Scotland Yard has launched a probe into fresh claims that Princess Diana was murdered by a member of the British military and is examining the “relevance and credibility” of the new information, ahead of her 16th death anniversary.
The move to assess the the information has been approved by Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Scotland Yard’s senior-most officer. The Metropolitan police stressed that it is “not a re-investigation” into the deaths of the Princess of Wales, her partner Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul in a Paris car crash on August 31, 1997. “The Metropolitan Police Service is scoping information that has recently been received in relation to the deaths and assessing its relevance and credibility,” it said in a statement here on Saturday.
“The assessment will be carried out by officers from the specialist crime and operations command. This is not a re-investigation and does not come under Operation Paget,” the statement said. “On April 7, 2008, the jury concluded their verdict as ‘unlawful killing, grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles and of the Mercedes’,” it said. In December 2006, Operation Paget, the police investigation into allegations that the princess and Al Fayed were murdered.