What Really Happened On The Night Of Diana & Dodi's Crash? | Diana: The Inquest | Real Royalty

this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] the mystery of how Princess Diana died has fascinated the world for more than a decade was she the victim of an accident or something more sinister this is the question a British jury of Six Women and five men must decide the answer this week three coaches carrying the coroner and his jury went to Paris to visit the alma tunnel the place where the car carrying Princess Diana and Dodie Fayed crashed it is now 10 years since we first saw these shocking images the wrecked Mercedes the mourners who came to pay their respects in Paris the tragic spectacle of the funeral in London ten years on the British inquest finally opened into the deaths of Diana and Dodie it will cost some 10 million pounds and last six months from the outset the coroner has been unusually open releasing much unseen CCTV footage of Diana's last 12 hours it's now possible to tell the story of that night frame by frame the images reveal small details such as Dodie and Diana holding hands for almost eight minutes before they got into their car I think the footage that's been released by the car and is actually very compelling because we get a second by second almost take on what was happening to Diana just before she died and there's in that way it's quite haunting most haunting is what might be the last of Diana's Smiles that any camera captured [Music] the coroner produced a list of 20 likely issues that the jury must consider they range from whether Diana was pregnant to whether Ori Paul was drunk to the role of the paparazzi and letters to Diana from Prince Philip William and Harry have said they want the inquest to be transparent and to um and to be as quick as possible uh well I think if by transparent they mean thorough there's no doubt that um the coroner intends to be thorough we've seen that already and as for Speed I think it would be a shame if thoroughness was sacrificed for Speed I think that we've waited this long for it it might as well take as long as it has to take particularly if at the end um enough people are satisfied that it has reached the truth two years after the crash the French inquiry headed by judge Elway Stefan blamed the driver of the Mercedes only Paul and said he was drunk in Britain a coroner was appointed but died before he started the inquest the second coroner asked Britain's most senior policeman Lord Stevens to investigate in December 2006 he reported on the evidence available now there was no conspiracy to murder any occupants of that car a few weeks after the report the second coroner resigned a third coroner lady Butler Sloss was then appointed but as a family court judge she had a problem with the process and there was a suggestion at the outset that lady bought the Stars was not going to have jurors and she was not going to hear it in public now that would have been appalling I think and that would have added to the conspiracy theories when the court of appeal insisted on a jury lady Butler's loss resigned saying she did not have the necessary experience of working with juries last week the fourth coroner law Justice Scott Baker finally opened the inquest legally required when any British citizen dies abroad in unusual circumstances I am said then what happened to them I know they've been mad that and I am sure the jury of ordinary people will confirm all my doubts for the last 10 years which I've been fighting to find Justice for my son and Prince you have to ask yourself why are we having this inquest the only reason we're having it is because Al Fayed is Rich and he's been able to manipulate the British legal system which is one of the fairest in the world he's been able to manipulate it to his own ends to bring this circus to town 80 would-be jurors were summoned to the Royal courts of Justice in London and presented with a questionnaire they were asked are you associated with the royal family the al-fired family or the Spencer family have you been employed by MI5 or MI6 have you been involved with investigating or reporting on the circumstances of the deaths of the 80 people who were questioned here 25 were deemed eligible to serve and asked to return here on Tuesday so 55 were disqualified because they were related to those involved worked for MI5 or MI6 or had definite views about the case in court 72 Lord Justice Scott Baker began dramatically you will be in the public eye as knowing Quest Jury has ever been before we all will but you must not let that deter you from approaching the facts dispassionately disregarding anything you hear or have heard outside this courtroom Catherine witty with Skye's Royal correspondent but now works for Muhammad al-fayed she was in court on day one I think there was a section that something big was going to happen on that first day but then