DIANA INQUEST CORONER QUITS OVER 'INEXPERIENCE'

Last updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

DIANA INQUEST CORONER QUITS OVER 'INEXPERIENCE'

The inquest into the 1997 death of British royal DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES, has suffered yet another setback - the coroner overlooking the case has quit because she is too 'inexperienced' for the job.

Princess Diana meets Mother Teresa at Mother Teresa's home in the South Bronx.

Egyptian tycoon Al Fayed believes the death of Diana and his son Dodi in an August 1997 Paris car crash was murder and not an accident, as has been ruled in previous investigations.

Al Fayed has long alleged that Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip and Britain's Security Services conspired to kill Diana, and also that she was pregnant with Dodi's child at the time of her death.

Dame Butler-Sloss resigned from the case yesterday (24Apr07), claiming she lacked the proper experience to rule over such an inquest.

She says, "This was a decision I took after a great deal of thought and reflection.

"These inquests now require a jury, and I do not have the degree of experience of jury cases that I feel is appropriate for presiding over inquests of this level of public interest."

Al Fayed will now have to present his case to Butler-Sloss' replacement, Lord Justice Scott Baker, who will be the third coroner in just nine months to oversee the inquiry.

Baker will have to review thousands of pages of evidence before he takes over the case in June (07).

Source: WENN

| Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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