Key Diana witness fails to appear

Published: Oct. 18, 2007 at 1:25 AM

LONDON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- It was rumored Princess Diana was about to reveal she was pregnant or getting engaged to boyfriend Dodi Fayed the night she died, an inquest was told Wednesday.

Photographer Thierry Orban said he was home in Paris when he received a call from his chief editor asking him to go to the hotel specifically because news was expected, The Scotsman reported.

"He told me that there were rumors of an announcement that Lady Diana was getting married or having a baby and asked me to go to the Ritz Hotel," he said in a statement read to the inquest panel.

Meanwhile, a key witness to the crash that killed the princess of Wales and Fayed. failed to appear at the couple's inquest.

The Times of London said Souad Moufakkir is one of only two witnesses who claim to have seen the 1997 crash in a Paris underpass. She was supposed to appear in a Paris courthouse to give evidence over a video link, the newspaper said Wednesday.

Lord Justice Scott Baker, the coroner, has asked French officials to track her down.

Moufakkir told French police shortly after the crash that she saw the accident in the Alma tunnel.

© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Order reprints



Additional News Stories
UPI NewsTrack Sports (12 min)
NBA: Memphis 98, Dallas 82 (30 min)
UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday, Dec. 5 (31 min)
COL BKB: Texas A&M 74, Akron 62 (32 min)
NBA: Toronto 109, Washington 107 (OT) (33 min)
NBA: New York 114, Atlanta 107 (35 min)
NHL: New Jersey 3, Tampa Bay 2
fark
"Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911,...
For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great...
Great White begins Russian leg of new tour
Five children go 11 days without food while mother makes no effort to look for job: "We were supposed...
Comcast may kill NBC, but cable will never kill Tom Brokaw
Be vewy quiet, we're hunting mugshots