The procedures used by French medical experts to collect samples from the body of Princess Diana’s chauffeur suffered “inconsistencies”, the inquest into her death was told on Monday by a leading British toxicologist.<\/p>\n
French and British police investigations have both concluded that Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed died in a high-speed Paris car crash because chauffeur Henri Paul was drunk.<\/p>\n
But Dodi’s father, luxury storeowner Mohamed al-Fayed, alleges that her son and Diana were killed by British security services on the orders of Prince Philip.<\/p>\n
He has also questioned the results of the tests taken on Henri Paul’s body after his death.<\/p>\n
Professor Robert Forrest, who reviewed all the medical reports into Paul’s death, ran through them again in meticulous detail for lawyers at the inquest.<\/p>\n
The court was told that important blood samples from Paul were originally thought to have come from the heart but in fact came from his chest cavity, a much less reliable measure.<\/p>\n
Forrest said Dr Gilbert Pepin, responsible for the French toxicology tests, believed they were heart samples.<\/p>\n
“I was there when Dr Pepin was told it was not cardiac blood, it was chest cavity blood. I still have a vivid recollection of the way that his face changed when he was told. He looked surprised,” Forrest told the court.<\/p>\n
There was also confusion over just how many samples of blood were taken and when exactly they were taken.<\/p>\n
“There are unresolved incompatibilities — inconsistencies I should say rather than incompatibilities,” Forrest said.<\/p>\n
He told the court: “The interpretation of samples is only as good as the samples themselves,” he told the court.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t matter how sophisticated the analysis is, if you don’t have good material to work with, you have to qualify the interpretation of the data your laboratory generates,” he said.<\/p>\n
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