- guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 February 2000 01.36 GMT
Lord Justice William Aldous told the appeal court that in a book entitled Death of a Princess, the Harrods owner made a series of inaccurate assertions and claimed the couple were preparing for a new life together and that a conspiracy existed to kill them in order to stop their marriage.
Lord Aldous made the statement in a written ruling in favour of Mr Fayed and against the Sun Newspaper.
The court found the Sun was not justified in publishing still pictures of Diana and Dodi taken by a security camera at Al Fayed's Villa Windsor in Paris hours before they died in a 1997 car crash.
The newspaper contended it had printed the stills to help disprove Mr Fayed's claim that his son and the princess planned to marry and set up home there.
Three judges ordered Reuben Murrell, the security man who sold the stills to The Sun for £40,000, to give the court £20,000 in case Mr Fayed seeks damages.
• The former Tory MP Neil Hamilton was yesterday told to pay £500,000 towards the legal costs of Mohamed Al Fayed following his failed libel action against him. He was given 14 days to pay.
