Al-Fayed still accuses M16 of involvement

HARRODS store owner Mohamed al-Fayed still thinks British security services could have been involved in the deaths of his son Dodi and Princess Diana in a Paris car crash despite the verdict of an inquest jury.

But former bodyguard Trevor Rees, sole survivor of the 1997 crash, said he agrees with the verdict that they were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers who were pursuing them.

“It is possible MI6 [Britain’s overseas Secret Intelligence Service] were involved,” Mr al-Fayed’s spokeswoman, Katharine Witty, told the BBC yesterday, a day after the inquest verdict was announced.

“We are still saying it’s possible but whether ... we can do anything about that remains to be seen,” she said. “He is just going to reflect on the full ramifications of the verdict.”

Lord Justice Scott Baker said there was “not a shred of evidence” to support al-Fayed’s allegation that Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip, had ordered British security services to kill her and stop her marrying a Muslim.

Mr al-Fayed said: “I’m not the only person who said they were murdered. Diana predicted she would be murdered and how it would happen.”

He insisted the queen and her husband should have been called as witnesses.

Trevor Rees echoed Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, in accepting the jury’s ruling.