Diana Verdict

Apologies in advance for any ranting I put in here :-) It's directed at old men and overenthusiastic press people.

We had the Diana coroner verdict announced yesterday and the conclusion they reached was "unlawfully killed due to 'gross negligence' of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi." More from the BBC here ... It's confirmed a few things that we've known for over 10 years :

The driver of the car was driving under the influence of alcohol
The passengers were content to be driven by him
The only person to survive was the only one wearing a seatbelt
Paparazzi are ... ... ... ... ... ... swine.
(had to delete a few words from the paparazzi bit or I'd have broken my record for swearing in a post - insert nasty words and curses as you see fit)

I'm hoping that the verdict will put to bed the various conspiracy theories that surround Diana. The memories that we used to have of Diana surrounded the good things she got up to while she was alive. Those are steadily getting replaced by the stories that have cropped up since that crash. Even though I wasn't a Diana fan when she was around, any hostility I felt has well and truly been replaced by sympathy driven by how the conspiracy people are masking the good things.

There's a little more than the coroner's inquest at work with Diana though. There's also the two men who have taken grievous advantage of the confidence shown in them by our former Princess. To his credit, one of those two men has stayed quiet lately. The other one is helping to fuel the conspiracy theories, with the inquest judge telling the jury that it was "blindingly obvious" that he had lied to them.

It's not often I feel the need for a rant but the conspiracy theorists have drawn one out of me this time ... It's been over ten years since Diana died and the nation showed how much she was loved when it happened. The latest investigation to report confirmed what we already knew from the previous inquests.

Time to let the poor girl rest.