LONDON – The coroner leading the inquest into the death of Princess Diana said Monday that there is no evidence that Prince Philip, the Secret Intelligence Service or any other government agency had anything to do with her death in a 1997 car crash.
Lord Justice Scott Baker told jurors they had the option of deciding that Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed died as the result of an accident or as the result of gross negligence by the paparazzi following their car or by driver Henri Paul.
"There is no evidence that the Duke of Edinburgh ordered Diana's execution, and there is no evidence that the Secret Intelligence Service or any other government agency organized it," he said.
He said it was not open to the jury to find that Philip or anyone else had staged the Paris car accident that killed Diana, Fayed and Paul.
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