Diana `crash photo' on Net

A picture claiming to show Diana, Princess of Wales trapped in the wreckage of the car in which she was fatally injured was placed on the Internet yesterday.

The photograph is one of a series of the late Princess put together by a group called Rotten who collect disturbing images for publication on the Internet. The dark, indistinct image - headlined "Purported Accident Photo" - appears to show a blonde woman with blood on her face at the centre of a heap of metal.

There are people with fluorescent jackets as worn by rescue crews at the edge of the picture but little else is visible.