It was 9.50pm as the two car convoy pulled up close to the entrance of the hotel. Outside the the front entrance the official licensed driver Phillipe Dourneau was waiting in a car as was his superior, the director of Etoile Limousine, in another high performance model. In that newspaper interview he spoke of the ``last words of Diana'' in which she called out for Dodi with her dying breaths. The same year, it was announced that he was to take up a job at a district security office for the United Nations in East Timor. The former paratrooper, formerly known as Rees-Jones, worked with American author Moira Johnston on a book called The Bodyguard's Story, which was published in 2000. At the same time she rubbed her stomach. Det finns heller inga vittnesml som sger att det motorn var igng efter kraschen. Scroll down for more {9} It is the evidence of another former Fayed security man Ben Murrell that Mr Rees telephoned him that night to say that Mr Paul was drinking and he thought it was unprofessional. [12] The only survivor of the crash was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was seriously injured but remained conscious. If you had we would have been able to phone ahead and get it sorted out,'' snapped Kes. Enter email address Independent.ie. The summer in 1997 saw Princess Diana become the focus of relentless media attention after she embarked on her relationship with Dodi. Things were heating up when she decided to . It is the first time that Mr Huth's dramatic testimony has ever been heard in public and is most traumatic account of the aftermath of the tragedy heard so far by the inquest jury. Minutes later Dodi popped his head out of the suite and confirmed it all. Kelly started dating Dodi Al Fayed in 1996. He dashed to the rear right door and blocked it for the princess as this breathtaking woman emerged from the back seat still sun tanned from the Cote d'Azur all legs and high heels in a very glamorous, skin tight short blue cocktail dress. I told them that I thought one was alive and described the accident," he said. However, her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived. They took off for the hotel surrounded by screaming motorcycles, chasing and darting around the target vehicles, sometimes two to a bike so a photographer could focus the powerful zoom lens. ``We'll be eating in, go get yourselves some food,'' Dodi told them. Rees was haunted by the guilt of his survival and would wake suddenly in the night as memories of that fateful night ran through his mind. His head was in the front of the car and I could not see his legs." Since St Tropez the couple had been alone in Sardinia, on board the Jonikal, the second of two short breaks they'd taken since returning from France. ``He didn't click with me as a person. One was Phillippe Dourneau, Dodi's regular driver in Paris and a licensed chauffeur of Etoile Limousine, the other, Henri Paul, a fortyish man with thinning hair and glasses, was the assistant head of security for the Fayed owned Ritz Hotel. [4][5] He also briefly attended Sandhurst. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. He said: People asked: 'Was she beautiful?' Flashbulbs started popping as photographers who had learned of the rendezvous spotted the car. Romuald Rat, a photographer who is under suspicion of failing to help Diana, said he pulled the door further open and found the princess trapped between the front and back seats and covered by a rug. About 71 results for Dodi Fayed . Inside the car, it was like a freeze frame in the movies. The ambulance drove at about 20 mph and had to stop for five minutes because Diana's heart started failing. [17], Fayed's father erected two memorials to his son and Diana at Harrods. By the time Dodi moved cameras were all over the car. Once Dodi's death was confirmed, the 11,000 electric bulbs which usually light up the facade of the Harrods store were switched off - which at the time was owned by Mohamed. Then he slipped in lightly, ``So, it's straight back then. Both men felt there was no way to check without causing offence. He has also written another book on this topic which is "not supportive" of Mr Al Fayed's claims, Mr Burnett said. But he told the couple's inquest today: "[It was] basically a walk around Monte Carlo, it wasn't a stroll. