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Diana report demolishes conspiracy theories
Daily Telegraph Link
Daily Telegraph Link
The long-awaited report into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales has systematically demolished every conspiracy theory surrounding the crash, concluding that it was an accident caused by the driver who was drunk and driving too fast when he lost control of the car.
The result of the two-year Operation Paget investigation by Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, which will be published on Thursday, is a devastating rebuff to Mohammed Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the crash.
The 400-page report takes apart Mr Fayed's claim that the British secret service murdered the princess because she was pregnant with Dodi's child. Henri Paul, the chauffeur, while not "blind drunk" was more than three times over the French drink-drive limit, had traces of tranquilliser drugs in his body, and was driving at up to 100 mph.
Metropolitan Police officers used advanced computer technology to reconstruct the crash scene and examined the Mercedes in painstaking detail. The team took new forensic tests on tiny droplets of the princess's blood from the back seat of the car which were found not to have the hormone levels of a pregnant woman.