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Mohamed Al Fayed kept a close interest in Operation Paget's progress. Once a month, Lord Stevens or another senior member of the Paget team would meet him or his staff to provide an update. On a number of these occasions Al Fayed attempted to ply the chief investigator with gifts.
At one of their first meetings, at Harrods, he presented Stevens with a plastic bag containing a pair of fresh stag's testicles, culled from the deer herd at his Highland estate. The Commissioner politely declined the present, as he did others offered by the tycoon — such as pills which Al Fayed claimed to be Viagra. Under the year rule, it will not be available for public examination until The location of the original Burrell note is not clear to the Paget team.
So what did give Diana cause to write such a note? What was it that led her to have such fears; that ultimately saw the heir to the throne being questioned by two detectives in the St James's Palace drawing room?
Was it the same 'reliable source' whose warnings were passed on to Lord Mishcon by the Princess? Suspicion, not least by Lord Stevens, turns to one man; BBC journalist Martin Bashir and his fraudulent claims — revealed in detail by this newspaper — to successfully persuade Diana to give him an exclusive television interview in November In several hours of interview with the Mail, Stevens made clear his regret that he and his Operation Paget team did not interview Bashir about his dealings with Diana in that period.
My goodness me, we would have done,' he said. If we'd known at the time of Paget we would certainly have gone and seen him and interviewed him. He added: 'We don't know what Bashir was saying to Diana. What we didn't know, of course, was how Bashir had managed to get it. Stevens confirmed that Paget did not interview Diana's brother, Earl Spencer. He told us: 'We weren't investigating the family and we didn't see Earl Spencer because of that. We got everything we needed from them. As revealed by the Mail, Earl Spencer alleges Bashir showed him fake bank statements to clinch an introduction to the Princess before his scoop interview.
And the Earl accused the rogue journalist, who recently resigned as BBC religious affairs editor, of making slanderous claims about senior royals as part of a 'web of deceit'.
He rejected the BBC's offer to take part in an inquiry into the allegations, saying he had no faith in its ability to investigate the alleged wrongdoing robustly or fairly.
So what did give Diana pictured cause to write such a note? What was it that led her to have such fears; that ultimately saw the heir to the throne being questioned by two detectives? Stevens said: 'Presumably Bashir would have been in communication with Diana in October , leading up to the November TV interview, directly or possibly through Earl Spencer.
So, at Paget, we just presumed that it was something she had imagined in her darker hours. And we did have witness statements saying she was sometimes likely to have 'wild thoughts' and that may well have been part of it.
Or, did he say something to her through Earl Spencer or other channels that actually fed that paranoia? It may well be that Bashir stumbled across her at a vulnerable time in her life or he may have exacerbated her mental state or he may have generated that paranoia.
But maybe her fears were simply [based on] what Bashir had told her? And if Bashir had not fed lies to Diana, would she have written the note at all? More pertinently, would she have found herself hurtling into a Paris underpass to her death that fateful August night? That is the question we will address on Monday, as witnesses from the night cast dramatic new light on a tragedy that defined an era.
MonSef Dahman works as a surgeon in the French Riviera town of Antibes, that 'billionaires' playground' which once charmed Picasso and F. Scott Fitzgerald and still attracts the Hollywood elite. One of his specialities is treating the obese. Life is good there, his career fulfilling. But there are particular times of year — the last day of August and then again on his son's birthday in November — when his thoughts darken; when they invariably return to an event which not only had a profound 'impact' on him personally but shocked the entire world.
That is because for several hours in the early morning of Sunday, August 31, , Dahman, the then young duty general surgeon in the biggest hospital in France, played a central role in the desperate fight to save the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.
She had been critically injured in a car crash in the centre of Paris earlier that night. He has never spoken to a newspaper about this episode until now. Dahman, 56, also recalled a chilling story of his own experience of the perverse iconography and unscrupulous monetising of the Princess, even after her death.
One of his reasons for speaking now — he received no payment — was to reiterate how, in contradiction to the conspiracy theories which claimed they were somehow part of a murderous plot by the British Establishment, the French emergency medical staff involved that night made every conceivable effort to save Diana. To suggest otherwise — as had been done by Mohamed Al Fayed and several lurid foreign magazines, among others — caused both bemusement and hurt. A Parisian by birth, Dahman would not have been in his home city, let alone on duty, that night were he not about to become a father for second time.
Every August the French capital empties of those citizens who can afford to spend a month in the country or by the sea. If it were not for foreign tourists, the City of Light would be a ghost town. As a result, I worked all summer. And work he did — long, long hours like the junior doctors and surgeons in our own NHS. His shift that weekend had started at 8am on Saturday.
