Report Finds No Plot To Murder Diana

Official Inquiry By U.K. Law Enforcement Dismisses Claims Of Murder And Conspiracy

(CBS/AP)  A British police inquiry released Thursday concluded that the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend in a 1997 Paris car crash were a "tragic accident" and that allegations of murder are unfounded.

The report also said Diana was not pregnant, that she was not engaged to marry Dodi Fayed, and that their chauffeur was drunk and driving at more than 60 mph — twice the speed limit — when their car crashed while being chased by photographers.

The inquiry, which largely confirmed previous findings by French investigators, also said there was no reason to suspect the involvement of the royal family in the death of Prince Charles' former wife.

"Our conclusion is that, on all the evidence available at this time, there was no conspiracy to murder any of the occupants of the car. This was a tragic accident," said Lord John Stevens, former chief of the Metropolitan Police, who led the investigation of the deaths of Diana, 36, and Fayed, 42.

"There was no conspiracy, and no cover-up," Stevens added.

The couple was killed along with chauffeur Henri Paul when their Mercedes crashed in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997, while being chased by media photographers. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was seriously injured.

Paul was drunk, with a blood-alcohol level twice the British legal limit, and driving at twice the local speed limit before the crash, Stevens said.

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"We can say with certainty that the car hit the curb just before the 13th pillar of the central reservation in the Alma underpass, at a speed of 61 to 63 miles per hour," Stevens said. "Nothing in the very rapid sequence of events we have reconstructed supports the allegation of conspiracy to murder."

CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar says Stevens' report does imply that the photographers present that night did share some of the blame for the accident.

Stevens said the photographers had prompted Diana and Fayed to change travel plans before their death.

The French courts acquitted nine photographers of manslaughter, but this result may re-open questions about exactly what role they did play that night, MacVicar says.

Fayed's father, Mohammed al Fayed, rejected the report, calling it "garbage."

He has alleged that the couple was killed as a result of a plot by the establishment, including British intelligence agencies and Prince Philip, her former father-in-law.

"I am certain, 100 percent, that a leading member of the royal family have planned that and the whole plot, being executed, in his order with the help of members of MI6," al Fayed, owner of Harrods department store, said at a news conference after the report was released.

"I am the father who lost his son and close friend, Princess Diana. Nobody have any right just to predict and spreading rumor, displaying things which is not completely real," al Fayed said, referring to Stevens.

Al Fayed said Diana "conveyed to me all her suffering, all the devastation of threats she have in her life in the last 20 years she was living in the royal family environment."

Contradicting long-standing rumors, family and friends denied in interviews that Diana was about to marry Fayed, and Diana was not pregnant, Stevens said.

"From the evidence of her close friends and associates, she was not engaged and not about to get engaged," Stevens said.

[gaye5]

Shadow403, what an excellent message, thanks for your common sense...

[gaye5]

Why on earth would we believe any report on Diana's death, regardless of which way it went. The powers to be and the media have proven that they are far from truthful on most things, this is why I read a numerous number of media outlets like 'Honest Reporting', and Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
where we see things that most media outlets wont tell us.. or don't want to tell us... My husband and most of his colleagues don't bother to get papers now because of the media bias, and instead of checking out facts they all seem to copy each other.. of course it is easier to get the news on the net as one can surf all papers in the hopes of getting a better view,, hmmm...

[exusmcsgt]

What amazes me about all this is the fascination with Diana Spencer. She was a baby-sitter who married a prince, true enough.

That said, she was also a spoiled tart and adultress who somehow, managed to achieve goddess status with some. Amazing.......

[marxgrl-2009]

Well put jonw1115!!!!

[kcarcel]

They Killed her off because she knew the truth
come and kill me like i care your evil and corrupt but never forget what goes round comes round give the people what they deserve Freedom for all forgiveness

[jonw1115]

Hmmm....High speed + alchohol = 3 untimely deaths. It didn't take almost 10 years to figure this out so why are we reading about it in 2006? Diana was a great woman, can't we just let her RIP?

