Henri Paul's "cooked" blood samples

 The controversial 'test results' which
apparently showed Henri Paul had been drinking before the crash which
killed Diana, Princess of Wales may have been "cooked," a leading
expert told the inquest on 31 January.

Professor Atholl
Johnston, a clinical pharmacologist, stated quite clearly that the
almost identical results from samples taken from different parts of Mr
Paul’s body raised suspicions. The Barts professor also said a blood
sample which appeared to show Mr Paul had been drinking was probably
“someone else’s”.

The jury heard that 'tests' on two samples
said to be of Mr Paul’s blood, gave alcohol concentration readings of
1.74 and 1.75 grammes per litre. But a sample of vitreous humour
(eyeball fluid) which was tested by 'independent expert' Dr Gilbert
Pepin gave a reading of 1.73g/l. Such levels, if accurate, would have
made Mr Paul three times over the French drink drive limit.

Mohamed Al Fayed is convinced that the samples were switched to cover up a conspiracy to murder the Princess and his son Dodi.

Prof
Johnston, who examined the findings for Mr Al Fayed as well as
consulting the discredited Metropolitan Police’s Operation Paget team,
told the court today: “The one (thing) that disturbed me the most in
terms of the alcohol is this close agreement of 173, 174 or 175. Any
analyst I’ve suggested that that is probable to just went ’What?’.”

He
said he calculated that the probability of getting three results so
closely correlated in three different samples was one in 10,000. And in
a moment of very evident shock, Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker asked: “What are you suggesting, that that suggests to you that the results had been cooked?”


Prof Johnston replied: “That would be my interpretation. We
have already seen that ... Dr Pepin has used the facilities to alter
the results on at least one sample we know, where he has recalculated
it to get closer to what he got originally.”


The jury also heard evidence that the blood samples contained high
levels of carboxyhaemoglobin (20.7 per cent and 12.8 per cent), which
indicates Carbon Monoxide exposure. But experts have told the jury that
the highest level in particular would have left Henri Paul suffering
severe headaches. No credible explanation has yet been found for the
implausibly high concentrations.

And Professor Johnston rejected
the possibility that this was just the result of a measuring glitch. He
said: “The most likely explanation is that it isn’t Henri Paul’s
blood.” Pressed on the suggestion that the French lab had tampered with
the results to make them fit, he said: “I can’t say anything of the
sort. I just don’t know, this is what the jury have to make up their
minds about.”

His testimony has proved to be the most
devastating day yet at the Inquest for the British Establishment as
their 'accident theory' is progressively taken apart at the seams.