Renegade spy at Diana inquest

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Mr Tomlinson is expected to go into the witness box to try to throw light on whether the British or any other security services had any involvement in the Paris crash which killed Diana, her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul in August 1997.

His evidence has been used in the past to back up claims that Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was monitoring Diana and that Mr Paul, the Ritz hotel security chief, was in the pay of spies.

Mr Tomlinson, a former MI6 officer once jailed for leaking Government secrets, will make his claims via a videolink from France to the central London inquest.

Cambridge-educated Mr Tomlinson's evidence could support claims by Harrods tycoon Mohamed al Fayed of an Establishment plot to kill Diana to stop her marrying his son Dodi, a Muslim.

The coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, has said Mr al Fayed contends that MI6 is known to be involved in operations to kill people.

He rests that belief partly on the evidence of Mr Tomlinson, who has claimed that Diana's death bore similarities to another plan to kill former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic under the guise of an accident.