The most senior member of the security services ever to give evidence to a public hearing admitted yesterday he did have a 'licence to kill'.
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, known as "C" when he headed MI6, told the Diana inquest the Secret Intelligence Service had the power to use "lethal force" - but he had never exercised it in his 38-year career as a spook.
Asked by Ian Burnett QC, counsel to the coroner, whether an operation had been mounted against the princess or Dodi Al Fayed, he replied with conviction: "Absolutely not."
No plot: Sir Richard Dearlove leaves court after denying that MI6 targeted Diana
"During the whole of your time in SIS, from 1966 to 2004, were you ever aware of the service assassinating anyone?", he was asked.
Sir Richard insisted: "No, I was not."
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