Diana jurors shown pictures of dying princess
Pictures of a dying Princes Diana were shown in court on Thursday as the inquest into her death along with boyfriend Dodi Fayed in 1997 neared the end of a second week.
Jurors were also shown pictures of the paparazzi who took photos after the crash in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris, while a witness gave testimony about the famed white Fiat seen in the tunnel shortly before the crash.
The images of Diana were pixellated but her blonde hair and the side of her face could be seen inside the car, while some pictures also showed French emergency doctor Frederic Mailliez tending to her.
One picture by photographer Laslo Veres seemed to show Diana on the floor in the back of the car, with one leg raised. Another showed photographer Romuald Rat next to the open door of the Mercedes shortly after the crash.
Several showed emergency workers carrying a slumped figure away from the vehicle. "It is perfectly clear ... that the paparazzi who were present at the scene of the crash had no compunction about taking photographs of the victims both inside the car and being carried outside the car," said Michael Mansfield, lawyer for Dodi's father Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Some pictures of Diana and Dodi were released onto the inquest's website, including shots of them emerging from the back of the Ritz hotel, but other more sensitive pictures were not published.
Diana, ex-wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles, was killed alongside her Egyptian boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul in a high speed car crash in Paris in August 1997.
Dodi's father Mohamed Al-Fayed, the millionaire owner of London's upscale Harrods department store, believes they were killed in a plot hatched by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, and the British security services.
The plot was conceived because Diana, 36, was carrying Dodi's unborn child and the royal family did not want her to marry a Muslim, Al-Fayed claims.
The inquest started at the beginning of last week and is expected to last up to six months. Earlier this week it travelled to Paris for the jurors to see the scene of the crash and the Ritz hotel for themselves.


















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