Al Fayed could be blamed for deaths

As for what the Princess Diana inquest verdict should say, this is a straight health and safety issue. The princess got into a hotel-owned car driven by a drunken employee of the hotel.

Therefore the employers and owners of the hotel are directly responsible for her death. The hotel, its employees and vehicles are a commercial enterprise and subject to regulation. End of story.

If this had happened in the UK and to anyone else the owners of the hotel, car and employer of the driver would be held responsible for the safety of their guests and would be in the dock for manslaughter resulting from breaches in health and safety regulations.

As the owner of the hotel, the car and employer of the driver, Al Fayed is directly responsible for the death of his son and Diana.

Conspiracy nonsense. How could anyone outside the hotel get the princess to change her plans and take an unplanned car journey in a different car and with a different driver? How could anyone except the driver take drink and medication, agree to drive even though he was not employed as a driver? Who could then make him race through a tunnel at high speed?

Paparazzi at fault? No. They wanted a couple of pictures not a pound of flesh. Diana loved the Press attention and used it often to her own advantage.

Great mother? I think not, otherwise she would have been at home with her children and would be alive today. Even a very mediocre mother does not go on TV to expose her marital problems for billions to watch and thereby embarrass her children. Let's bring this nonsense to a close.

Mike Montane, Wellington