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LondonNet News Archive:
Death of the Princess
Earlier articles from our
news archive (1997+)
Following Diana's sudden death
in Paris, August 31, 1997 many doubts have surrounded the official
story of the paparazzi chasing a drunk driver at speed toward
an inevitable and tragic accident. Below you will find a catalogue
of articles culled from LondonNet's newsdesk that deal with the
developing alternative theories of the crash, ranging from "no-accident"
to "full blown conspiracy".
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21/7/99
Royalist Threat to Break
Denise Van Outen's Legs
- Sexy Star receives warning
after she flashes her boobs at Prince Charles
- Diana conspiracy theorists take heart as royalist hit squad
comes out of the shadows
SEXY TV STAR Denise Van Outen
has received a letter from a royalist group warning her that
she faces 'total disablement'.
Outen received the threat following
her antics earlier this month when she flashed her breasts at
Prince Charles at a charity do. The former Big Breakfast presenter
felt snubbed after being left out of a line up to meet the heir
to the throne. Outen had previously annoyed Buckingham Palace
by admitting to stealing a memento during an earlier visit there.
The garbled threat came from
a new Royalist terror group called 'Justice'.They promised to
'break her legs' and leave her facing 'total disablement' for
life.
"We do not believe in
trial or judgment. We are known by certain powers who can do
nothing to cease our operation because basically they appreciate
what we are doing." claimed the group in their letter.
Conspiracy theorists convinced
that Diana, Princess of Wales, was the victim of a royalist hit
squad will no doubt see this news as proof that elements of the
establishment are out to get republicans. They will point to
the post mark on the hate letter; Slough, Berkshire. Just a stone's
throw away from Windsor Castle.
This is London. This is summer.
Welcome to the silly season.
21/12/99
Hamilton Loses '"Cash
for Questions" Libel Case
- "Xmas has come early" claims victorious Al Fayed
FORMER Tory MP Neil Hamilton
has sensationally lost his libel case against Harrod's boss Mohamed
Al Fayed.
Hamilton had claimed Fayed
libelled him by saying that as an MP he accepted cash and other
gifts in return for asking questions in Parliament. Fayed claimed
in a TV documentary that Hamilton had accepted envelopes stuffed
with cash. Fayed used his time in the witness box to exercise
legal privilege (immunity) and spent days ranting about the various
conspiracies he believes the UK esatablishement has undertaken
against him, including the 'murder' of his son Dodi and Diana,
Princess of Wales.
The former MP for Tatton, lost
his seat at the election to anti-sleaze candidate Martin Bell.
He now faces huge a legal bill and the prospect of financial
ruin as a result of the jury's verdict.
(19/11/98)
Fatal Gear Shift Killed
Diana
- Crash expert claims driver
Paul put auto-gearbox in neutral moments before shunt
- White Uno not to blame says police boffin Nibodeau
A NEW report by crash investigator
Michel Nibodeau claims that Henri Paul made a fatal gear change
moments before the crash which killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed
and himself.
Nibodeau believes Paul tried
to drop down a gear as he approached the twisty section leading
up to the Place D'Alma underpass. Very sensible behaviour in
a car with a manual gearbox, but the Mercedes he was driving
was an automatic. Thus Nibodeau asserts the Ritz driver placed
the car, which was travelling at between 60 and 70 mph, in neutral.
It was this that forced Paul to lose control, not a second car
believes Nibodeau.
If it is correct, as French
police believe, that Paul was three times over the alcohol limit
and had taken performance reducing tranquillisers, then this
gear change error could have put the situation beyond his control.
Police have established the existence of paint marks on the Mercedes
from a white Fiat Uno which they believe may have come into contact
with Paul's car prior to the crash. If the gearbox theory is
right then it is now unclear whether Paul's car hit the Uno before
or after losing control.
Nibodeau points to the latter,
as the skid marks approaching the tunnel did not belong to Mercedes,
confirming that a second car sought to avoid the out of control
limo.
However, Nibodeau's is but
one view and the final rulings following the official investigation
are not expected until January 1999.
Diana Crash Report Leaked
- But Uno mystery still unsolved
LEAKS from the long investigation
into the death of Princess Wales offer succour to both pro- and
anti- conspiracy theorists, it has emerged.
Conspiracy theorists have often
said that the Mercedes that carried Diana to her death last August
had been tampered with. But details from a 500 page technical
report into the crash car suggest there was nothing wrong with
the car and that its speed at impact was 60 mph, not 120 mph
as many earlier reports claimed.
