Police inquiry may end Diana murder theories

LONDON – A long-awaited British police report into Princess Diana’s death due on Thursday could finally lay to rest conspiracy theories that she was murdered rather than that she died the victim of a tragic accident.

More than nine years after Diana and her lover Dodi al Fayed were killed in a high-speed car smash in Paris, a three-year inquiry headed by Britain’s former top police officer Sir John Stevens is expected to announce on Thursday it has ruled out foul play. However that is unlikely to quash theories that British spies or even her ex-husband, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, had plotted the accident because the couple’s relationship was embarrassing the royal household.The top-level police investigation was ordered by former Royal Coroner Michael Burgess in January 2004 when he opened a British inquest into Diana’s death.”I am aware that there is speculation that (her death was) not the result of a sad but relatively straightforward road traffic accident in Paris,” Burgess said at the time.Nampa-ReutersHowever that is unlikely to quash theories that British spies or even her ex-husband, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, had plotted the accident because the couple’s relationship was embarrassing the royal household.The top-level police investigation was ordered by former Royal Coroner Michael Burgess in January 2004 when he opened a British inquest into Diana’s death.”I am aware that there is speculation that (her death was) not the result of a sad but relatively straightforward road traffic accident in Paris,” Burgess said at the time.Nampa-Reuters