Princess Diana's Death - new pictures released

It is just seconds after the couple have left the back entrance of the Ritz Hotel on the fatal journey to Dodi's Paris apartment and provides the last known picture of Diana alive.Trevor Rees-Jones, Dodi's bodygaurd and the only survivor of the terrible accident, holds a protective hand up as he peers into the lens. Beside him the driver Henri Paul - accused by police of being drunk - stares twistedly, almost mockingly, at the camera.Taken by one of the paparazzi, the princess is visible in the rear seat peering back at the pursuing French photographers. To her side Dodi Fayed is hunched forward in his seat.A scene of desolation and horror is captured in the seconds after the crash. Passers-by, who included the off-duty Dr Maillez, are seen with policemen, firemen, and the paparazzi.A fireman in his high-visibility vest and radio at his waist peers into the front seat where bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones lies horribly maimed, although he was to survive. Beside him Dr Maillez in shirt sleeves points forwardThe crashed car from the front. Inside the rear door Sebastian Dorzee, one of the two police officers who were first on the scene, leans over Diana. At the front in the white shirt is Dorzee's partner, Lino GagliardoneSources close to Mohamed Al Fayed, who claims his son and Diana were murdered in an Establishment plot, said the existence of the last picture of the couple surrounded in the front and the rear by photographers proved they were pursued to their death by the paparazzi.After smashing into pillar 13 in the tunnel, the car cannons into the side wall. The lights of cars travelling in the opposite direction are visible. Witnesses say the Mercedes was doing between 60mph and 93mphFirst on the scene is agency photographer Serge Arnal. The force of the crash is clear: The nearside of the Mercedes in which Dodi and Henri Paul had died instantly is crushed. The impact has disordered the exhaust systemBy now rescue workers are gathering. It is some time after 12.30am. Inside the stricken Mercedes, the physician Dr Maillez is bent over the Princess's body. He has already ascertained that Dodi and Paul are deadMore paparazzi have arrived. Hands in pockets to the side of the tunnel stand Serge Arnal and Fabrice Chassery, and in the foreground Serge Benamou. A shirt-sleeved fireman reaches into the wreckage of the MercedesThe Mercedes, its roof cut off as rescuers tried to reach the passengers, is just a twisted heap of metal showing the sheer destructive power of the crash: a car barely recognisable, the shattered windscreen, deflated airbags and broken engineFiremen have cut open the roof to free the Princess and Rees-Jones and remove the bodies of Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed and in one picture Dr Frederic Maillez, the first doctor on the scene, can be clearly seen inside the back of the smashed Mercedes tending to the critically ill princess.The photos also show the shuddering impact of the black limousine after it collided with pillar 13 - and how the car virtually disintegrated, such was the force of the collision.According to the website, it will be updated daily throughout the inquest with exhibits - including photographs - that are shown to the jury. It will also contain transcripts, official statements, and details of procedural decisions.