the coroner began his opening statement and you could have heard a pin drop because this wasn't just a brief outline of uncontested facts he went straight in to talking about the evidence he went straight into putting across his point of view quite subtly but it was definitely there and I think Muhammad to start with was a little bit surprised certainly our lawyers were but it just shows that even on that first day Diana and her phenomenon and the process around this still has the power to surprise the coroner spoke about a conversation that happened between Frank Klein who's the general manager of the Ritz hotel and Mohamed al-fired only a few moments after the crash and when Muhammad first found out about the news and he alluded to the fact that Muhammad then referred to it as murder and the coroner's own opinion on that was well how did he know it was murder just a few moments afterwards the key images were captured on 31 of the 43 CCTV cameras in Alpha Ed's Ritz hotel in the center of Paris so what do we see we see Diana and Dodie going into a lift she appears to be fairly happy why not no one's disputing they're not in a relationship it's what people in a relationship normally do so they're believing that everything has been arranged they're going to the back of the hotel to leave to go to doda's apartment they have no idea that minutes later of course they're going to be dead oh the 20 likely issues the inquest must consider one has dominated all others whether Omri Paul's ability to drive was impaired through drink or drugs good evening the Paris prosecutor's office disclosed today that the driver of the car in which Princess Diana was fatally injured had an illegal blood alcohol level he said to be more than three times over the French limit than twice the British one of the most intriguing images was shown four years ago on Channel 5. at 11 minutes past 11 auri Paul supposedly three times over the French limit manages to tie both shoelaces he squats switches his balance from right to left foot before standing up unaided he looked pretty sober to me and I think to everybody who was watching that footage so he certainly didn't look somebody who was intoxicated and most definitely he didn't look like somebody who was as drunk as a pig as the newspapers reported in the aftermath of that crash Lord Stevens report said Ari Paul was walking around the hotel apparently functioning normally with no indication he was unsteady but his verdict was that blood samples that were from Ori Paul did have a high alcohol content if the jury are not convinced Henry Paul was too drunk to drive they will challenge all previous judgments the coroner has already alerted them to what is called a major issue whether evidence has been fabricated to suggest Henry Paul was drunk when he was not in the Diana Diane quest one of the 20 issues the coroner has highlighted is whether and if so in what circumstances the Princess of Wales feared for her life [Music] 96 in a letter to her Butler Princess Diana expressed the fear that she would die in a car crash and it wouldn't be an accident I am sitting here at my desk today in October longing for someone to hug me and encouraged me to keep strong and hold my head up high this particular phase in my life is the most dangerous X is planning an accident in my car break failure and serious head injury and at the inquest the coroner read out a note of a conversation Diana had in 1995 with her solicitor the late Lord mishcon I told hrh that if she really believed her life was being threatened security measures including relating to her car must be increased I frankly could not believe that what I was hearing could be credible as to this alleged conspiracy and sought a private word with Commander Jefferson who surprisingly said he himself half believed in the accuracy of what hrh had said it gives you some idea actually of how sane she was if I tell you that she reacted to some of the the rumors that were started about her own mental health with humor I can remember going to uh a fundraising lunch that she was speaking at and picking up something that had been in that morning's headlines she said I hope that I'll be allowed to get to the end of my speech before the men in white coats come to take me away this of course produced lots of laughter I can honestly say as somebody that worked with Diana for as long as I did and prior to that I worked with her two young Sons I saw Diane as a very level-headed individual working under extreme difficulties not least of all because of the public life that she was leading but also within the framework of a very unhappy marriage I never saw any evidence of somebody that was unstable mad or paranoid by July 1997 Diana was out of her unhappy marriage and living a single life Muhammad al-fayed invited Diana and her sons to Santa pay in southern France it was here that her romance with Dodie