Since 1997 it has been claimed that there was an orchestrated criminal conspiracy to end the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Official investigations have found that she died in a manner consistent with media reports following the fatal car crash in a Paris road tunnel on 31 August 1997. A French investigation which reported in early September 1999, concluded that the Princess of Wales died as the result of an accident[1] and a jury, after hearing evidence in the 2007-8 British inquest, found in favour of an "unlawful killing" by driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi pursuing the car.[2] The French investigator, Judge Hervé Stephan, had concluded that the paparazzi were some distance from the couple's Mercedes when it crashed and were not responsible.