The judge at the inquest into Princess Diana’s death on Friday asked her former butler to return to court to explain discrepancies between his testimony and comments attributed to him in a tabloid newspaper.
Paul Burrell faced a three-day grilling from lawyers last month when he flew in from Los Angeles to give evidence at the inquest into the deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed in a 1997 Paris car crash. Dodi’s father, alleges the couple were killed by British security forces on the orders of Prince Philip and Diana’s former father-in-law. On the day that al-Fayed peppered his testimony to the inquest with a string of allegations covering a whole host of British establishment figures.
In a video recording obtained by the tabloid, he appeared to say he had held back certain facts and introduced “red herrings” during his evidence to the inquest. An inquest spokesman said: “The Coroner has asked Mr Burrell to return to court to explain discrepancies between the evidence he gave to the inquest and the material which is contained in the transcripts of the recording taken by The Sun Newspaper.”
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