A photographer offered "exclusive" pictures of the gravely-injured Princess Diana to a British tabloid newspaper for 300,000 pounds ($600,000) from the scene of the Paris car crash that killed her 10 years ago, the inquest into the death of Diana and Dodi al Fayed heard Tuesday.
Romuald Rat, a French paparazzi, rang the picture desk of the Sun newspaper in London from the Ponte d'Alma tunnel minutes after the crash, the London inquest was told.
The testimony was given via video link from Paris by Stephane Darmon, a motorcyclist who drove Rat, chasing Diana's car, on the night of Aug 31, 1997.
The inquest also heard part of a television interview with Kenneth Lennox, the Sun's former picture editor to whom the offer was made.
"I didn't waste time. I had to see these pictures, but in principle I said 'yes' to buying them," Lennox said, according to the transcript read to the inquest.
The photographs he received had "jumped off the screen" at him, Lennox said. One showed Diana sitting in the well of the back seat with her back to the open door and a trickle of blood on her face, a second depicted a doctor attending to her with a portable oxygen mask.
The pictures were not published by the Sun at the time.
DPA
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