But the police technicians
do support suspicions about the involvement of a white Fiat Uno
which, it says, collided with the Mercedes on entering a Paris
road tunnel. Despite massive police efforts the Uno has never
been found. (3/11/98)
Judge's Questions Over Diana's
Death
- French Judge Herve Stephan
issues investigation statement
HERVE STEPHAN the Paris Judge
investigating Diana, Princess of Wales's death last August has
issued a statement highlighting key points in the accident that
remain unexplained.
As LondonNet revealed earlier
this year, Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes carrying the
Princess, did have an unusually high level of carbon monoxide
in his blood. His sample will be retested to find out why.
Stephan also wants to know
why Diana was not immediately rushed to hospital rather than
being attended to at the scene. Experts suggest she may have
survived if she had received earlier hospital treatment. The
judge also wants further tests on the Mercedes wreckage in a
bid to answer further questions.
The judge also rounded on what
he says are "unreliable witnesses" who have slowed
the investigation. "The detailed and in-depth investigation
has been slowed by having to explore evidence of certain witnesses
who have given misleading information and false leads" he
said. (26/8/98)
Did Speeding
Driver Kill Di?
- Francois Levistre believes
he could have caused death crash
FRENCH motorist Francois Levistre
has told journalists investigating the death of Diana, Princess
of Wales, that he may have inadvertently caused the smash.
The 54 year old claims he was
speeding as he entered the underpass from a side road. He recalls
both the white Fiat Uno and Mercedes having to swerve to avoid
him as he joined the main carriageway.
"Thinking about it carefully
I now understand how I could have helped cause the crash. I was
close behind the car, as much as 10 metres, and my driving may
have caused it to swerve and lose control". Levistre made
his comments in an article in a British newspaper. (3/8/98)
Chauffeur:
Diana Car Brakes Were Faulty
- Driver tells of serious
problem for doomed Mercedes
THE MERCEDES that carried Diana,
Princess of Wales to her death had faulty brakes, according to
the car's regular driver.
Chauffeur Olivier Lafaye has
told investigating magistrates in Paris that the Mercedes 280
SEL was known to have faulty brakes and that it therefore should
only have been driven by someone well used to its problems.
On the night Diana died the
Mercedes was driven by Ritz Hotel chauffeur Henri Paul, a man
who had never previously taken charge of the car.
"It didn't hold the road
well," said Lafaye. "You had to know how to drive it
safely." Lafaye's comments are the latest twist in the investigation
into
Diana's death, an investigation
that is already 11 months old and which is not now expected to
reach any firm conclusions until October. (28/7/98)
Al Fayed Lashes
Out At "Monstrous" Earl
- Diana's brother, Earl
Spencer accused of 'blatant commercialism'
LOFTY Earl Spencer, has again
come under fire, this time from Mohamed Al Fayed.
The Harrods owner rounded on
Princess Diana's brother after the Earl slammed Fayed's conspiracy
claims. Spencer also poured cold water over Fayed's statement
that Diana spoke after her accident.
Spencer shot his mouth off
in a sickly-sweet interview on the BBC this week. The programme
seemed timed to rack up ticket sales to the morbid Althorp Diana
theme park, which opens at the beginning of July.
Fayed, writing in a newspaper,
labelled the new claims "monstrous" and said that the
interview was "blatant commercialism". (26/6/98)
 Al Fayed
Plays Down Conspiracy Claims
- Key Diana witnesses meet in Paris
MOHAMMED AL FAYED emerged from
the meeting of key witnesses to the Diana/Dodi crash tragedy
in Paris to say it was "distressing but helpful."
The Harrods boss has come under
fire in the UK media this week for fanning the fires of conspiracy
theory but was careful to refrain from making controversial statements
at the meeting presided over by Judge Herve Stephan.
Al Fayed has long supported
the view that there is something sinister to the deaths of his
son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales but has recently toned
down his outbursts on the subject.
The meeting itself was something
akin to the last scene in Agatha Christie novels where all the
main characters are grilled by Hercule Poirot. As well as Al
Fayed, Judge Stephan talked to members of the paparazzi, those
witnesses first on the scene that fateful day last August and
assorted medical experts. (5/6/98)
Did MI6 Kill
Diana?
"Flash of light"
caused crash claims witness
AN ITV documentary has raised
fresh doubts over the crash that killed Diana , Princess of Wales
and Dodi Fayed.
