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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: Lady Di killed by paparazzi and bad driving, says jury |
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It's breaking news on MSNBC. No full story yet.
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BREAKING NEWS: Jury rules Princess Diana was unlawfully killed by recklessness of driver and paparazzi |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Here's the story:
3 minutes ago
LONDON - A coroner's jury ruled Monday that Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed through the reckless actions of their driver and the paparazzi in 1997.
The jury had been told that a verdict of unlawful killing would mean that they believed the reckless behavior of the driver and paparazzi amounted to manslaughter. It was the most serious verdict available to them.
The couple died in Paris when their speeding car slammed into a concrete pillar while it was being chased by photographers in cars and on motorbikes. The jury added that the fact that Diana and Dodi were not wearing seatbelts was a contributing factor.
The coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, had instructed the jury that there was no evidence to support claims by Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, that the couple were victims of a murder plot directed by Prince Philip and carried out by British secret agents. The jury was not at liberty to disagree.
The six women and five men on the jury began deliberating April 2 after hearing six months of testimony from more than 240 witnesses. They also went to Paris to see the scene of the Aug. 31, 1997 crash.
The cost of the inquest itself, including lawyers and staff assisting the coroner, has exceeded $6 million.
Baker had expressed hope that the inquest would lay to rest, once and for all, any false theories about the princess' death.Dodi Fayed died instantly when the couple's Mercedes, moving in excess of 60 mph, slammed into a concrete pillar in the Alma underpass in Paris at 12:22 a.m. Medics initially thought Diana would survive her severe injuries, but she died at a hospital around 4 a.m.
The paparazzi who pursued the couple were vilified. As grieving Britons piled up flowers outside Diana's Kensington Palace home, some British newspapers declared they would never use another paparazzi shot � a vow that proved time-limited.
French police announced a day after the crash that tests on driver Henri Paul's blood showed he was three times over the national drunk-driving standard. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: |
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So, why did Diana really die?
Of course the truth is that when a bunch of crazed paparazzi are determined to chase you down and you are equally determined to get away, disaster looms.
Now mix in a drunk driver and passengers who stupidly (although people should be legally free to be so stupid) stupidly refuse to wear their seatbelts, and we know how and why Diana died.
But, the government has once again stirred the conspiracy pot.
By refusing to allow the jury to consider the conspiracy allegations that Di's darling Dodi's dad demanded, the government has laid the groundwork for the conspiracy buffs (or nuts if you prefer) to dust off their diatribes about ... "D" conspiracy. |
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Beeyee

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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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It just so happens that she crashed into the 13th pillar of the tunnel, which also just happens to be at an ancient Goddess Diana worship site. Not to mention the 'detour' the ambulance took. Move along, nothing to see here.  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:14 am Post subject: |
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Seems like those Middle Easterners |
Generalize much? |
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