A RENEGADE British spy has told the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, that she could have been murdered by MI6 officers using a strobe gun to blind her driver.

Richard Tomlinson said he realised his former colleagues at the Secret Intelligence Service might have been responsible when he saw a documentary alleging that there had been a bright flash before the princess's car crashed in a Paris underpass.

He remembered an MI6 training session in which he was shown a portable strobe light intended temporarily to blind targets in vehicles.

Mr Tomlinson said he had also seen an MI6 document in 1992 detailing a plan to murder the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic by flashing a strobe light at his chauffeur as he entered a tunnel in Geneva.

It bore an "alarming and very eerie similarity" to the crash that killed the princess, he said.