A key witness in the programme
claimed there was a strong flash of light from in front of the
Mercedes just before the crash, possibly from a motorbike. Although
initially dismissed as just the flashlight from one of the paparazzi,
it is now argued that this could have been a high power anti-personnel
device used by secret agents, possibly MI6. Such devices could
blind a driver for several minutes, making a crash at any speed
inevitable.
Conspiracy backlash: Establishment
mocks new evidence
Thatcher's former press secretary
"Sir" Bernard Ingham said of the new evidence "I
think I'm living in a lunatic asylum...you are suggesting somebody
bumped her off because she was going to marry a Muslim. We're
living in fantasy land".
Royal "biographer"
Hugo Vickers called the show "a lot of theories - I deplore
it". A further documentary by bourgeois broadcasters at
Channel Four tonight will attempt to cast further doubt on the
various non-accident theories.
New claims
The programme had Di's former
lover James Hewitt claiming he was approached by secret agents
prior to the crash telling him to stop seeing the Princess or
he would meet the same fate as a former bodyguard who died in
"mysterious circumstances".
It also claimed there is new
evidence regarding driver Henri Paul. Substantial untraceable
payments were made to Paul's account in the months leading up
to the crash. Unusually high levels of carbon monoxide were found
in his body. This shows blood samples taken from the dead Paul
could have been tampered with claims the film. Although after
the crash it was widely acknowledged that the driver was drunk
at the wheel and a long-term alcoholic, his liver appeared perfectly
healthy in the autopsy.
An appearance in the documentary
by MI5 man David Shayler was withdrawn. The Government's chief
lawyer, The Attorney General, told ITV the programme's broadcasters,
that the scene had to go or they may have faced prosecution under
the Official Secrets Act. (4/6/98)
Did MI6 Kill Diana? We examine the evidence
Diana: The
Plot Thickens
- Evidence for conspiracy
increases with release of "CIA documents"
The Mirror newspaper today
published extracts from secret papers which could show that Diana
WAS MURDERED after all.
The documents are claimed to
originate from the CIA and cost Dodi's father, Al Fayed 10 million
UKP to obtain after a series of meetings in Vienna. They allege
collusion between the CIA and MI6 in providing the final solution
for Diana, Princess of Wales.
A "CIA source in the field"
claims in the document that The Duke of Edinburgh said of Di's
relationship with Dodi :
"Such an affair is racially
and morally repugnant and no son of a bedouin camel trader is
fit for the mother of a future king."
The papers also shed light
on the vehicles involved in the tragedy. The Mercedes had its
electronics tampered with by "K-Team" (Mossad) and
the TURBO Fiat Uno was heavily weighted.
Naturally all concerned with
this matter, aside from Fayed, state that the documents are false.
The vendor of the papers, Oswald LeWinter has already been arrested
and is confined to a cell in Vienna, while interpol search for
his alleged accomplice Karl Kocher. (14/5/98)
Diana Case
Faces Chop
PARIS investigators are set
to abandon their attempts to nail anyone for the death of Diana,
Princess of Wales.
Magistrates looking into the
crash that caused the Princess's death and that of companion
Dodi Al Fayed are said to be on the point of announcing that
they will close the case through lack of evidence. One magistrate
is quoted as saying that the investigation is "going nowhere,"
after police failed to trace the Fiat Uno reckoned to have been
involved in the smash in a Paris tunnel that saw Diana's Mercedes
spin out of control.
The decision to put an end
to the investigation that has so far cost some $400,000 also
lets off the hook the paparazzi posse chasing the Mercedes that
fateful August night who had previously been charged with manslaughter.
Di Death Doubts Resurface
CONSPIRACY theorists received
a boost with the news that a high ranking royal official has
said he wants to open a second investigation into the mysterious
death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
As readers of LondonNet's own
Conspiracy Theory pages will be aware, rumours have been flying
around ever since Diana's death that sinister forces were behind
the accident that caused her demise, but the revelation that
senior members of the British Establishment share the belief
that Diana was murdered will still come as a shock.
According to informed sources,
respected figures in the Queen's Coroner's Office are lobbying
for the right to hold their own investigation as soon as the
French authorities have finished their trawl through the evidence.
Apparently top officials drew the conclusion straight away that
the Paris crash was no accident and now want to test their theories
out.
Related Pages on LondonNet:
Conspiracy Features
The
Big Three Conspiracy Theories:
Explained and reviewed
Did MI6 Kill Diana?
We examine the evidence EXCLUSIVE!
Your
Conspiracy Theories:
A selection of your views
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