[agelmers]

Why continue to investigate? For the same reason Americans continue to talk about "Who shot JFK". Some people are conspiracy nuts, and some people cannot accept that the cause of such great loss can be so simple.

[entropicfood]

Hi.

This is not news.

[stezzer]

The French told us exactly the same thing years ago.

Why on earth have we Brits spent so much money on this inquiry?

We have squandered millions trying to satisfy weird conspiracy theorists, who wont believe the conclusion of this report anyway.

[amazedd]

Elementary, My Dear Watson!

[maiingan]

More air time and column inches should be given to the fact that Princess Diana didn't have her seat belt on, and often didn't use it. Professional opinions is that she's probably be alive and in one piece had she used it. Most of us will never have to fight off paparazzi as the passenger of a drunk driver. But we are allowed, as drivers, to park the car if our front-seat passengers refuse to belt up. I don't know the laws in Europe, but unless slavery is legal, Diana's drivers/pilots could have quit on the spot when she wouldn't use her seat belt.

[amazedd]

The paparazzi did it!

[grumpas]

When someone dies the conspiracy theories always come crawling out of the woodwork! It was the same way with Marilyn Monroe, JFK and Bobby Kennedy! It all get's very tiresome! It's something no one is ever going to be able to prove! So, why waste your time on it???? There are more important things to do with your life!

[shadow403]

It very sad when one dies so young, it is hard for the mind to comprehend a tragedy such as this magnitude. Diana was a very beautiful young woman who the world watch mature.So for her to die in this manner will just be hard for most to except.Regardles of reports and who they are conducted by. Regardless of the Royal Family feelings on what Diana was doing or planned to do with Dodi,they would never plan her demise.No one would have been able to determine that she would die in a crash. Diana would never make any decisions that would effect her sons without long concideration. They would always be her first thoughts. Maybe a commitment farther down the road, but not in just a few months. As for the Queen after all these years of reign she has never let her subjects down, and has never forgotten she is Queen for her life time. So when it took her so long to respond to her people I believe she was just being a G-ma not a Queen. I really think Diana's death, so sudden, in this manner, really shocked her and for a few days she was just being a caring Grandmother which is what she should have been at that time when those boys needed her most. She put them before her subjects, and in time respondeded to the people. The only thing I really would like to see is Diana's sons move her to a better burial site befitting their mother, she is still the future Queen Mother with all respect, and her final resting place should be as such. Not at Althorp where she is still being sold for a buck.

[pensacola8-2009]

Mental disease obviously is rampant in the pop forums! When will you Di-groupies ever get coping skills? Her life was a comedy with a trajic ending - end of story. What about yours? Get one! Please get those trajic Prince Di news stories off the headlines and forget. Norman Vincent Peale said the best medicine for a heartache is Good-Old-Fashioned elbow grease. Get down on your knees and scrub the floor and work hard until you forget. If I was Prince Di, I would be hoping writers would be focussing on how I lived, not how I died. This makes a living person sicken closer to death and a dead person haunt a little closer to life!

[inresponse1]

No, this was, in fact, a homicide coordinated by the British government. It is well established the type of heart injury that occurs in this type of high impact frontal collision which injury results in the tearing of the heart muscle and significant internal bleeding. Instruction to the French police to move Diana to the hospital at such a slow rate of speed (under 20 mph) indicates clearly that death of the patient was the intended outcome. The patient cannot be treated in an ambulance, and must be treated with major open heart surgery. Since the French medical establishment would also clearly know that this patient should be moved as quickly as possible to surgery, they were complicit in the homicide. Dode's father clearly is correct in his suspicions--but the homicide was not in the cause of the wreck but in the medical treatment that was withheld most notably for Diana in the moments when it clearly meant her life could be saved or she would die. The long slow trip to the hospital assured the latter.

[elgraz]

Sure what other conclusion would you expect from a Lord John Stevens. Do you think he is going to implicate the British crown and British intelligence(an oxymoron ??? His arse would grass.