Video no longer private, says lawyer

DEFENCE Rutherford THE lawyer who brokered the sale of “the Diana tapes” has also defended their broadcast.

Marcus Rutherford, who represents former voice coach Peter Settelen, accepts the content was meant to be private between his client and Diana.

But he added: “The fact is that after Diana’s death and being found in the possession of her former butler Paul Burrell, the claim to privacy failed because the police looked at them, the Spencer family looked at them.

“So what was private to Peter, as much as to Diana, was actually lost in the process.

“So I don’t think it’s right to say that now, 20 years later after her death, that they remain private.” He added in the Radio 5 Live interview it was clear at the time she recorded them – five years before her 1997 death in Paris – Diana wanted the world to know of her divorce hell.

Diana’s brother Earl Spencer has urged C4 not to show the documentary this weekend.