Mohamed al Fayed today won a High Court victory over the way the inquests into the deaths of his son Dodi and Diana, princess of Wales are to be conducted.
Mohamed al Fayed speaks to the press outside the High Court in London today
In an unprecedented legal action, Mr al Fayed won a ruling overturning deputy royal coroner Baroness Butler-Sloss's decision that she would sit alone without a jury.
Three senior judges ordered that the coroner hearing the inquest should sit with a jury.
The princess (36) and Dodi Faye (42) died when their Mercedes crashed in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris in 1997 as they sped away from pursuing paparazzi.
Mr al Fayed says he is "certain" Diana and Dodi were murdered.
After hearing the ruling, the Harrods chairman said: "This is not the end of the road, but an important step. The jury must now be allowed to hear the entirety of the evidence, but I fear there will be attempts to keep it from them. If so, that will be yet another battle I will have to fight."
He added: "I have already had to fight for almost 10 years to establish once and for all how they died, why they died, who ordered their murders and who slaughtered them with such awful brutality.
"This is my duty as a father. I shall not fail Diana or Dodi, though the barriers erected against me have been many and formidable."
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