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Driver may not have been drunk
Charles Miranda
The
Courier-Mail
Sunday October 07, 2007
EVIDENCE that Diana's driver at the time of her
death was drunk may have been fabricated as significant discrepancies
were found in tests conducted on his body, a London court was
told late yesterday.
It has long been held Henri Paul was drunk when he got behind
the wheel and sped through the Paris underpass and misjudged the
road.
But the High Court inquest into Diana's death has heard there
was differing evidence and "discrepancies" in the official
findings and witness statements on the 41-year-old driver.
"There is a major issue over whether or not he was unfit
to drive through drink or drugs but also whether evidence has
been fabricated or made up to suggest that he was drunk when,
in truth, he was not," the coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker
said.
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"You may conclude that there are some unsatisfactory features
about aspects of the sampling and recording procedures. Some of
the results are puzzling."
One issue is a high reading of carbon monoxide found in one blood
sample taken from Paul. Such a level would have rendered a person
unable to function yet witnesses never reported the French driver
appearing unwell.
The coroner instructed the jury to consider whether the sample
was contaminated or the sample could have come from elsewhere
and not the driver.
The jury also heard one claim that Paul – whose parents
were in court yesterday – was paid by M16 to report on the
movements of the pair. A wad of cash was found in his pocket at
the time of the crash.
Agents for the British secret service were in Paris at the time
of the crash but were involved in a counter-terrorism operation
and not tracking Diana or her millionaire boyfriend Dodi Fayed,
the court has been told
Dodi's father Mohamed Al-Fayed has alleged the agents were in
Paris to co-ordinate the assassination of the pair at the behest
of the Duke of Edinburgh who feared a potential marriage would
humiliate the royals.
But Lord Justice Baker revealed: "Their role consisted of
liaison work with the French authorities in respect of such matters
as counter terrorism.
"In other words, it is claimed they had other and bigger
fish to fry. They were not concerned with the movements of dignitaries."
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