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. [2][3], Fayed was a student at Collge Saint Marc before attending the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. I wish I could say she would have died whatever happened, but the fact is, if she had worn her seatbelt she would have been here for Prince William and Harry's weddings, he told the Daily Mail. Price tag 130,000. DrRichard Shepherd said he was inundated with questions about Princess Di's autopsy but has long refused to reveal intimate details. "I didn't see what I learned about [later], that there was another person underneath - the Princess. As they drove through thePont de l'Alma tunnel, they crashed into a pillar. Dodi's father was also the former owner of Fulham Football Club and the Htel Ritz Paris. To counteract the growing tension, Trevor put the couple in the Mercedes with Phillippe at the wheel, while he and his colleague Kez Wingfield followed in the Range Rover. Diana and Fayed, who arrived in Paris after a 10-day getaway on the French Riviera, got into Paul's car a few minutes after. I've got this hanging over me for the rest of my life. ``You never told us where we were going. ``No straight back,'' said Diana laughing. He has issued only the occasional statement and rarely gives interviews. Mother and sons would never meet again. , updated Speaking in 2000, Mr Chikhani said: "I have never seen so many fractures on a man who was still alive." It could be about anything. As soon as they got the couple upstairs, Trevor and Kez came down to try and calm the photographers. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. He could not see the barely-conscious Princess, however, as she was trapped low in the rear footwell of the car and obscured by her boyfriend's corpse, he told the inquest into her death. He also carried out the post-mortems on young mother Rachel Nickell, murdered on Wimbledon Common in 1992, and Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death in a racial attack a year later. Confirmation of Diana's consciousness was given by the first policeman on the scene, Sebastien Dorzee, who complained of being shoved by photographers as he tried to get her out. Mr Al Fayed believes that Mr Murrell was also turned against him by the security services, the jury has heard. The princess flew to Greece for a long planned break with her good friend Rosa Monckton. The oldest son of former Harrods owner and billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955. LONDON (Reuters) - French medics had to restrain and sedate Princess Diana, who became so agitated after her Paris car crash that she tore out a drip, the inquest into her death was told on Monday. If anyone said that was a complete shambles I would totally agree with them. This happened because Rees-Jones, constantly badgered by the huge personality that is Mohamed Al Fayed, had recollected a dream to the man who paid his wages in which there were snatches of conservation in the seconds after the crash. Diana died on August 31, 1997, after sufferingfatal injuries in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. Dodi Fayed was born in Egypt in 1955 to author Samira Khashoggi and billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed - the former owner of Harrods, a luxury department store in London.. And a bodyguard. She was agitated she refused treatment, he added. [16], Fayed was originally interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey, but was re-interred on the grounds of the Fayed estate in Oxted, Surrey in October 1997. I did not know what the fight was really about, even though I thought it was really stupid to take those pictures. Trevor cringes at the recollection. Details of Diana's last hours were compiled by two journalists from the magazine L'Express, Jean-Marie Pontaut and Jerome Dupuis, for a book published in France. Wreckage from the Mercedes, he said, was thrown half-way up the tunnel due to the force of the crash. Daniel Eyraud, the surgeon who treated her, said the hemorrhage was discovered only after X-rays. Dodi's Father on Diana's Death. A former dental surgeon turned film-maker, he was watching the rushes of his first feature film when he heard the sound of an accident some time after midnight on August 31 1997. The mob was waiting and Trevor raced to the car's rear door and opened it, ready to block for the couple as they pushed through the revolving doors and inside. Al . [15] Fayed's former spokesman, Michael Cole, has said that the couple became engaged before their deaths. There were cameras everywhere, with a crowd of several hundred jostling at the entrance. Paul was speeding and over the drink-drive limit at the time of the smash. Dr Shepherd was a Home Office pathologist when he was called on to carry out the autopsy on Diana, one of the 23,000 or so he has performed in his career. The Mercedes arrived and Henri Paul stepped towards the car to switch with the driver. He also worked for his father on Harrods' marketing. By this time, he said, paramedics had begun to arrive so he walked back out of the tunnel and returned the mobile phone he had borrowed. Flashbulbs popped when they walked around the back of the car to get to the rear right door, the princess taking huge strides in her delicate high heels, eyes down as Trevor briskly ushered her into the back seat. Trevor believes that Dodi trusted Henri Paul, just as he trusted Dourneau who would drive the decoy car at the front. Mohamed reportedly spends 300 days a year sitting beside his sons body for hours at his lavish