Jury Begins Deliberating Verdict in Diana’s Death

By Ona Zachary
14:20, April 3rd 2008
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Jury Begins Deliberating Verdict in Diana’s Death

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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