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Princess Diana died after attempts to frighten her into dumping Dodi al Fayed and ending her anti-establishment activities went horribly wrong, a leading lawyer has claimed. Michael Mansfield claimed he was sure Diana's 'killers' had no intention of ending her life in a Paris tunnel in August 1997 and simply wanted to scare her.

But he claimed the operation to torpedo her relationship with Dodi, and silence her planned criticism of the British government over foreign arms sales, backfired spectacularly.

Mr Mansfield, who represented Dodi's father Mohamed al Fayed at the 2007 inquest into Diana's death, said: 'I don't believe anyone wanted to see her dead. 'I think there was a plan to sabotage the relationship and alter her life, to try to stop her activities.

'But this plan went very badly and ended with her death.'

The radical QC, whose long list of famous cases has included the Bloody Sunday inquiry and the Jean Charles de Menezes inquest, has previously claimed Diana's road crash death was no accident. He outlined his views in memoirs published last year on his colourful 40-year career. His latest comments on the tragedy were made during a trip to Barcelona.

A jury concluded Diana had been unlawfully killed in April 2008 after a six-month inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice. It blamed the grossly negligent driving of her chauffeur Henri Paul and chasing paparazzi photographers.

Mohamed al Fayed, who told the inquest Diana was murdered in a conspiracy involving Tony Blair, MI5, MI6 and the British ambassador to France, has always refused to accept the verdict.

In an interview with Catalan daily El Periodico published today, Mr Mansfield said British authorities opposed several aspects of Diana's private and public life. He said: 'I believe the relationship between Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed displeased the authorities. 'In spite of all the work Mohamed al Fayed did for children and hospitals, he was persona non grata in Britain.

'As far as Diana was concerned, she had given interviews attacking the Royal Family for the way they treated her, but I think what most annoyed the authorities was that Diana became very actively involved in the campaign against land mines.

'The UK arms sales industry is huge, it's one of the biggest three in the world.

'The investigation into Diana's death showed she was preparing to denounce British complicity in the sale of weapons to countries that do not respect human rights.'

Mr Mansfield travelled to Barcelona as a member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, a citizens' initiative launched last year in Brussels which aims to reaffirm the primacy of international law as the basis for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The tribunal held its first session in Barcelona earlier this month.

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It's very tragic that she had to die.  I know that everytime I had seen her in interviews or pictures she never seemed quite happy, or that she had a deep dark secret that had to be hidden and she wanted to tell it.  As far as just scaring her well they did that up right didn't they?  They quite literally scared her to her death.  I think Diana knew that reprecussions were coming.  She had made mention that she knew someone was trying to kill her and that it would involve a car.  Proves she was right.  There are a lot of things that happen with governments etc,. that are behind the scenes.  Who knows she just might have been warned previously that she should not be involved in the land mines or with Dodi.  We can only speculate at this point and dragging this out won't bring her back.  It will bring more money for those who want to prove the point at her expense.  I say let the woman rest in peace.  Nothing can save her now and her reputation of her life is all she has left to uphold.