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...CHANGING OF THE GUARDS On April 20, Trevor Rees-Jones quit his $37,000-a-year job with Mohammed al Fayed's security force, saying he had to "move forward" with his life. Fellow bodyguard Alexander ("Kes") Wingfield followed suit in June. Since then, the two bodyguards and their lawyers have adopted a more aggressive stance toward the Ritz-Fayed side, giving the impression that Rees-Jones, a civil plaintiff in the investigation, may be preparing a damage suit against al Fayed's hotel...
...manager of Etoile Limousine. The lawyer's move could lead the judge to widen the probe and put Ritz and Etoile officials under formal criminal investigation along with the paparazzi. Though Rees-Jones' amnesia makes it difficult for him to testify, he has a powerful ally in Wingfield. On July 3, at his own initiative, Wingfield met with Stephan and delivered a potentially incriminating account of the role of al Fayed's organization. Though he made no mention of this in his initial testimony of Sept. 2, 1997, Wingfield now claims that he considered the security arrangements inadequate that night...
...bodyguard further claims that he protested against the single-car, rear-door getaway scheme but that Dodi had told him, "I just spoke to my father on the phone. He approved the plan." Wingfield also told the judge that he had quit because Mohammed al Fayed was pressing him to support his conspiracy theories. Al Fayed has turned angrily against the two men, whom he now blames for losing his son and Diana. "I am not on good terms with them," he told TIME. "I didn't want them to leave, because the investigation is still running and I need...
...lawyers very busy. The official crash investigation is far from over, and investigators will soon be hearing from the manager of the Paris Ritz. Trevor Rees-Jones is considering a suit against Mercedes-Benz over airbags that may have exploded too early. And fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield is to take Mohammed Al-Fayed to an industrial tribunal next week, claiming he asked Wingfield to back up his views that Di and Dodi died at the hands of a conspiracy -- and forced him to quit when he wouldn...
...Ironically, Al-Fayed is no longer blaming British intelligence for the crash -- he's decided Rees-Jones and Wingfield are responsible. The Harrods boss blasted his former bodyguards in an exclusive interview with TIME: "They are the people who caused the devastation and the accident through their incompetence and unprofessional practices," he says. Should security practice at the Ritz become the center of the investigation, Al-Fayed's about-face may turn out to be a bid to find culprits who, conveniently, no longer work for him. It's not hard to wonder what Diana would think of these legal...