Diana's death left tabloid editor feeling responsible

Published on Tuesday 21 August 2007 12:15

THE editor of a tabloid newspaper said he felt "huge responsibility" for the accident that killed Diana, Princess of Wales.

Former News of the World editor Phil Hall said: "I felt huge responsibility for what happened and I think everyone in the media did."

He said: "It's difficult because we knew the full story, we knew that Diana was helping newspapers and yeah, the driver was drunk.

"But my view is that if the paparazzi hadn't been following her the car wouldn't have been speeding and, you know, the accident may never have happened."

He was speaking in a TV documentary to be screened tomorrow.

The programme claims to tell the "definitive story of Diana's love-hate relationship with the photographers who followed her every move", right up to the night of her death.

It includes interviews and pictures from the photographers who followed her before the crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel and her former security chief Ken Wharfe.