New revelations have emerged about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, according to reports. Scotland Yard is assessing allegations claiming that Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were murdered by a member of the British military.
Diana, along with her companion Dodi, 42, and the chauffeur of their Mercedes car, Henri Paul, was killed in Paris when the car crashed in a tunnel on August 31, 1997.
Egyptian billionaire Mohammed Al Fayed, Dodi’s father, had claimed that the crash was plotted by Diana’s father-in-law Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and British intelligence agency MI6.
“The Metropolitan Police service is scoping information that has recently been received in relation to the deaths and assessing its relevance and credibility. The assessment will be carried out by officers from the specialist crime and operations command. This is not a re-investigation and does not come under Operation Paget,” Scotland Yard said in a statement.
The Met Police had re-investigated the allegations of conspiracy by the British royal family to murder Diana and Dodi Fayed under Operation Paget for three years, but the 2006 report rejected the claims.
The Met Police on Sunday did not reveal any details about the new information, but the allegation targets the elite Special Air Service force, which is said to be “behind Princess Diana’s death”, according to the Sunday People tabloid. A “secret diary,” said to be that of Diana, is also referred to in the allegation.
The Royal Military Police had passed on the information to the Met Police, including the allegation that a former SAS soldier claimed to know who “arranged Princess Diana’s death and that it had been covered up”.
The allegation emerged during the court martial of former SAS sniper Danny Nightingale.