started three weeks later Diner went back without her children to join the al-fired family on their 12 million pound yacht the Johnny Cowell foreign [Music] The Cruise Diana made very public her new relationship with Dodie alfayed the couple gave great headlines [Music] princess of the Paradox Diana yo-yoed between posing for Stills and pleading for privacy on Saturday the 30th of August Diana Dodie and bodyguard trevoris Jones left the Johnny Cal and arrived at Albia airport in Sardinia there they boarded a private plane it took off for Paris where they were met at the small Berger airport by Paparazzi one was fabris chaseri his pictures caught a moment in history [Music] the first time the four people who would drive in the doomed Mercedes ever met [Music] foreign bye Dodie was close to Ori Paul Deputy head of security at the Ritz Ori Paul was a man with a complicated past and that prompts another of the coroner's key issues for the inquest whether the British or any other Security Services had any involvement in the Collision aripal's closest friend told the Stevens inquiry that Paul was never paid by the security services but he did liaise with them it was consistent with what he told us in 2003 functions [Music] [Music] Lord Stephen said that one of the French secret Services confirmed that Paul was known to them and specifically tasked with inquiries in hotel circles but as for MI6 we spent three weeks mainly in MI6 looking at the records being allowed to go where we wanted to go and examining all of their records in a way that's never been allowed before in this com we found no trace of information coming from honorary Paul we also found no Trace in terms of anything that would add and give evidence which would Aid the theory of conspiracy to murder and those organizations being involved in that on the Saturday or report accompanied Diana and Dodie as they visited the Villa Windsor just outside Paris it had been owned by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor now it belonged to the alphaeeds I think she was aware that she was a potential Duchess of Windsor a sort of loose cannon who they were going to watch very carefully and she was not averse to upsetting them and I think she got enjoyed how much the affair with Dodie would upset everybody back at Buckingham Palace as indeed it did and a bit of in your faceness was in her nature Diana and Dodie then went to another of alphaeed's magnificent properties in Paris the Ritz hotel newly released footage of events recorded here give a remarkable insight into the couple's last hours at 4 35 they walked through the lobby behind them is trevoris Jones a minute later Diana and Dodie come out of the service lift and go to the best Suite in the Ritz the Imperial ten years ago one night here cost 5000 pounds at 5 40 Dodie leaves the hotel Ori Paul opens the door to a Ritz car for him [Music] then Dodie is driven to raposi one of the smartest Jewelers in Paris just the other side of the place Von Dom what follows highlights two key issues for the inquest the circumstances relating to the purchase of the Ring and whether the Princess of Wales and dodial fired were about to announce their engagement Jody spends seven and a half minutes in raposi then comes back to the hotel with a brochure he hears upstairs to Diana in the Imperial Suite Dodie dispatches one of the hotel managers Claude roulet to raposi he's marked by the red spot he returns to the Ritz with a bag inside our two rings he takes them upstairs to Dodie in the Imperial suite and claims Dodie chooses a gold band part of the dismuel we or say yes to me range valued at 130 000 pounds roulet is seen putting the ring in the Ritz safety deposit box and signing for it there is a debate as to whether it was really an engagement ring and there's also debate about the Jeweler Albert riposhi's version of events when questioned by Lord Stephen's inquiry team all matters for the jury to consider just before seven o'clock Dodie and Diana leave the hotel [Music] Ori Paul sees the car off at the rear exit and then goes off duty for the weekend or so he thinks neither the French police nor Lord Stevens nor MI6 nor the French secret Services have managed in more than 10 years to solve one of the coroner's other key issues Henry Paul's movements between 7 and 10 p.m on 30th of August 1997. meanwhile Dodie and Diana went to Dodie's apartment at one Rua San Jose near the chandelier they drank champagne Dodie booked a table at a smart Parisian Restaurant for 9 30 but at 9 40 he canceled because there was a large crowd outside so they decided to return to the Ritz for dinner where he said he'd be able to relax the CCTV says they came into the Ritz at about 10 to 10. Dodie appears to look tense as it was said the presence of the paparazzi had bothered him because the couple have come back unexpectedly Ori Paul is suddenly summoned back and