Missing box could hold clues into Diana's death

Published on Monday 31 May 2010 20:33

DIANA, Princess of Wales was killed because she planned to expose senior members of the British arms trade involved with land mines, a leading lawyer claimed today.

Michael Mansfield, QC, who represented Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the death of his son Dodi and the former royal, said Diana claimed she had an "exposure diary" in which she was going to unmask the people most closely involved with the British manufacturing of land mines.

He told readers at a literary festival yesterday: "I think everyone remembers she raised the profile of the land mines.

"Everybody is aware that the British involvement in the arms trade, particularly land mines, is and was a huge vested interest.

"It seems to me she had planned visits. She had already been to Angola, she was going to Cambodia later in the year.

"She was going to set up an institute for the victims of the land mines that had been exploded."

He added: "A large number of land mines had been manufactured by the British and a witness who knew her well claimed, that she had an exposure diary in which she was going to expose the people most closely involved in the British arms trade."

Mr Mansfield, who was speaking at the Hay festival in Wales, said there was a missing box of papers which could contain crucial information.

He said: "Nobody really knows what was in it. The box exists, but when it was opened there was nothing in it."