The new coroner hearing the inquests into the deaths of Britain’s Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed has formally taken up the post.
Lord Justice Scott Baker, one of the country’s most senior judges, has taken over on the high-profile case from Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, who quit in April.
Lady Butler-Sloss - who was appointed after the previous royal coroner, Michael Burgess quit - resigned from the role as she claimed she didn’t have the experience of juries to handle the case.
Lord Justice Baker will oversee his first preliminary hearing at London’s High Court tomorrow (13.06.07).
His appointment is the third in less than a year causing people to claim it’s made a mockery of the inquest.
The inquest, which was opened and adjourned in 2004, has yet to start in full nearly 10 years after Diana and Dodi were killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, have previously called for a swift resolution as they prepare to mark the 10th anniversary of their mother’s death. Dodi’s father, Mohammad, has always insisted the pair were murdered in a plot engineered by the British Royal Family and has tirelessly campaigned for an inquest to prove his theory.
After the accident, Lord Stevens’ three-year investigation found no evidence of a murder plot and ruled that the pair were killed by accident by their drunk driver Henri Paul.
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