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Laying to rest all conspiracies
It was good to hold an inquest in Diana's death for the verdict says it all, an accident.
- Gulf News
- Published: 23:38 April 8, 2008
More than ten years after her death, it may be time to finally put to rest the issue of how Diana, Princess of Wales, died. A major inquest in London into the deaths of Diana and Dodi Fayed has returned the only verdict that was appropriate on the basis of the evidence presented. And that is the crucial point.
For all the conspiracy theories, for all the conjectures, the evidence presented pointed to only one verdict - the princess was killed, the jury found, as a result of the driving of the Fayed family chauffeur, her besieging by the paparazzi and because she did not wear a seat belt.
It was a terrible accident, but an accident. The Duke of Edinburgh, MI6, MI5, the police, the mysterious flashing light, an ambush team waiting in the tunnel were not involved.
The inquest was necessary to bring out into the open various theories surrounding Diana's death and deal with them openly. This has been done and it is good that it has been done. If there are any doubts they must be balanced and compared to what was presented to the inquest. A terrible event took place in Paris in 1997. It was an accident, pure and simple.
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