Diana death inquiry 'more complex than we thought'

John Steele / London Telegraph | January 28 2006

The police inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales is "far more complex than any of us thought", said Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, who is heading the investigation.

Lord Stevens also said that some of the issues raised by Mohammed Fayed, the owner of Harrods, whose son Dodi died with the princess in a car crash in Paris in 1997, were "right to be raised".

He did not identify the "issues", a fact likely to be seized upon by conspiracy theorists who have argued that the couple were murdered.

Chief among the conspiracists is Mr Fayed, who has claimed that the couple were victims of an assassination plot orchestrated by Prince Philip and involving British intelligence agencies.

An essential element of the theory was that the princess was pregnant and that the couple were to marry.

The princess's friends have dismissed both suggestions.

Lord Stevens told GMTV, in an interview to be shown tomorrow, that his investigation had been "certainly worthwhile". "It is right to say that some of the issues that have been raised by Mr Fayed have been right to be raised. We are pursing those. It is a far more complex inquiry than any of us thought."

It emerged last month that the Prince of Wales had met Lord Stevens as part of the inquiry. Sources in the Metropolitan Police, where a team is working under Lord Stevens, have consistently suggested that the inquiry has shown that the French authorities essentially "got it right" by concluding that the couple died when the Mercedes in which they were being driven by a drunken chauffeur, Henri Paul, crashed in a tunnel in an accident.

British inquests into their deaths, for which the Stevens report is being compiled, are likely to take place this year.

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