Inquest opens into Diana's death

LONDON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- An inquest into the 1997 death of Diana, Britain's Princess of Wales, and her lover Dodi Fayed began Tuesday in London.

Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker began proceedings with multiple legal teams Tuesday to scrutinize the events of August 31, 1997, when the princess, Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul, were killed in a Paris car crash, The Mirror reported. A panel of 11 jurors has been selected for the inquest from a pool of 25 prospective members.

"I'm hoping for justice, I'm a father who lost his son," Mohamed al Fayed, Dodi Fayed's father, said Tuesday.

"I have been fighting for 10 years, at last I want to have justice."

Al Fayed claims Diana was pregnant with his son's child at the time of the crash and the pair were intentionally killed as part of a plot by MI6 and the Duke of Edinburgh.

"I'm certain of what happened, I know they have been murdered," he said.