LONDON (AFP) - British police on Monday, Dec 16, 2013, said they had finished examining new information about the 1997 death of Diana, princess of Wales, but media reported they had found "no credible evidence" she was murdered.
Scotland Yard police headquarters announced in August it was checking the credibility of recently received information about the deaths of the princess and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, including an allegation that she was murdered by a British military figure.
"The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) undertook a scoping exercise to assess the relevance and credibility of that information," the force said in a statement issued on Monday.
"That scoping exercise is now complete," it stated, adding that a formal statement would be made on Tuesday.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley has provided all involved parties with a summary report of the probe.
Diana and Mr Fayed were killed in a car crash in a Paris underpass in the early hours of August 31, 1997, along with their driver Henri Paul.
It is understood that the claim - that a member of the elite British army regiment Special Air Service (SAS) was involved - was made by the former parents-in-law of a former soldier, based on information he had talked about in the past.
Sky News, which has obtained a copy of the letter, reported that the investigation found "no credible evidence" that the SAS was involved.
"Whilst there is a possibility that the alleged comments in relation to the SAS's involvement in the death may have been made, there is no credible or relevant evidence to support a theory that such claims had any basis in fact," the network reported the letter as saying.
"Having reviewed the exercise and its findings, I am satisfied that there is no evidential basis upon which therefore to reopen any criminal homicide investigation or refer the matter back to the coroner," it added.
Operation Paget was the name of the two-year police inquiry into the numerous conspiracy theories surrounding the crash.
Led by Mr John Stevens, formerly Britain's top policeman, it concluded in 2006 that all the allegations it assessed were without foundation.
It rejected the murder claims voiced by some, including Mr Fayed's father, the Egyptian tycoon Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Mr Dodi Fayed, 42, and driver Paul - the deputy head of security at Mr Al-Fayed's plush Hotel Ritz in Paris - were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
The Mercedes-Benz car had smashed into a pillar and spun around.
Diana, 36, the former wife of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and the mother of Princes William and Prince Harry, died later in hospital.
Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Al-Fayed family's protection team, survived.
Seeking to outrun chasing paparazzi photographers, Paul was found to have been speeding. His blood alcohol level was found to have been more than three times over the French limit.
Diana married Charles in 1981 but their shaky marriage fell apart soon after Harry's birth in 1984, with both sides admitting adultery. They separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.
