As Diana’s household will get set to mark what would have been her sixty fifth birthday this yr after her 1997 automobile smash dying, we are able to reveal Tomlinson is satisfied spies spent 15 years monitoring Di’s each transfer.
He stated they then blasted the inebriated driver of the dying crash automobile, Henri Paul, with a strobe gentle as he sped away from paparazzi to make sure he crashed within the Paris tunnel the place Diana sustained her deadly inside accidents.
And he states the small print of the UK spy company’s plot to kill Diana won’t ever come to gentle – as they’re locked in a file hidden in an MI6 vault.
His revelations will pile ache on royals, together with Prince Harry, 41, who has spoken of his ache his mother was not alive to fulfill his son Archie days after the boy was born.
Tomlinson – who has gone on to work as a pilot in France – stated Diana’s driver Henri Paul disappeared for an hour earlier than he smashed into the concrete thirteenth pillar of the Pont de l’Alma underpass at 121mph.
The Cambridge and MIT-educated agent is satisfied Paul was on MI6’s payroll as one in every of a mass of informers who fed them info on Diana.
However he stated they used the booze-chugging chauffeur as a pawn of their plan to assassinate Diana by feeding the driving force drink earlier than he obtained behind the wheel of the hulking S280 Mercedes with Di, her lover Dodi and their bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones as passengers.
Tomlinson stated: “Regardless of thorough police inquiries, Henri Paul’s whereabouts for an hour haven’t been accounted for.
“I think that he was having a drink along with his MI6 handler, as a big sum of cash was discovered on his physique later that night.
“Examination of his MI6 file would make clear this and would possibly make clear the mysteriously excessive ranges of alcohol and carbon monoxide present in his blood.
“I’m satisfied that there’s info in MI6 information that will be helpful to the inquiry into Diana’s dying, particularly regarding the actions of Henri Paul on the night of his dying.”