British police on Saturday said they were examining the "relevance and credibility" of recently received new information about the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed. It was "not a re-investigation" into the deaths of the couple, who were killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 along with their driver, Henri Paul, Scotland Yard said.
It said it is "scoping" the details and "assessing relevance and credibility" of the information, BBC reported. The assessment would be carried out by officers from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command, the Metropolitan police said. The assessment did not come under Operation Paget - the police inquiry which investigated allegations that Diana and Dodi were murdered, a theory endorsed by Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed.
In December 2006, the Operation Paget report said it had found no evidence that the couple were murdered. An inquest in 2008 found they were unlawfully killed due to the "gross negligence" of their driver. The Metropolitan Police said the deaths "were thoroughly investigated, and examined" by the inquest held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Fayed, the son of Egyptian tycoon Mohamed Al-Fayed, was pronounced dead at the scene while Diana, the ex-wife of Prince Charles, died later in a hospital. Diana married Charles in 1981 but their marriage fell apart soon after the births of the two princes - Princes William and Harry. They separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.
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