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An 11-member jury began deliberating Wednesday about the
verdict in the case of Princess Diana’s death.
The coroner in the case, Lord Justice Scott Baker, told the
jury to ponder well before drawing a conclusion, as there was no rush. He hopes
the jury will come to a unanimous verdict.
The jury must decide, after six months of testimony, whether
someone is responsible for the death of Princess Diana and determine who that
someone is. The members of the jury must establish whether French investigators
were right when they concluded, a few days after Diana’s death, that her
driver, Henri Paul, was drunk and driving too fast. They also have to consider
whether the paparazzi pursuing the princess and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed bear
part of the responsibility for the couple’s death.
Following the inquest into Diana’s death, Scott Baker
concluded that there was absolutely no evidence that members of the British
royal family or the British secret service had plotted the accident in which
the princess died. That is why he told the jury members they were not allowed
to conclude that Diana’s death was staged, but only choose the verdict out of
five options. He also said that the accusations made by Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi’s
father, were completely unfounded, so that even Fayed’s lawyer stopped pursuing
them.
Despite the coroner’s conclusion, Al-Fayed has always been
convinced that the royal family is to blame for the death of the couple. He
also believes that Prince Charles participated in the conspiracy, so that he
could marry Camilla Parker-Bowles. Fayed expressed his sadness towards the
injustice that the British royal family did to Diana.
Baker also asked the jury to establish whether the couple
would have survived if they had worn seatbelts, or whether the princess would
still be alive if she had been taken to the hospital in time.
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