The phone hacking scandal in Britain has reached princess Diana after it was revealed that her former lover’s phone had been hacked months before an inquiry into her death in 2008.
British police contacted Princess of Wale’s former lover, Hasnat Khan, and informed him that his name and mobile telephone number were found in paperwork discovered during their investigation into the phone-hacking scandal.
“To know that someone has been listening to your private messages is awful. It is absolutely terrible. It feels as if you have been robbed. We live in the UK. We are supposed to have civil liberties. I feel really, really violated. I am very angry,” said Khan in an interview with MailOnline
Princess Diana dated the 53-year-old heart surgeon, whom she called “Mr Wonderful,” for almost two years after she and Prince Charles divorced.
Khan refused to give direct evidence to the Diana inquest in 2008. However, the jury had heard his full statement given to British police in 2004.
In 1997, Princess Diana died in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. It was alleged that the British intelligence agency MI6 had planned the crash. Nevertheless, an inquest into Diana’s death, which started in 2004 and continued in 2007-8, showed the accident has been caused by negligent driving.
——Agencies