Burrell the Butler is Back

Diana & Butler Burrell

“I told the truth as far as I could - but I didn't tell the whole truth. Perjury is not a nice thing to have to contemplate. I was very naughty and I made a couple of red herrings, and I couldn't help doing it.”

Is Mr Burrell saving it for his sequel?

Scott Baker LJ has catapulted that and the butler will be in contempt if he does not now comply with the order to return and explain himself. Silly man, Mr Burrell but will anyone believe his new evidence if he does reveal his "secrets"? Does he have any "secrets" to reveal? Or, is he just addicted to the fame which comes with the fact that he pretends to have "secrets" to reveal?

Again, I applaud Scott Baker LJ for sensible case management. The establishment figures who wanted the matter withdrawn from the jury ought, if they had any registerable IQs, to be joining in that applause.

Sensible Judge Lets The Diana Inquest Farce Continue

Scott Baker LJ

“These inquests, which are an inquiry into two deaths, are being heard by a jury following the decision of the Divisional Court, and they will continue to be heard by the jury, which in due course will return its verdicts,” the coroner told the hearings in the presence of the jury. “I remind everyone, as I have before, that the jury decides the case on the evidence it hears in court and on nothing else. Comments that are made outside the court, often about a limited aspect of the evidence, may render the maker or publisher liable to contempt of court. I again urge great care that nothing is said, written or published that may influence the jury."

Scott Baker LJ made this extremely sensible ruling following rather silly establishment calls to end the Diana inquest farce.

It may have cost a lot of money but imagine what would have happened if the case had been stopped and withdrawn from the jury.

Fayed has said he will abide by the jury's decision. He may not mean it but he has said it and it is on record.

You can be assured that stopping the case at this stage would have given him the green light to pursue his conspiracy theories all the more relentlessly and at ever increasing cost to the taxpayer. He may still do so but we need a jury verdict to have any chance of ending this.

Dearlove Says He Didn't Kill Princess Diana

The problem is that the evidence of Sir Richard Dearlove that MI6 could kill people if it wanted to but never in fact did kill anyone under his watch would be exactly the same (and expressed with the same astonished surprise that anyone should even consider that he may once have stepped on a spider) whether or not he did or did not order Diana's assassination at the behest of the Duke of Edinburgh.