Diana’s butler recalled over Sun allegations

FORMER royal butler Paul Burrell has been asked to return to the Diana, Princess of Wales inquest following newspaper claims his evidence to the hearing was not the whole truth.

Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker has called for the ex-aide to return to the witness box and explain “discrepancies” between his comments to the jury and others attributed to him in the Sun newspaper. Earlier, his solicitors said Mr Burrell did not “conceal” anything relevant or tell “untruths” during his evidence to the inquest.

Lawyers acting for Mr Burrell have issued a statement denying claims made in the newspaper that the ex-aide did not tell the whole truth to the inquest jury. The tabloid story was the “result of entrapment” and the interview the allegations were based on was an “insidious” form of questioning, claimed solicitors’ firm Walker Smith Way.