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From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk
In article <1149430048.734347.196110@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
volcaran writes
>banana wrote:
>> Here is the article from the 'News of the Screws'.
>>
>> You have to laugh at the following:
>>
>> >>>These aren't opinions, conjecture, theories or suggestions. They're
>> >>>facts - full and final," said one source close to the investigation.
>>
>> One source close to the 'royal' family's PR operation, more like.
>>
>> It's been decided whether or not to appoint a jury, has it? Because if a
>> jury's appointed, I thought it was supposed to be for them to determine
>> facts, not some cop who's come out of retirement from the House of
>> 'Lords'.
>
>IIRC Stevens didn't come out of retirement - he was a serving officer
>when the investigation started and continued to head it after he
>retired from the Met.
I stand corrected.
>How long before Fayed backtracks from his stated
>faith in Stevens to conduct a thorough investigation if the results are
>as claimed?
Hopefully not long. It's getting a bit ridiculous, the way MAF keeps
saying he's got faith in the investigation. Never mind that Stevens
accepted a peerage from the monarch after being appointed to run the
investigation for the monarch's coroner. Never mind the ongoing
'royalist' spin job. Never mind the outrageous statements, supposedly
coming from 'sources close to the inquiry', about how they are aiming to
'lay conspiracy theories to rest'. I can't think of a single example
when a proper judge has said anything similar to that, during any other
case. It's a clear indication of prejudice. And curiously they don't go
on record to deny saying these things, so one must assume they are being
said without their objection.
>> And has it also been decided what the results of testing
>> evidence in court at the inquest will be?
>>
>> Has Alberto Repossi been told he might meet the same fate as his
>> co-resident in Monaco, Edmond Safra?
>
>Did he give evidence to the French enquiry? Maybe he wasn't prepared to
>commit perjury when called to make a formal statement to the British
>enquiry.
A previous UK press report said that he gave evidence to the English
enquiry, and that he asserted in a sworn statement that he did sell them
an engagement ring.
The following is from the 'Daily Express'.
The 'News of the World' quote that "he admits there was no ring" strikes
me as unlikely to be true.
If he did swear X and then swear something that totally conflicts with
X, then surely he did commit perjury on at least one of the occasions.
But of course, neither his statements to the English investigation, nor
any statement to the French one, have been made public, so anything
that's in the newspapers about this must be taken with a mountain of
salt.
Especially if it appears under the name someone like Dominic Lawson.
***BEGIN ENQUIRY***
DIANA'S SECRET WEDDING PLAN: Jeweller tells police of chosen £130,000
engagement
Written by Martin Evans, Daily Express
Tuesday, 04 October 2005
Jeweller tells police she had chosen a £130,000 engagement ring - and
Dodi was to hand it to her on the night they died
PRINCESS Diana and her Dodi Al Fayed were planning to announce their
engagement when they were killed, the inquiry into her death has been
told.
The couple were on their way to Dodi's Paris apartment, where he planned
to propose to Diana with a £130,000 ring, when tragedy struck.
A jeweller has told police that the ring had been chosen by the Princess
herself, and the Daily Express can reveal that the couple were expected
to announce wedding plans to the world the following day. The disclosure
was made last Wednesday by Monte Carlo based jeweller Alberto Repossi to
a Scotland Yard team of detectives headed by former top policeman Lord
Stevens.
In a sworn statement which lays bare for the first time the true nature
of the relationship between Diana and Dodi, Mr Repossi confirmed to
detectives that he sold the engagement ring weeks before the Paris car
crash.
Mr Repossi, who has exclusive boutiques in Monaco and Paris, travelled
to London to be interviewed by senior officers from Lord Stevens'
inquiry team.
Mr Repossi told them that he secretly met Diana and Dodi in the South of
France in August 1997 after the spotted a £130,000 ring from his Say Yes
collection in the window of his Monte Carlo shop.
During a cloak-and-dagger operation to deter paparazzi pursuit, Mr
Repossi was called to a clandestine redezvous where Diana was measured
for the emerald and diamond ring.
Arrangements were then made for her lover to collect it a week later at
the Paris branch of the jewellers - close to his father Mohamed Al
Fayed's Ritz Hotel.
But before Dodi was able to present his bride-to-be with the ring and
seal their love, the couple were both dead.
Evidence
Mr Repossi, who has video and documentary evidence to back up his story
and which has been seen by this newspaper, has given a sworn statement
to officers that the ring in question was indeed bought to signify their
engagement.
In a statement he said: "In order to avoid any distortion of the facts.
I am enclosing herewith a copy of my consignment book, which clearly
indicates the jewel in question was, at this early date, annoted by me
as being an engagement ring."
He added:" The docket speaks for itself. It was an engagement ring,
Diana chose it herself and Dodi picked it up from my shop in paris the
night before they died. I met them both in St Tropez and Diana picked
the ring herself."
This fresh evidence from Mr Repossi also ties in with comments made by
Diana in August 1997 that she was planning to make an announcement which
would give everyone a "big surprise".
Weeks before her death, while holidaying with Dodi, she told a group of
journalists: "You are going to get a big surprise with the next thing I
do."
Investigators are now examining the likelihood that the announcement was
to be her engagement to Dodi.
The latest development also lends more weight ot the growing belief that
Diana was pregnant with Dodi's child when the couple were killed.
Conclusive evidence to confirm the pregnancy was destroyed when Diana's
body was embalmed within hours of her death.
Ever since the fatal crash in Paris' Alma tunnel in the early hours of
August 31, 1997, speculation has been mounting that it was not an
accident but a deliberate act of murder carried out by the British
secret service.
News that the lovers were to become engaged is certain to fuel those
theories still furthur.
Harrods tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed has always insisted that the couple were
killed because the Royal Family did not want the mother of the future
King of England marrying an Egyptian born Muslim. That theory received
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