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Article: Owner of white Fiat Uno refuses to give evidence at Diana inquest; 'GLANCING BLOW': A computer simulation of how the crash might have happened SILENT WITNESS: Le Van Thanh in 1999 with his resprayed Fiat Uno.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2007
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Byline: Dennis Rice, Peter Allen
A KEY witness to the car crash that claimed the lives of Princess Dianaand Dodi Fayed has rejected repeated requests from British detectives to giveevidence at next month's inquest into their deaths.
Le Van Thanh, a Parisian taxi driver, owned a white Fiat Uno identical to theone that struck Diana's Mercedes seconds before it smashed into a concretepillar.
The coroner, Lord Justice Scott- Baker, believes he holds crucial informationabout what took place in the Alma tunnel ten years ago.
But despite officers from the Metropolitan Police's Operation Paget making morethan one formal approach to Le Van ...