Diana's former butler asked to explain 'lies' at inquest

LONDON: The Coroner at the inquest into the death of Princess Diana has recalled her former butler Paul Burrell to explain inconsistencies in his testimony.
 
Lord Justice Scott Baker has asked the former butler to return to the witness box to explain whether he held back facts and introduced "red herrings" during his evidence at the inquest, following a report in a British tabloid.
 
"The Coroner has asked Mr Burrell to return to court to explain discrepancies between the evidence he gave to the inquest and the material which is contained in the transcripts of the recording taken by The Sun newspaper," the British media quoted a spokesperson for the inquest as saying.
 
'The Sun' recently published transcripts what it claimed was a video footage of Burrell boasting about how he withheld information from the judge during his testimony: "I told the truth as far as I could, but I didn't tell the whole truth. Perjury is not a nice thing to have to contemplate. I was very naughty."
 
In the tape, which the paper said was recorded in New York, Burrell said he was not willing to reveal the entire details of his conversation with the Queen after Diana's death in a Paris car crash in 1997.
 
He had previously claimed the Queen warned him about "dark forces" at work.
 
"The conversation with the Queen was three hours long. I wasn't about to sit there and divulge everything she said to me," Burrell said on the video.
 
However, Burrell's lawyers have called the newspaper report "incomplete, and the result of entrapment".