Witness describes fight at Diana crash scene

By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Last Updated: 5:51pm BST 16/10/2007

One of the first people to arrive at the scene of the car crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales, has given his first public account of the carnage he witnessed.
James Huth said he could not see the princess in the wrecked Mercedes because she was trapped on the floor behind the front seats, with the body of her lover, Dodi Fayed, on top of her.

Mr Huth told the inquest into their deaths that it was clear that Mr Fayed and Henri Paul, the driver, were dead, but Trevor Rees-Jones, a body¬guard, was conscious and "panicking" in the front passenger seat.

The witness also told the jury at the Royal Courts of Justice in London that he saw a paparazzo fighting with a member of the public who was trying to stop him taking pictures in the minutes before the emergency services arrived.

The princess was alive, but fatally injured when Mr Huth, a film-maker, reached the car, which crashed in the Alma underpass in Paris about 12.26am on Aug 31, 1997.

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