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Diana killed for anti-mine campaign?

LONDON: Princess Diana feared that she might be “bumped off” by British intelligence agencies because of her campaign against landmines, a friend of the late princess has told the inquest into her death.

Simone Simmons, a “healing” therapist and author of two books about the late princess, claimed that Diana had prepared a thick dossier on the production and distribution of landmines and was about to “name names” that included Britain’s secret service.

“Top of the list of culprits was the Secret Intelligence Service, which she believed was behind the sale of British landmines that were causing so much misery to so many people,” Ms. Simmons said.

She claimed that Diana gave her the dossier, called Profiting out of Misery, which she kept for several months but then destroyed it fearing that “if I had the material I might have been bumped off as well.”

She said that on one occasion, Diana was so frightened that something might happen to her as a result of her high-profile anti-landmines campaign that she sent her a note saying: “If something happens, MI5 or MI6 will have done it.”

Ms. Simmons also claimed that in February 1997, Diana made her listen to a telephone call in which a person was saying “she shouldn’t interfere in matters she knows nothing about” and that “accidents can happen.” Diana went “very pale” after the phone call.

This is not the first time that conspiracy theorists have alleged the involvement of British intelligence agencies in the car crash that killed Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, in Paris in August 1997.

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