By KUNA
London : More than six million pounds of British public money has been spent investigating the death of Diana, the Princess of Wales, it emerged here Tuesday. The Judge lord Scott Baker, the coroner at her High Court inquest, said bills for the hearing had topped 2.4 million pounds. The previous Metropolitan Police investigation – which concluded her death in a Paris car crash in 1997 was a tragic accident – cost 3.7 million pounds. The total does not include any costs borne by the taxpayer before 2003. Any such outlay has not been made public. During that time Mohamed Al Fayed, whose son Dodi also died in the crash, as did driver Henri Paul, was pursuing a number of legal actions in the UK including a public inquiry. Legal costs Figures published on the coroner’s website say more than 187, 000 pounds was run up by coroners before June last year. And precisely 2,229,371.54 pounds was spent in the last seven months, taking the total above 2.4 million pounds. Lawyers were the biggest cost, with more than one million pounds going on “external legal services”. Yesterday, the inquest heard that a team from the external Intelligence service, known as MI6, was at the UK’s embassy in Paris at the time of the crash. Former ambassador Lord Jay said he did not think the intelligence service’s presence had anything to do with the car crash which killed her. He said the team was there “to liaise with the French authorities on issues such as counter-terrorism, anti-drugs work, security issues and to share intelligence on matters of foreign policy”.