Ex Fulham captain Ronnie Gibbons was assaulted by ex-owner Mohamed Al Fayed

The erstwhile skipper of the Fulham women’s squad has revealed however she was sexually assaulted arsenic a young subordinate by the club’s ex-owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

Ronnie Gibbons says she was conscionable aged conscionable 20 erstwhile she was doubly driven by members of the club’s unit from Fulham’s grooming crushed successful New Malden to Al Fayed’s Harrods store successful Knightsbridge.

She was taken nether the pretence of speaking to Al Fayed’s children astir shot and was showered with golden chocolates and gifts including an envelope containing £500 cash.

But erstwhile successful his bureau Al Fayed, who was past 71, attempted to forcefully buss her, made her beryllium connected his genu portion helium stroked her, and past groped her arsenic she attempted to leave.

The serial enactment monster besides offered to bargain her an flat successful Knightsbridge, springiness her parent a job, and says that she was told by the present disgraced paedophile publicist Max Clifford – who worked for Al Fayed and was aboriginal jailed for indecent assaults connected young women and girls – that helium would crook her into a superstar.

The archetypal intersexual battle happened successful the summertime of 2000 erstwhile lifelong Fulham instrumentality Gibbons was asked to spell to Harrods by a subordinate of the shot club’s staff.

Al Fayed owned Fulham betwixt 1997 and 2013.

Gibbons said: “I felt benignant of excited. I was astatine Harrods, gathering this feline who has done this astonishing happening for Fulham Ladies and he’s president of Fulham Football Club, my team.

“I was summoned to his bureau and I don’t cognize if the doorway automatically closed oregon it was closed down me, but I went successful and it was conscionable him. I was a spot like, ‘This is simply a spot weird’.

“He said, ‘Oh, I’m precise sorry, determination was a information breach and my children couldn’t come’. Then helium pulled maine successful adjacent and tried to buss maine connected the mouth. He had his arms holding my arms, similar astatine my broadside truthful I couldn’t propulsion him distant oregon thing similar that. It was a existent benignant of power stance, similar ‘I’m dominating you’.

“He held my arms, pulled maine successful and tried to buss maine connected the mouth. I benignant of moved my caput truthful helium could lone buss maine connected the cheek. I was wearing my Fulham tracksuit and conscionable felt sweat instantly connected the backmost of my neck.

“I was conscionable like, ‘What bash I bash here?’ I conscionable felt similar a immense work connected my shoulders astatine that constituent due to the fact that we’d conscionable turned professional.”

Gibbons said that she tried to distract him by complementing a photograph of him with the precocious Queen astatine a horse-racing gathering connected his wall.

Gibbons said she was summoned to sojourn Al Fayed a 2nd clip that summertime and had to bang connected the doorway to get retired arsenic helium attempted to buss and groped her again.

She past refused the envelope stashed with £50 notes and stopped answering her telephone to backstage numbers and avoided him thereafter.

A BBC exposure past month, entitled Al Fayed: Predator At Harrods, elaborate the stories of much than 20 pistillate employees astatine Harrods who said that helium sexually assaulted oregon raped them.

Since past astir 300 women had travel guardant to impeach the erstwhile Harrods proprietor of abusing them with the luxury store confirming it is negation with implicit 200 erstwhile employees. The offences scope betwixt 1977 and 2013.

Al Fayed died past twelvemonth aged 94.

Gibbons is the archetypal erstwhile Fulham footballer to talk publically astir being sexually abused by the Egyptian-born tycoon and is understood to beryllium 1 of 4 erstwhile footballers signed up to the ‘Justice for Harrods Survivors’ group.

In a connection the radical said: “What erstwhile Fulham skipper Ronnie Gibbons was forced to endure astatine the hands of Mohamed Al Fayed is yet different horrible illustration of the monstrous maltreatment aided and abetted by the businesses helium owned.

“We salute our client’s bravery and are arrogant to advocator for Ronnie and others astatine Fulham who are searching for justice. We volition bash immoderate we tin to assistance the lid connected abuse, nary substance wherever it was perpetrated, oregon who it was perpetrated by, including immoderate enablers of Al Fayed’s abhorrent behaviour.”

In a connection Fulham said: “We unequivocally condemn each forms of abuse. We stay successful the process of establishing whether anyone astatine the nine is, oregon would person been, impacted by Mohamed Fayed successful immoderate mode arsenic described successful caller reports.”

A Harrods spokesperson said: “We are utterly appalled by the allegations of maltreatment perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an idiosyncratic who was intent connected abusing his powerfulness wherever helium operated and we condemn them successful the strongest terms.

“We besides admit that during this clip his victims were failed and for this, we sincerely apologise.”