Diana probe chief to be quizzed over sober driver claim

FORMER Metropolitan Police commissioner, Lord Stevens, is to be quizzed in the Diana inquest over alleged “gross discrepancies” relating to whether the driver in the case was drunk.

Lawyers for Henri Paul’s family called yesterday for the ex-Scotland Yard chief, who headed the Operation Paget investigation into the crash, to become a witness.

At a preliminary hearing at the High Court, Richard Keen QC said that Lord Stevens told Mr Paul’s parents in November 2006 that their son was not drunk at the time of the crash.