arrives in his mini outside the hotel there's a red dot here to Mark him out this outside camera said it's 9 minutes past 10. when he walks in the inside camera says it's seven minutes past ten there are small discrepancies in all the camera timings the CCTV footage has actually shown so large and one of the interesting points that was was shown was when Once unreported returned to the hotel we see him very quickly um walking in with this air of authority which he did have and he goes to the bar I mean he's been called back we don't know exactly by who but now he's back at work before that he was off duty doing what we don't know we have that two three hour period we don't know exactly where he went at 10 20 Dodie is seen talking to duty night manager Thierry Roche he later stayed sturdy Outlander plan to leave the hotel and get back to his apartment the plan was confidential but Ari Paul was one of the few who could be told five minutes later Thierry Roche is talking with Henry Paul and another member of Staff Paul then waves to the chauffeur who had driven Dodie and Diana back to the hotel six minutes later on reports to one of the drivers again one of the key uh pointers for me in the release of this CCTV footage has been the role played by Henry Paul and it seems to me that he has a much stronger place in this organization than either Trevor Reese Jones or KES Wingfield now there's an answer there there was well Henry Paul was a seasoned member of the fired establishment he'd been at the Ritz for many many years and he was halfway up this sort of hierarchical ladder at the Ritz and so he had this this relationship he had this contact with Dodie the two security officers on the other hand are way down the bottom end and they're waiting for pieces of information to drop off on report at 10 34 only Paul makes the first of what will be five trips out of the hotel and into the place Von Dom where he spends seven minutes talking with the paparazzi at 10 43 Ori Paul re-enters the Ritz and goes to the bar to finish his recar and aniseed alcoholic drink one of two he ordered at the Ritz that night at 11 10 only Paul goes out again to the place Von Dom [Music] he goes to talk to the driver of Dodie's Range Rover then he walks towards the paparazzi [Music] some people begin to gather round him two minutes later he's back in the hotel [Music] and this is when he realizes his shoelaces have become undone the cameras show it takes only Paul 44 seconds to tie his shoelaces visitors Mill around and he talks to Hotel staff from here he will go upstairs to join the bodyguards outside the Imperial Suite where Dodie and Diana are Mastermind I was extremely surprised when I saw the bodyguards Wingfield and Reese Jones sitting outside the Imperial suite and I was surprised at the the amount of activity in the ante room outside the suite one reason they were outside the suite was because they were to be briefed on the getaway plan it was eventually decided to use two decoy cars kez Wingfield would leave from the front while to fool the paparazzi trevoris Jones Diana and Dodie would leave from the back with Ori Paul at the wheel Ori Paul went down the stairs and out to talk to the paparazzi again it's now 23 minutes past 11. the plan needs three cars Jody's Range Rover and two identical Mercedes one at the front one at the back the crowd which is now filling the plus bondom and hoping to see Diana has no clue about all these machinations this is how one Australian tourist caught it all [Music] at 10 to midnight our report makes a fourth trip to the place bondom where the CCTV spots from standing in front of the large crowd of onlookers and paparazzi for the coroner this is the Prelude to another key issue whose decision it was that the Princess of Wales and dodial fired should leave from the rear entrance and that Henry Paul should drive the vehicle this is what Muhammad al-fayed told us four years ago didn't call me it was about 12 o'clock he said just I'm going now to the apartment and he told me a lot of Paparazzi I don't know what they do the plus one Dome is full of people I told them please it's so dangerous just stay in a hotel everything is there no need for you to go out you told me I think I will follow your advice why after Dodi assured me that he is not going to go out uh Paul uh Henry Paul gone to him at 12 o'clock after Dodie talking to me and convinced him no problem we're gonna go from the back entrance everything is okay don't worry I know the way and please you know because you have already prepared everything there change to this mind but far from changing Dodie's mind Lord Stevens concluded the decoy car plan had been Dodie's idea all along Lord Stevens reports that Muhammad al-fayed told him that Dodie wanted to go back to his apartment for a romantic reason to give Diana the engagement ring the jury will have to sift through this evidence and