Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime and Operations Command are assessing the “relevance and credibility” of new information regarding the death of the Princess and her close friend Dodi al Fayed in Paris in 1997.
It has been reported that new intelligence claimed the Princess was killed by a member of the British military, but Scotland Yard refused to give any more details about its nature.
The information is also believed to have been passed to the Met by the Royal Military Police, after being raised by the parents-in-law of a former soldier. The new dossier is said to include a reference to the Special Air Service, or SAS, Sky News reported.
If material has indeed been uncovered by another police force it could lead to it being attached more weight than numerous other conspiracy theories, which were rejected by an inquest in 2008.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “The Metropolitan Police Service is scoping information that has recently been received in relation to the deaths and assessing its relevance and credibility. » | David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent | Saturday, August 17, 2013
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