This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It will not be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7264956.stm
The article has changed 4 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 0 | Version 1 |
|---|---|
| MI6 'did not keep files on Diana' | MI6 'did not keep files on Diana' |
| (10 minutes later) | |
| MI6 were not keeping files on Princess Diana or Dodi Al Fayed, the inquest into their deaths has heard. | MI6 were not keeping files on Princess Diana or Dodi Al Fayed, the inquest into their deaths has heard. |
| A female MI6 manager, named only as Miss X, told the High Court that searches she made of an electronic database found no information on them. | A female MI6 manager, named only as Miss X, told the High Court that searches she made of an electronic database found no information on them. |
| The hearing was cleared of all those not directly involved, in order to protect the identity of the witness. | |
| Last week the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, denied the intelligence service murdered Diana. | |
| Miss X said the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) - known as MI6 - kept a card on Dodi Al Fayed's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, but nothing more detailed than that. | |
| 'No plan' | |
| Ian Burnett QC, counsel for the coroner, asked Miss X about Diana and the princess's boyfriend Dodi: "No cards for either and no files for either?" | |
| She replied: "Absolutely correct." | |
| Mr Burnett asked: "If for the sake of argument there had been any plan at all involving Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed would that have been drawn up by your searches?" | |
| "Yes, there was absolutely no plan whatsoever," Miss X responded. | |
| Mohamed Al Fayed claims the crash, in which Diana, Dodi and their driver Henri Paul died, was part of a murder plot by MI6 and the Duke of Edinburgh. | |
| The hearing continues. |