2008-03-07 17:41:44 -

LONDON (AP) - London's Metropolitan Police said Friday that they will not consider investigating alleged perjury by former royal butler Paul Burrell while the inquest into Princess Diana's death continues.
Burrell has refused to return to Britain from Florida to answer more questions at the inquest.
The Sun newspaper has reported that Burrell was caught on

a hidden video camera boasting about withholding information from the judge.
«Do you honestly think I've told everything I know?» The Sun quoted Burrell as saying in its transcript of the video. «Of course I haven't.
Metropolitan Police said Friday that any decision would be made in consultation with the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, after the inquest ends, which may be in April.
Although refusing to return, Burrell made a further written statement which was read to the inquest jury on Thursday. He said he had not concealed «anything remotely relevant to the inquiry.
«I accept that whilst I was under cross-examination my evidence may at times have strayed from the strictly relevant, but at no time did I tell any untruths. I tried to assist the court as far as I was able,» he said.

At the time of the videotaped conversation with an unidentified «contact» in a New York hotel room he said he was «tired and depressed and had been drinking all evening.
«I am not proud of this. I was trying to impress him. The comments I made to him were not correct,» Burrell said in the statement.
On the Net: www.scottbaker-inquests.gov.uk