decide the truth just after midnight outside the front of the Ritz the crowd are waiting the decoy driver seen here with the beard enters the hotel and passes on report at the same time upstairs the bodyguards check the way Diana and Dodie will leave the hotel by the service lift at the back downstairs Omri Paul has his final meeting with the drivers of the decoy cars four minutes later we see Princess Diana come out of the suite Diana and Dodie chat to The Bodyguard KES Wingfield although there's been some apparent disagreement with the bodyguards over the plan to get away from the Ritz there doesn't appear to be any sign of tension foreign [Music] and as they get ready to go Diana seems to be giggling [Music] she seemed very relaxed I think when she was leaving the uh the Imperial Suite as she went down into the left she's quite jovial quite jokey without everyone concerned no one's seemed particularly tense kez Wingfield has gone to the decoy cars at the front while Diana Dodie Henry Paul and trevoris Jones continue down the corridor towards the service lift [Music] Diana Wags a finger at Dodie she's very playful trevoris Jones is close to Henry Paul and as he testified to Lord Stevens he smelt no drink on the driver's breath he was at work as far as I was concerned and he was behaving in a very sober way that there's nothing in his air in the way he was that uh that that should have said to me that that he was I'd been drinking alcohol if only Paul was drunk then he wasn't driving um that's not just a security professionalism thing that's just common sense at the end of the day and whether that if that spoiled the atmosphere then so be it that's uh that's one of the things one of those things I can categorically say that as far as I was concerned he was Stone Cold Sober Diana and Dodie and the others now waited what is the tradesman's exit for Diana it's a stark contrast to Royal routine and Scotland Yard protection she expected these decisions to be made for like men with their little family expect these decisions and the security to be made like Prime Ministers presidents I've worked with every conceivable Head of State uh in the Western World in my and they all take that guidance that that steer from their security now on this occasion it would appear there wasn't this year there wasn't this advice what we see here suggests just how close Diana and Dodie were that night Diana's right arm is behind her back and their fingers are laced together at one point it looks like Dodie is nuzzling her neck [Music] only Paul goes out to see if their Mercedes has arrived he appears to wave at one of the paparazzi inside Diana and Dodie are still holding hands this lasts for 7 minutes 48 seconds the princess then mocks salutes or report you can see her sense of humor in these images and particularly where staff servants are concerned um she was she she rightly had a had a reputation as being somebody who was easy to work with at 19 minutes past midnight the Mercedes finally arrives at the back of the Ritz Ori Paul trevoris Jones Diana and Dodie file out to the waiting vehicle the princess appears to be shielding her eyes [Music] the car moves off [Music] at the front of the hotel the decoy cars make their move the paparazzi scramble realizing they've been fooled Diana and Dodie with only pole driving now have a head start the chase is on Princess Diana's Final hours were spent in the Ritz hotel in Paris many of her last moments captured on video just released by The Coroner at 20 minutes past midnight the Mercedes with Diana was moving away from the Ritz ahead of the paparazzi [Music] the last thing I remember we got in a vehicle we pulled off and the couple of Paparazzi vehicles that were at the back of the hotel started to follow us [Music] the shortest route from the Ritz to Dodie's flat is along the Sean's Elysee but as the Australian tourist video showed traffic was heavy that night at the plaster La Concord instead of going up the champs-elysees only Paul drives straight on towards the embankment of the sen the Mercedes should now exit right before the alma tunnel as the red line shows Once it goes into the tunnel the Mercedes is heading away from Dodie's flat we now know that the speed the Mercedes was traveling at was between 61 and 63 miles an hour the coroner has said Henry Paul obviously knew Paris so something caused him to vary the obvious route by going into the tunnel the question is why did he go past the exit slip Road just before the underpass was the Mercedes blocked from exiting the slip Road one issue the coroner has highlighted is whether a Fiat Uno or any other vehicle caused or contributed to the Collision the Paris Police found fragments of the rear light of a white-feared Uno in the tunnel had it got in the way of the Mercedes news reports 18 days after the crash made the link the Mercedes Wing mirror was found at this