Jury Rules Princess Diana's Death Due to Negligent Driving
(04/07/08 9:59 AM)
LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - After six months, an inquest jury in Britain has ruled that Diana, the Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed's death in 1997 was due to the "grossly negligent" driving of her chaffeur, Henri Paul, as well as the numerous paparazzi who were following the car on that tragic night.
According to the Daily Mail, the jury also noted that Paul's judgement was impaired because he had been drinking alcohol earlier in the evening, and "the fact Diana and Dodi were not wearing seat belts contributed to their deaths."
Initially, seven paparazzi were arrested after the crash, but they were eventually cleared by French investigators. The pictures the paparazzi had taken in the moments before the crash and after Diana died were shown to the jury during the trial.
The jury ruled that Diana and Dodi were "unlawfully killed", which is a stronger ruling than the previous "tragic accident" conclusion made by Lord Stevens in 2006. The jury also rejected any conspiracy theories, such as those proposed by Mohamed Al Fayed, that MI6 and the Duke of Edinburgh had plotted to murder the couple through the crash.

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