He was still on duty at 2am the following morning, 'though of course it was not continuous activity. I did have moments of rest. In fact, if I remember correctly, it was a pretty easy day.
I didn't have to deal with anything too difficult. That would change — dramatically. The Mercedes in which Diana was travelling crashed in the Alma tunnel at approximately Owing to the severity of her resulting injuries, she received lengthy treatment by doctors at the scene.
She then suffered a cardiac arrest while being moved to an ambulance. After being revived, she was transported by that ambulance to Dahman's hospital. She arrived there at 2. On August 31, , Dahman played a central role in the desperate fight to save the life of Diana, who had been critically injured in a car crash in the centre of Paris pictured.
So when you got a call from [such] a high-level colleague that meant the case was particularly serious. And then I realised the true seriousness of things. He recalls: 'My intern [his junior assistant] was in the room. But she was in a corner because she was a little overwhelmed by the gravity of the moment. And he was personally taking care of a lady who was lying on a stretcher, with a lot going on around her.
Dahman, 33 at the time, was then informed that the unconscious figure on the stretcher was no less than Diana, Princess of Wales.
But of course even more so if she is a princess. He was unwilling to describe certain aspects of the treatment she received at his hands, for reasons of patient confidentiality. The Mail has also chosen to excise certain details presented to the official inquiries into her death, but it is important to make clear how hard the team fought to save her life, and how desperate the circumstances.
Diana had been X-rayed on arrival at hospital. The resulting images of her chest showed she was suffering 'very serious internal bleeding'. As a result, she underwent a thoracic drain — excess fluid being removed from her chest cavity. But haemorrhaging persisted and Diana was receiving transfusions of O-negative blood held in the emergency room, as her blood group had not yet been established. At around 2. The situation had grown more critical. More extreme intervention was needed.
As she underwent external heart massage, Riou asked Dahman to perform a surgical procedure. He was to do so while Diana was still lying on the stretcher in the emergency room. This circumstance was 'truly exceptional' and an indication of how parlous her situation had become. As a result of this intervention, Dahman discovered that Diana had suffered a significant tear in her pericardium, which protects the heart.
The prognosis worsened. It was now 2. A miracle was needed. Dahman and Riou were joined in the emergency room by Professor Alain Pavie, perhaps France's top heart surgeon. He had been summoned from his bed at home. If anyone could save her, it was him.
Dahman, 56, also recalled a chilling story of his own experience of the perverse iconography and unscrupulous monetising of the Princess pictured in Paris , even after her death. Initially, I had been told that Dodi and Diana would travel without security and I said this would not happen, that I would travel in the vehicle with them. It will be so easy if I do remember. Less than five minutes after leaving the hotel, the crash happened. He suffered severe brain and chest trauma, spent 10 days in a coma and every bone in his face was broken.
Surgeons literally rebuilt his face using old photos as a guide and pieces of titanium. Part of the back of his skull was used to rebuild his cheekbones. Speaking in a TV interview in , surgeon Luc Chikhani said he had never seen someone still alive who had so many broken bones.
We had to completely rebuild it. The eyes were apart, the nose was smashed and the jaw was broken. Mr Rees then moved back to Shropshire to be looked after by his mum Gill and stepfather, taking a job in a local sports shop. In , Mr Rees married his second wife, a teacher named Ann Scott.
Trevor recovered well enough to turn out for a local rugby team in North Wales and set up a business as a security consultant. In , he worked in war-torn Iraq before he was called to give evidence at the inquest, his face still deeply scarred more than a decade on. He told the coroner he had vague memories of a motorbike alongside the vehicle, and a woman's voice calling out "Dodi" but he was not sure if they were real memories. Trevor said: "I am not part of a conspiracy to suppress the truth at all.
All I have ever done is give the truth as I see it. In , Diana's former police protection officer Ken Wharfe blamed Trevor for letting the princess get into the Mercedes. Jump directly to the content. Here is what we know about him and where he is now. Read our Princess Diana live blog for the latest updates. When he was ten, the family moved to Oswestry, Shropshire, and he went to Fitzalan School where he met his future wife Sue Jones.
In , he went to work as a private security guard for Harrods owner Mohammed al-Fayed, father to Dodi Fayed, and later the People's Princess. It was in his security job for al-Fayed that Trevor came to be guarding al-Fayed's playboy son Dodi , and later his girlfriend Princess Diana.
The bodyguard later rubbished claims by his former boss that Dodi and Diana had chosen an engagement ring together in Monte Carlo a week before they died in Paris. They intended to stay at the Ritz hotel owned by Dodi's father, but found themselves besieged by paparazzi.
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