point with traces of another car's paintwork and shards of a Fiat tail light the Mercedes was thrown into the right-hand wall then hurled across into the 13th pillar in the middle of the tunnel the French police examined 4668 vehicles but did not find any Fiat Uno which had been damaged in this way Alpha Ed hired a team of senior retired French policemen and they claimed to have solved the mystery in a field they found this Fiat its tail light had just been replaced and it belonged to a man who had spent the summer photographing Dodie and Diana James ondanson he was one of the most famous paparazzis in the world he had a white Fiat Uno and the inquest has raised as a likely issue whether James orndon saw was in Paris on the night of the Collision he was the subject of a French television program in 2000. Indonesia is Anderson told people he was in the tunnel on the night of the crash Elizabeth dard the widower one of his friends told us five years ago he had claimed he was at the scene [Laughter] Lord Stephen spoke to Elizabeth dard and her daughter Josephine and says they appear to be truthful Witnesses who have nothing to gain by fabricating such a conversation nevertheless Lord Stevens does not believe on donson's story and concludes he was not in Paris on the night of the crash a footnote to all this is that ondanson died later in 2000 after setting fire to himself in his own car in a deserted Woodland Lord Stevens added there is no evidence whatsoever that he was murdered the jury will decide if he played any significant part in the crash still photographs released by The inquest offer an insight into what was going on in the alma tunnel at 32 minutes past midnight Dodie al-fired and Ori Paul were already dead Princess Diana was in a critical condition and being given first aid by Dr Maya a French Doctor Who was driving through the tunnel the pictures address another likely issue whether the actions of the paparazzi caused or contributed to the cause of the Collision these still pictures show the paparazzi Milling around the tunnel although Lord Stephen said some might see their behavior as morally questionable there was no evidence they did anything wrong but the first reaction of the French police was to arrest seven of the paparazzi and keep them in the cells overnight many of their photographs were confiscated and were never given back though every inquiry has found they didn't contribute to the crash the role of the paparazzi will be considered by the jury another issue for them to consider is whether the princess of wales's life would have been saved if she had reached Hospital sooner the ambulance did not go to the nearest hospital but to La Petite so Petrie still a distance of less than three miles it was one hour and 43 minutes after the accident when Diana got to hospital [Music] every inquiry has rejected suggestions that this was part of a conspiracy normal practice in France is for paramedics to try to stabilize and treat victims of the scene by the time Diana got to the operating theater she was in a desperate state the French Minister of Justice and the British Ambassador had arrived at the hospital and heard the news everyone dreaded certificate cardiac interact with the media videos [Music] thank you foreign [Music] way um I think I've written there was a part of me that felt that it was inevitable that um she never did anything by halves it was like being hit with a shovel it was a I don't know I don't know how I felt I think I tried to cry at one stage but I couldn't couldn't make any noise because of the the track he was in um but it was just complete shock it was like like a parachute jump everything just falls out underneath it Lord Stevens in his report for the inquest examined claims that the tunnel had been reopened too swiftly and washed down not helping a forensic examination these images are from 7am the morning after the crash when one journalist went down to the alma tunnel um foreign Lord Stevens recorded the French traffic police view that the westbound carriageway of the tunnel wasn't reopened prematurely the green Vans went into spray and sweep and officially the alma tunnel was open for traffic again by 10 30 that morning the coroner decided it would be useful for the inquest jury to see the alma tunnel for themselves no one can remember another time when an inquest jury went abroad to visit the place where people died the trip had its moments a policeman came off his motorbike the wheels came off the coaches carrying the jury and this was not the only drama of the first week the coroner has told the jury they will have to consider a surprising development this time the manual has to answer the questions is the man who asked the questions on behalf of the inquest Lord Stevens the coroner told the jury there is an apparent discrepancy between what Lord Stevens said to Henry Paul's parents when he met with