Mohamed Al Fayed challenges Stevens' verdict
14th December 2006
Mohamed Al Fayed vowed today to challenge the verdict of the Stevens Report that the killing of his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, was an accident.
Mohamed Al Fayed said: "I will never accept this cover up of what really happened. For nine years I have fought against overwhelming odds and monstrous official obstructions. I will not stop now in my quest for the truth. It is the only thing I can do for those two wonderful people who lost their lives. I shall keep searching for the truth, no matter what."
Mohamed Al Fayed had been given an undertaking by Lord Stevens at the outset of the Scotland Yard inquiry in 2004, that he would be given sight of the report well before it was published. He was told that he would be able to comment upon the report and his Director of Security would be able to suggest any lines of inquiry that had been overlooked. This did not happen.
After the Surrey coroner, Michael Burgess, was pushed aside and the retired Judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, was parachuted in to conduct the inquests, the Stevens investigation was suddenly, prematurely and peremptorily closed down.
Mohamed Al Fayed was presented with a copy of Lord Stevens’ report only three hours before he made it public at a press conference in Westminster.
"I am disappointed that the agreement I thought I had with Lord Stevens has not been honoured", said Mohamed Al Fayed. "Lord Stevens assured me, personally, that he would find the truth. He would follow the evidence wherever it led, even if that truth was embarrassing to those in high places. The British Establishment could not tolerate the thought of my son marrying Princess Diana, the mother of the future King. So, they stopped it happening in the most brutal way imaginable."
Thus, the struggle continues for the truth. The truth has nothing to fear from the light of day. Mohamed Al Fayed will use the courts, both here and in France, to take forward his case that Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales were the victims of a high level conspiracy to murder them.
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