Lord Stevens press conference / full transcript

Lord Stevens press conference / full transcript; - We are convinced that the French authorities took all reasonable steps to save the lives of those involved in the accident / We have seen the surgeons and medical staff who worked so hard that night to try to save the lives of those involved in the crash / I believe they did everything humanly possible to do that / Much has been said about the embalming of the body of the Princess of Wales and that this formed some part of the conspiracy / We have found the explanation for this and understand why it was done / Again the details are in the report - It is clear that the Mercedes was travelling at excessive speed as it approached the Alma underpass / Henri Paul had consumed alcohol that evening / After returning to the Ritz Hotel he drank two Ricards in the Bar Vendôme / This alone would have given him an alcohol level near to the French drink/driving limit, which is lower than the limit in this country - When Henri Paul returned, he could not have known he would be driving the Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed later that night / On the CCTV he does appear to be walking round the hotel normally but the tests on the forensic samples taken at both his post-mortem examinations show him to have had an alcohol level of around 1.74 grams per litre at the time of the crash - This is around twice the British drink-drive limit / We are satisfied from the DNA testing carried out on samples in France and by experts in the United Kingdom that those blood samples tested belonged to Henri Paul / Henri Paul had been drinking, but how much he had consumed is questionable / There has also been speculation surrounding the abnormal levels of carboxyhaemoglobin in Henri Paul’s blood / The team, after meticulous research, has identified an explanation for this high reading / This information was shared with Mohamed Al Fayed’s team / It concerns how and from where the sample was taken and we have worked together to find an...