Diana driver's alcohol intake not necessarily relevant

Evidence that Diana, Princess of Wales’s driver had been drinking is not necessarily “relevant” to the cause of the crash which killed her, an expert claimed today.

Crash specialist Dr John Searle, who was hired by Mohamed al Fayed’s Ritz Hotel to investigate aspects of the tragedy, told Diana’s inquest that being twice the legal drink-drive limit would have created only a “small risk” of having an accident on the fateful journey.