PM rejects inquiry into Diana death

[emad]

Following yesterday's much-hyped news that the late Diana left a letter saying she feared for her life in a car accident, the UK's BBC reports that:

There will be no public inquiry into Princess Diana's death, Downing Street has confirmed. The prime minister's official spokesman rejected calls for an inquiry into the car crash in Paris in which Diana, Princess of Wales, died.

An allegation in The Daily Mirror newspaper on Monday by Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, said that the princess feared her life was in danger 10 months before her death in 1997.

"Everybody knows there has been an exhaustive investigation by the French authorities into the circumstances surrounding Diana's death, and there will be nothing to be gained from repeating that here," the prime minister's spokesman said. "But clearly there will be a routine coroner's inquest in Britain once the French legal processes are completed."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3210692.stm

On Edit: The findings of the'exhaustive investigation' by the French is still a secret from the public.

It isn't the French who are holding up the inquest - which by law has to be done by the Royal Coroner, with ALL the most senior family members present.

Blair won't allow himself to be humiliated in public with a Di inquest and will stall until he can figure some way of getting cover

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. All senior members present?

Where have you got this from? Are you confusing it with the fact that if the coroner decides to use a jury in the inquest (and he doesn't have to), then it has to be drawn from the Royal Household?