Diana, Princess of Wales was killed because she planned to expose senior members of the British arms trade involved with land mines, a leading lawyer claimed today.
Michael Mansfield QC, who represented Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the death of his son Dodi and the former royal, said Diana claimed she had an “exposure diary” in which she was going to unmask the people most closely involved with the British manufacturing of land mines.
He told the Hay Festival in mid Wales: “I think everyone remembers she raised the profile of the land mines.
I don’t have a problem with a senior, respected, lawyer making serious allegations of this nature – provided he has proof. I read the article carefully. I can see no proof in that article. Perhaps Mr Mansfield QC will be making further revelations?
Did I see that he made this statement at Hay? Is that not a book selling festival? Didn’t Mansfield have a biography out recently?
He was flogging his “Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer” at Edinburgh Book Festival last year, where most of the talk revolved around the recent release of the Lockerbie Bomber. I wonder if he’s book touring for that book still, or if he has another out?
Is he pitching to be the next editor of the Daily Express?
Jennie: maybe this is the paperback edition? Hence using more populist claims to promote it…? 😉