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Diana driver's alcohol intake not necessarily relevant Ireland
Online Evidence that Diana, Princess of Wales’s driver had been drinking is not necessarily “relevant” to the cause of the crash which killed her, an expert claimed today. Crash specialist Dr John Searle, who was hired by Mohamed al Fayed’s Ritz Hotel to investigate aspects of the tragedy, told Diana’s inquest that being twice the legal drink-drive limit would have created only a “small risk” of having an accident on the fateful journey. Dr Searle told the hearing that although drinking the amount it has been claimed driver Henri Paul did that night would have increased the chances of having an accident, the risk would still be “one in many thousands”.
(Article continues below) He was speaking as it was confirmed that lawyers are launching a legal challenge to a key ruling on how the inquest at the High Court in London is to proceed after French paparazzi witnesses refused to attend. Lawyers for Henri Paul’s family, the Ritz Hotel where he worked and its owner Mohamed al Fayed have lodged papers applying for judicial review of the coroner’s decision to admit written rather than live evidence. It is understood the challenge, which would be heard within around two weeks time, is not expected to cause any immediate interruption in the inquest itself.
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