Horwell: "Can you tell us why James Andanson took his dog on this criminal enterprise?"
Fayed: "Well, it's his own car and he chose to use his own car."
As for the motive, the British establishment did not want Diana to marry a Muslim and had discovered she was pregnant.
`BALONEY'
The fact that she had just ended a two-year relationship with the Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan and had emerged unscathed: "All this baloney. It was just a casual relation with this guy, a friend but nothing serious. You cannot say marry someone like that, lives in a council flat and has no money. How do you think a guy like that can support her?"
Horwell: "She could not possibly marry a man on the income of a surgeon?"
Fayed: "Why you ask such silly questions? What you are saying is just bullshit."
The conspiracy was all the more remarkable, counsel suggested, because the news that Diana and Dodi were going to get engaged and that she was pregnant was only disclosed in a single phone call to Fayed an hour before the crash.
Horwell: "Do you ever pay any attention to the evidence? The answer to my question is no. All you are interested in is your assumptions. This inquest is being held in part for your benefit."
Fayed: "What you want to prove? You are talking absolute rubbish."
Horwell: "This elaborate conspiracy has minutes to be formed and put into operation."
"No. They knew what they had been discussing," Fayed said.
"It's proved, there are dark forces. My version is the right version because [I] don't take any garbage from anybody who can pretend they are important ... It's just a great tragedy that they don't let her to be happy and enjoy her life," he said.
Horwell did extract one admission: Fayed said he would accept the jury's verdict, expected in April.
The coroner said: "Do you think there is any possibility, however remote, that your beliefs about conspiracies may be wrong and that the deaths of Dodi and Diana were in truth no more than a tragic accident?"
Fayed: "No way. I am 100 percent certain."
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