Al-Fayed vows to uncover the truth behind deaths

MOHAMED AL-FAYED insisted yesterday that Princess Diana and his son, Dodi, were murdered on the orders of a member of the British royal family.

The Harrods owner branded John Stevens’s three-year investigation into the August 1997 Paris crash as “garbage” and a “cover-up”.

The senior royal and MI6 were in it together, according to Mr Al Fayed.

“I’m certain 100% that a leading member of the royal family planned that and the whole plot was executed on his order with the help of MI6.”

An annoyed Mr Al-Fayed said that Mr Stevens, formerly Britain’s most senior policeman as Metropolitan police commissioner, was “just a mental case” if he tried to brush aside his concerns as simply the words of a grieving father.

Mr Stevens was simply a “tool for the establishment”, he said.

Mr Al-Fayed said: “I have had threats but I believe in God and if they want to hurt me or any member of my family, the world knows that the terrorists and the gangsters have taken my son away from me.

“God will help me, I’m sure, and with God’s blessing I will uncover and show the whole world and this country that they have terrorists that come and execute any crime with their power in government and high places in the royal family, they can cover up anything and they think that the public can be duped.”

Mr Al-Fayed denied that his belief of a plot was a smokescreen for the fact that chauffeur Henri Paul, his employee, was driving drunk. He took to the wheel despite having alcohol levels twice over the British drink-drive limit, according to the inquiry.

But Mr Al-Fayed claimed Mr Paul was working for French intelligence or MI6 and proof of this was the large sums of money in his account and the 2,000 French francs found in his pocket when he died.

The £3.69 million (€5.5 million) spent on the inquiry was a total waste, according to Mr Al-Fayed.

Lord Stevens said that Princess Diana and Dodi were not engaged or about to get married but Mr Al Fayed’s spokesmen suggested this was not true.