Diana Inquest The French Cover-up

Diana Inquest: The French Cover-up

"Diana and Dodi were taken away at the prime of their life, when they were at their happiest. They looked forward to a future together, and I'll always mourn their loss, tome and to the world." - Mohamed Al Fayed.

Diana Inquest: The French Cover-up is the third book in The Untold Story inquest by Brisbane author, John Morgan.

Mr Morgan's book shows how vital evidence was hidden, withheld and distorted throughout the French investigation and in particular from the jury at the 2007-2008 British inquest into the tragic death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.

The French Investigation into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed began on 31st of August 1997, immediately following the Paris car crash that took their lives. On the following day blood test results showed that their driver, Henri Paul, had been drunk at the wheel of the Mercedes S280.

Diana Inquest: The Untold Story:

exposes major issues of corruption and cover-up at the British inquest.

Diana Inquest: The French Cover-up
John Morgan
Author: John Morgan
ISBN: 9781450565943

Interview with John Morgan

How does this book expose the hidden facts of the police in France and Britain?

John Morgan: The facts they failed to mention during the Diana Inquest is the focus of this book, there is a huge amount of evident that wasn't heard at the inquest. There are seven thousand pages of transcript of the evidence given at the inquest and on top of that there was a UK police report which was about 800 pages; what I have done is put them together in this book.

The police report wasn't available to the jury during the inquest and also the jury only heard the evidence from witnesses after ten years as the inquest took place ten years after the crash. The judge ruled out the statements from the witnesses that were taken in the early days of the investigation in France, the jury weren't allowed to view those statements and they could only make their deliberations based on the evidence heard at the inquest.

What it is about, really, is putting all the evidence together and comparing what the witnesses actually said at the time and compare what was heard at the inquest- it is only then that you are able to establish the truth of what actually occurred.

In this particular book, part three, which is about the French involvement, it shows that the French, from day one, when the autopsy was conducted on the body of the driver, were part of a huge cover up. The evident points to there being two bodies in the autopsy room; the blood samples from the driver were meant to be blood alcohol tested and DNA tested. The blood sample tested has a carbon dioxide level of 20.7% which doesn't match the evidence of the driver, Henry Paul, in the hotel, when he was walking around normally. A person of that high carbon dioxide level would be staggering and disorientated; they wouldn't be able to walk- that doesn't fit. The evident points to two blood samples being taken; one from another body, which was not Henry Paul that was subject to the blood alcohol testing and another from Henry Paul that was later subjected to DNA testing.

The doctor that did the blood tests refused to appear at the inquest, he has made a concerted effort over the past years to ensure that the DNA tests samples are never subjected to blood alcohol testing. He has made a list of statements, one of which was that the Queen of England would have to negotiate with the President of France for the testing to be done. There is absolutely no way these DNA tests samples will be tested for blood alcohol, which is just ludicrous.


How can they get away with covering up all of the vital evidence?

John Morgan: The reason they can get away with it is because the government is behind it, the people who have done this and there is a few people involved, when you piece it all together, have probably been given a green light and told it really doesn't matter what you say, you'll never be held accountable for this. A lot of things have to happen for someone to die in a car crash.

One of the reasons they can get away with this is because they delayed things, ten years. Why wait ten years before they have the inquest? By the time the inquest happened, Diana was so far gone that people were saying "let's get this over quickly, we have to move on."


This appalling tragedy devastated families and the world; how will this new evidence change the way people, worldwide, think about inquests?

John Morgan: It should do. The books are not an easy read, they are very evidential. It is based on the real evidence and a lot of it comes from the inquest itself and the seven thousand pages of transcript.

There are a lot of witnesses that saw motorbikes chasing the Mercedes, it has been said they were the paparazzi, but it couldn't be the paparazzi because these were powerful motorbikes. The paparazzi all drove small cars or scooters. There are about nine or ten witnesses who saw it and they all have their own descriptions, but it isn't until you piece it all together that you really can establish what happened.

