Judge blocks bid for probe into Princess Diana crash

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EDINBURGH (AFP) — A British judge blocked a bid to hold a full public inquiry into the death of Princess Diana and her lover in 1997, rejecting "speculative" claims that the pair were murdered by the British security services.

Egyptian-born businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, father of Diana's lover Dodi, was pursuing a judicial review of a refusal to hold an inquiry in Scotland, where he has a Highland home.

Fayed, the owner of Harrods department store in London and the Paris Ritz hotel in Paris, maintains that British security service agents posing as paparazzi photographers killed the couple.

Diana and Dodi died in an August 1997 car crash in a Parisian underpass, a year after Diana's divorce from Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and the...