Top Brit cops to be questioned over hiding evidence of Diana’s car crash

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Two of Britain’s leading former police officers are to be interrogated over allegations that they withheld crucial evidence about the car crash which killed Princess Diana.

A French judge wants to ask ex-Yard chief Lord Condon and Sir David Veness why they failed to disclose the existence of a note in which she had predicted her assassination.

They could face international arrest warrants as suspects if they refuse to attend interviews in Paris, sources close to the investigation indicated last night.

“The French courts will not allow this matter to rest and it is understood that if Lord Condon and Sir David refuse to attend Paris for an interview then Judge Caddeo will not hesitate to issue international warrants of arrest,” the Daily Express quoted a source as saying.

The note, taken by Diana’s lawyer Lord Mishcon, was handed to the officers a few months after the 1997 Paris tunnel crash, which also claimed the lives of the princess’s boyfriend Dodi Fayed, son of tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed, and the pair’s chauffeur Henri Paul.

The highly-respected lawyer’s document reads: “Efforts would be made if not to get rid of her (be it by some accident in her car, such as a pre-prepared brake failure or whatever)...at least to see that she was so injured or damaged as to be declared unbalanced.”

It emerged that the officers had locked the note in Condon’s safe at Scotland Yard.

When Lord Condon stood down as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner his successor as Met Commissioner, Lord Stevens, continued to keep its existence a secret.

But Lord Condon refused to comment in detail on the letter.