400 people have come forward with Al Fayed allegations, survivors group says

Lawyers acting for alleged victims of Mohamed al Fayed person said they person been contacted by implicit 400 people, including further alleged victims and witnesses.

Speaking astatine a quality league connected Thursday, Dean Armstrong KC said those who person contacted the Justice for Harrods Survivors radical are not conscionable from Harrods but from Fulham FC and "various places" associated with Fayed.

He said: "Our survivors person been fto down by important parts of our nine and the threats to them and the obstacles placed successful beforehand of america arsenic we question to navigate the way to justness for them."

A drawstring of allegations person been made against the erstwhile Harrods and Fulham FC proprietor pursuing the merchandise of a documentary astir the businessman, who died past year.

One of those was Paul Gascoigne's daughter, Bianca, who told Sky News earlier this month she was groomed and sexually assaulted by Fayed erstwhile she worked astatine the London section store arsenic a teenager.

Former Fulham Women skipper Ronnie Gibbons besides alleged she was doubly sexually assaulted.

Those are successful summation to 21 women who went to the Metropolitan Police betwixt 2005 and 2023 with enactment transgression allegations against the businessman.

Harrods has antecedently said it is "utterly appalled" by the claims of maltreatment and said it is simply a "very antithetic organisation to the 1 owned and controlled by Fayed betwixt 1985 and 2010".

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