them in Paris on the 8th of November 2006 and what was said in the operation pageant report a few weeks later foreign team have sensed the importance of the controversy and are demanding answers on the 8th of November 2006 Lord Stevens went to orifold's parents and said don't worry your son won't be found drunk and charging as we know a few weeks later operation Paget was published where he said that oripo was three times over the drink Drive limit and had he been alive he'd be prosecuted with dangerous driving so there are three options to this discrepancy which is recorded in police notes he can't deny that the conversation took place so there are three reasons for this the first is he doesn't know what's in his own report which given that it costs 3.7 million pounds of taxpayers money is pretty scandalous the second option is that he lied or reports the parents which again is shocking well the third option is something happened between 8th November and when the operation pageant report was published to somehow make him change his tune and that's what the inquests have to address we'll have to wait and see what evidence Lord Stevens gives but it is quite um a strange thing for Lord Stevens to have done because in his report he clearly concludes operation Patrick concludes the honorary Paul was drunk the coroner said I anticipate Lord Stevens will give evidence that he was trying to reassure Paul's parents that their son had not been drunk as a pig one of the other issues the coroner highlighted was explosive the question that's always been seen as a major threat to the Royals whether the Princess of Wales was pregnant from the moment she died there had been questions about whether or not she might be carrying a baby through Diana's flowers days and minutes showing them a series of photographs her bump led to much speculation [Music] the coroner told the jury you will also hear evidence that Diana was taking a contraceptive pill it is likely that pregnancy is not a matter that can be proved one way or another in scientific terms in this case but Lord Stevens has no doubts whatsoever the Princess of Wales was not pregnant at the time of her death our conclusions were strengthened by forensic tests carried out on blood recovered from the Mercedes car when we brought it back to this country from the evidence of her close friends and Associates she was not engaged and she was not about to get engaged this is not what Dodie's father believes but it will be a matter for the jury to judge over the next six months the jury will hear many such claims and counter claims inside Court 72 and outside people will Express deep passions and sharp skepticism and she wasn't just a princess she wasn't just some sort of pretty girl who did a bit of Charity on the side and she had an enormous influence this woman and that's one of the reasons I get so cross-bought this inquest is to think that this is what she's being remembered for I just think is the ultimate tragedy for Diana the public certainly I feel and I've having chatted about it with a few of my friends feel that you know she should just be allowed to rest there's something fishy about it for sure but the fact is it's unlikely that we the common people are ever going to know the truth there are family booted Diana out and they stripped her of hrh there is so much rubbish talked about Diana and people dismissed her as mentally unstable it's grossly unfair and her fears have very genuine fears into her safety need to be examined properly in a court of law and that's why we're all here all I'd say is if you do turn up and look at it happen um there is something rather reassuring about seeing the legal process however long it takes however expensive it is however cumbersome it seems to be there is something reassuring about it it's uh um it's certainly given me the sense that once it's over we will be that much nearer the truth I think the inquest will now proceed more slowly I think there'll be a good look at the forensic evidence I don't believe that it will be as dramatic as we've had in the opening uh week or so the coroner said the inquests are expected to last up to six months it will start looking at more periphery stories which will make headlines in the newspapers but won't necessarily prove whether Diner was murdered or or not what they will do is Muddy the waters and leave pop possibly leave the jury open to believe there were questions that are unanswered thank you [Music] the coroner has told the jury how important these proceedings are one of the purposes of these inquests is to investigate the facts thoroughly so that the public suspicion is either dispelled or substantiated we shall be conducting a vigorous and searching inquiry through the evidence so that the true cause of death May if possible be determined once and for all [Music]

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