BURRELL ‘TOOK RING OFF DIANA’S DEAD FINGER’
Princess Diana and Dodi died in 1997
By Nicola McCafferty for express.co.uk
DIANA’s former aide Paul Burrell took an engagement ring off Diana’s dead body while it was still covered in blood, the inquest into her death heard today.
Michael Faux, Burrell’s former bodyguard, made the allegations while giving evidence at the inquest.
Mr Faux told the court that “there was still blood on the ring and [that] he could prove it was her by the DNA.”
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He said he felt “disgusted” with Burrell and he thought it “was not right he had taken it off her finger.”
Mr Faux, who was questioned by Nicholas Hiliard, for the coroner, said Burrell had confessed to him in his car outside a florist shop in Cheshire.
He said Burrell told him that he “took it off the body in Paris.”
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Mr Hiliard then asked: “Did he have any way of demonstrating this was hers?”
Mr Faux replied: “Yes, there was still blood on the ring and he could prove it was her by the DNA.”
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He also claimed that the former royal butler kept documents, including papers note-headed with the Buckingham Palace crest, and burnt them.
Mr Faux, who worked for Burrell for a year until 2003, said Burrell had considered throwing some of the property off the side of a ship in order to get rid of them.
He claims he saw Mr Burrell take “one or two” bin bags with property he had “hidden” at a neighbour’s home in Farndon, Cheshire, and “frantically” burn them in his back garden in November or December 2002.
He told the jury in central London that an anxious Mr Burrell was “upset and virtually crying” when Mr Faux at first refused to sign a confidentiality agreement.
Mr Burrell stressed he “needed him” to sign.
No sooner had he agreed than Mr Burrell told him that he had an engagement ring.
Mr Faux said he was “led to believe” it was Diana’s.
The jury has heard that Diana had received a gold Bulgari friendship ring from lover Dodi Fayed which she wore on her right hand.
There was also a £11,500 Repossi ring, which some claim was an engagement ring, bought in the weeks before the couple died.
But, since the crash, this could be placed either at Dodi’s Paris flat or under the control of his father, Harrods tycoon Mohamed al Fayed, the jury heard.
The now US-based Mr Burrell, who refuses to return to the witness box, rejects Mr Faux’s claims.
In a written statement to the court, Mr Burrell said: “There was no conversation about a ring.
“I have never referred to the Bulgari friendship ring as an engagement ring. This is not my opinion of what the ring was.
“I have never told anybody that I have had possession of that ring. I am not in possession of that ring.”
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed in a fatal car crash in the
Alma tunnel in Paris in 1997. Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed claims the
crash was orchestrated by the MI6 at the bequest of the Duke of
Edinburgh.
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HOW VERY STRANGE
13.05.08, 11:35pm
If this info about the ring was kept hidden for 10 years, what else was that wasn't revealed?
• Posted by: truthwitch • Report Comment
YEAH
02.04.08, 12:56pm
When it was revealed that Paul Burrell had been going through her things, the supposition was (I made it myself) that the butler was collating material for his dream of one day being in print.
It seems obvious now: he could well have been spying.
What the butler saw… he nicked.
And that must have included information. And with whom did he share his ill-gotten gains?
Why did he need to – by his own video admission – need to throw in red herrings? What a shabby way to treat a jury!
AND TO PROTECT WHOM?
• Posted by: Hue_ • Report Comment
BURRELL KNEW VERY WELL THE RELATIONSHIP WAS ENGAGEMENT, MARRIAGE AND BABIES
01.04.08, 3:07pm
Burrell had to join, MI6 linked Rosa Monckton, Kez Wingfield, Trevor Reece-Jones, Lucia Flecha de LIma and the Fellowes and Soames' who were upholding the NO ROMANCE, NO RING, NO EGAGEMENT, NO PREGNANCY which is why he had to hide the Bulgari ring and withhold the evidence , as did Lord Condon and why he has to lie.
Burrell is protecting Charles and Camilla and always has been.
• Posted by: Penny • Report Comment
HER ROCK NICKED HER ROCK
01.04.08, 11:57am
Strange that Diana should have called Burrell 'her rock' (although people have tried to claim the princess called everybody 'her rock') ~ strange that it should come down to 'her rock' (a slang term for a ring, especially an engagement one) being slipped from her dead finger.
NOW WHAT WAS ALL THAT STUFF ABOUT FINGERS AND FRIENDSHIP?
Ah ! ~ I've got it now !
Paul had to remove the ring and then plan to throw it in the sea because…
HE DID NOT WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT DODI AND DIANA WERE FRIENDS.
• Posted by: Hue_ • Report Comment
LISA, DIANA'S MEDOCAL DOSSIER 'DISSAPPEARED' FROM THE PITIE SALPETRIERE HOSPITAL
26.03.08, 11:53am
Lisa, Diana's Medocal dossier 'dissappeared' from the Salpetriere Hospital just as the entire 6,000 page , meter high pile of original files and dossiers, photos and documents of the French Inquest 'dissappeared' from the French High Court.
Many things have been made to ' dissapear'.
Diana's blood test results, her scan results and all treatment she received including the adrenalin doses she was given and when she received it, 'dissappeared' from the Pitie Salpetrere Hospital otherwise known as the 'HOSPITAL OF MANY SECRETS'.
In France it is said that the Official time of Diana's death was much later than the real time of death.
There was cover-up after cover-up to hide more and more lies that were being told in the desperate efrots to make Diana;s very timely and susect death into a mere ' normal road traffic accident'
Had it been a 'normal road traffic accident ' and had Diana not been on the point of announcing her engagement as there was Internaitonal world-wide speculation that Diana was pregnant and about to announce her engagemnt, then NO LIES WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY.
What went on in the Pitie Salptriere Hospital and in the Snail Ambulance ride to that hospital is far from normal .
Since there is no way of showing exactly what medical treatment Diana really received, there is no way of knowing what Paul Burrell would have been permitted to do or not.
Burrell is a liar who is protecting Cahrles and has posed fr al these years as ' DIANA'S ROCK", when in fact he is Charles' rock.
Burrell was ordered to burn Diana's clothes and hide the ring so that a group of people could say there was NO RING, NO ROMANCE, NO ENGAGEMENT and NO PREGNANCY.
Burrell, MI6 linked Rosa Monckton Lawson, Lucia Flecha de Lima, Trevor and Kez, were amongst that group of people to be singing from the same hymn sheet and acking each others stories.
It seems quite clear that Burrell was and is doing as he is told as is Trevor , Kez and the others.
Everything was irregular.
The Hospital was even half closed for decorating and was the furthest from the crash site!
• Posted by: Penny • Report Comment
DON'T BELIEVE IT
26.03.08, 7:00am
I can't believe anyone would believe the garbage that this man is claiming. The hospital would never have allowed Burrell to see Diana with a bloody hand.
Remember that Diana had surgery which means her clothing and jewelry were removed before the surgery and before Burrell saw her. Also, with such a claim why did he wait 10 years and why didn't the family inquire what happenened to the ring when they received a list of Diana's possessions from the hospital?
• Posted by: lisa013143 • Report Comment
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