mausoleum in the grounds of his mansion in Surrey. Rumorsmostly from Fayed's father, Mohamed Al-Fayedwere circulating that Diana was. I remember hearing somebody moaning and the name Dodi being muttered but I don't know if it was once or several times. She later returned to the ship in August without her sons and a photo of the pair kissing made headlines around the world. Popular Netflix show cancelled after just one series - leaving fans gutted, Im 92 but still rock minidresses - I've got a 2 secret to looking young, Baby among 6 festival-goers sliced to death by glass-encrusted kite strings, Thousands of British Gas customers to get 250 help with energy bills, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Diana and Dodi Fayed died in Paris in the early hours of August 31, . His experience also includes working on the terror attacks on 9/11, in Bali in 2002 and the London 7/7 bombings in 2005. T he sole survivor of the crash which claimed the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed, has finally decided to speak. "I remember I. Suddenly, for Trevor at least, the action stopped on August 15. Cause of death: Traffic collision: Resting place: Fayed Estate, Oxted . He lifted her head to see if she was alive and heard her moaning. One time we talked about the film Men in Black which she'd taken the boys to see. He added: "Trevor Rees-Jones remembers getting into the Mercedes in the Rue Cambon and the car driving off. Mr Rees replied: "He had no part at all.". "I saw a broken leg that I remember clearly of a man in blue jeans - I guess with a double fracture under the knee - and a boot, a cowboy boot," he said. It was such an embarrassingly sterile environment. Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. Trevor was at the back entrance and looked out. They needed a two car convoy. The sole survivor of the crash which claimed the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed, has finally decided to speak. Now, their relationship . Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? The bodyguards said they would have to report this to London but Henri Paul told Kez, ``It's been okayed by Mr Mohamed,'' Kez remains sure of this phrase ``Mr Mohamed'' standing out from the ubiquitous ``the Boss'' of the lads. Dodi Fayed was a 42-year-old man/child with a lavish monthly allowanceby most accounts $100,000. I saw the two airbags were open. Her death prompted an unprecedented. The inquest is expected to last up to six months and cost up to 10 million pounds ($20.9 million). ``I was absolutely gobsmacked when I found out that they'd been alone on holiday together.'' Speaking to The Times magazine, Camilla Fayed, who was 12 when the tragic event took place in Paris on August 31, 1997, said it is impossible to move on. Princess Diana's death in Paris 24 years ago sparked a wave of conspiracy theories, egged on by the father of her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, who died alongside her. [19], The memorials were designed by 80-year-old Bill Mitchell, a close friend of Dodi's father and architect for Harrods for more than 40 years. Trevor heard the princess express her concern that one might fall under the wheels and be killed. ``We'll be leaving from the back of the hotel with just one car. THE pathologist who examined Princess Diana's body has revealed some of the burning questions he is often asked about her death. If there was no engagement then there was no conspiracy and no murder and Fayed's theories of sinister state craft, fuelled by disbelief that the incalculable loss of a beloved son was merely an accident of negligence, fail any test of plausibility. Before this tragic end, he was launched into the spotlight in the summer of 1997 when he started dating Diana. I do not remember if the motorbikes followed us, but I do know that journalists were following us.'' Police, ambulance attendants and doctors implicitly contradicted claims by Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father, that Diana was able to talk when she reached a hospital more than 1{ hours after her chauffeur-driven Mercedes ran into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont Alma on Aug. 31. Dr. Richard Shepherd is the top forensic pathologist in the UK, and he investigated the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. It also proves that events were totally out of control from the moment the most famous woman in the world entered the Fayed circle and that the drunken, drugged up driver Henri Paul was merely the final deadly piece of a chaotic jigsaw. The first thing he saw, he said, was the smoking wreckage of the car in the middle of the road. '', They were followed by journalists but Trevor had asked them not to take any photos during the journey, especially at traffic lights and junctions. At 11.40pm on that last night Trevor and Kez were at the door of the suite. 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