I am disappointed.”
He insisted that the queen and her husband should have been called as witnesses. “No one should be above the law.”
“I have always believed that Prince Philip and the queen hold valuable evidence that only they know,” he said.
In stark contrast, Trevor Rees echoed Diana’s sons Princes William and Harry in accepting the jury’s ruling and trying finally to put the tragedy behind them.
Rees, who suffered horrific facial injuries in the crash in a Paris road tunnel but survived because he was wearing a seat belt, said: “I hope that this now represents a point from which everyone involved can move on.”
In their statement welcoming the verdict, William and Harry said: “We are particularly grateful to Trevor Rees and to others who came forward to give evidence—in many cases reawakening their painful and personal memories.”