Fayed wants review of son’s murder
Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed said yesterday that Diana, Princess of Wales, and his son Dodi were “murdered.”
Mr Al Fayed wants to see an official judicial inquiry launched into their deaths.
He is seeking a judicial review of the refusal by Lord Advocate Colin Boyd QC to hold an inquiry in Scotland.
At the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Mr Al Fayed’s lawyer, Richard Keen QC, said there were “numerous matters which cast material doubt” on the official explanation that the 1997 car crash in Paris was an accident.
A French inquiry reached the conclusion that driver Henri Paul, who also died, was drunk and on anti-depressants at the time of the fatal crash.
But outside the court yesterday Mr Al Fayed said: “The most beautiful woman in the world was murdered with my son.
“I have been fighting for six years, but I can see the light and justice can be done.”
Mr Keen said his client had reached the “reasonable belief that the life of his son Dodi may have been taken by force.”
Mr Keen claimed security services were tailing and monitoring Diana and Dodi in the month leading up to their deaths, on August 31, 1997.
He added the US National Security Agency had confirmed the Princess and her sons Harry and William were under surveillance at the time of the crash.
The court heard that driver Mr Paul may have been an MI6 informant.
The hearing continues