The jury sat there day after day, for six months, there job was impossible because there weren't able to see or hear vital evidence from witnesses.


What initially made you decide to write this series?

John Morgan: I didn't have a great interest in royalty but in 2003, Diana's butler, Paul Barrell, published the book called A Royal Duty and the newspapers cottoned on to the most critical thing in the book, which was a copy of a note from Diana predicting that she could die in a car crash. This letter got reproduced in newspapers around the world and that made me think 'boy that is interesting that she is writing a letter, saying that she could die in a car crash, and that is what happened' it has to make someone suspicious.

I retired later in the same year, due to my illness and it took me a year or two to come to terms with the illness and then I thought 'what am I going to do?' I decided the one thing I could do was write and this was a subject, a big subject, an important subject which I started to learn about. I started writing a book on the death of Diana and then in December 2006 the British police produced their report which was published on the Internet and I downloaded it and read through it. I already knew a reasonable amount about the case and its circumstances because I had been working on my book for 18 months, I thought 'boy, this is unbelievable', what the police report said was quite different to the facts of the case and the evidence was manipulated in the report. Instead of writing a book just on the death of Diana, I wrote a book called Cover-Up of a Royal Murder, that book was published a month before the inquest started and the Al Fayed lawyers at the inquest used that book. During the inquest I downloaded the transcripts, every day, for six months and went through the evidence and then started to put these books together.

Both the French and British police reports claimed it was an accident by a drunk driver, the jury finding was that it was an unlawful killing, caused by the driver who was influenced by alcohol and also caused by unidentified following vehicles. The unidentified following vehicles got interpreted around the world to be the paparazzi, but that was not what the jury verdict was. Unlawful killing is the equivalent of manslaughter.

Will there be a part four of this series?

John Morgan: Yes, there is going to be a part four. I am hoping it will come out towards the end of the year.


Most people worldwide believe that Princess Diana died in an accident caused by paparazzi and drink driving, is your aim to change their minds?

John Morgan: It is really quite shocking and one of the things about is that it is so hard to kill someone in a car crash; when anyone hears that someone has died in a car crash it is always referred to as an 'accident'. It is so hard to organise a car crash and when you look at the evidence from volume 1 and 2 of the Diana Inquest series, you will read about the medical treatment of Diana in the ambulance. Diana didn't die in the car crash, she was injured but witnesses have said she was talking after the crash. Diana did have internal injuries after the crash; volume 2 shows you what was said in the ambulance transcripts back to the base. The ambulance trip took one hour and forty three minutes from the crash to the hospital, which is a very long time for someone to get to hospital. Volume 2 analyses after the crash, minute by minute and it is shocking, the book shows that the people in the ambulance were apart of the conspiracy and made sure she wasn't going to survive. An hour and forty three minutes after the crash she got to the hospital and was still alive, but she stopped breathing six minutes after she arrived at the hospital. It shows that they couldn't guarantee she would die in the crash, but they had a back-up to ensure she wouldn't make it through the night. It is hard to believe they did it, but they did.


Do you have your own thoughts on why this happened?

John Morgan: Yes, that is in Volume 2 of the series too. What Mohamed Al Fayed and many people say is it is because of the relationship Diana was having with Dodi, Diana was upsetting a lot of people with that relationship. But when you look into it, the French was heavily involved and the main people who were upset about the Diana and Dodi relationship was the Royal Family, the French have no allegiance to the Royal Family, so why would the French be interested? The main issue for the French was her involvement in the landmines; she was given a threat over the telephone, to her life, straight after she first began involved in the industry. The Minister of the Armed Forces in the UK said to Diana that she better back off, and if she didn't an accident could happen. When you piece it all together it is a government organised thing done by the intelligence agencies. It is shocking, it is very shocking.

These books are very hard to come away from and still think that this was an accident, the evidence is very strong. It is unbelievable.