Mohamed Al Fayed 'sex attacks' bombshells - from 100 feared victims to police 'wiping evidence'

A drawstring of women person travel guardant to publically impeach the precocious Harrods proprietor and billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed of superior intersexual assaults and predatory behaviour

At slightest 100 women are feared to person been sexually abused by Mohamed Al Fayed.

Ex-staff astatine the precocious tycoon’s luxury Harrods store, 1 past conscionable 15, allege they were attacked crossed 24 years. Five impeach him of rape.

But a caller BBC documentary claims Al Fayed deployed an service of aides to soundlessness his alleged victims and utilized his powerfulness and wealthiness to evade justice.

More than 20 erstwhile workers person accused Al Fayed, whose lad Dodi was killed successful a car clang alongside woman Princess Diana, of enactment abuse. Five claimed they were raped. He allegedly deployed Harrods staff, a erstwhile elder Met Police officer, lawyers and PR agents to endanger his victims who helium spied connected utilizing hidden cameras and bugging equipment.

One pistillate claims Al Fayed’s intersexual maltreatment was good known astir during his clip successful complaint of Harrods from 1986 to 2010 erstwhile helium sold it. She said: “We each watched each different locomotion done that doorway thinking, ‘You mediocre girl, it’s you today’ and feeling powerless to halt it.”

A fig of the women, who each spell by pseudonyms successful the documentary, said they were “required” to person ­invasive examinations for sexually transmitted diseases. Katherine, an enforcement adjunct successful 2005, said: “There is nary payment successful anybody knowing what my intersexual wellness is unless you’re readying to slumber with somebody, which I find rather chilling now.”

Rachel claimed she was raped astatine 1 of Al Fayed’s ­apartments. She said: “I made it evident I didn’t privation that to happen. I retrieve feeling his assemblage connected me. Just proceeding him marque these noises.”

Ellie was 15 erstwhile she told constabulary successful 2008 Al Fayed groped and tried to buss her successful Harrods. She claims the lawsuit was dropped aft details were leaked by the Met Police who allegedly wiped grounds from her phone. Ellie said of Al Fayed’s absorption erstwhile she resisted him: “He went into a rage and started screaming astatine me. I was a kid erstwhile this happened. I was 15 and helium was astir 80.”

Gemma, a erstwhile idiosyncratic ­assistant to Al Fayed, accused him of rape. She said going to the constabulary “was not an option” and added: “He felt similar specified a almighty antheral with truthful overmuch wealth and truthful galore nonrecreational radical astir him who were ­facilitating everything helium did.”

Another of Al Fayed’s assistants, Sophia, claimed helium tried to rape her much than once. She said his jolly quality was a cautiously cultivated enactment and added: “That makes maine angry, radical shouldn’t retrieve him similar that. It’s not however helium was. He was vile.”

Sohpie’s TV shaper hubby Keaton has been ­investigating Al Fayed for six years and believes helium targeted much than 100 victims. He said: “I’ve spoken to dozens I cognize to beryllium affected, and I privation to talk to, women successful triple figures.” Another pistillate claimed she was raped arsenic a teen by Al Fayed and said unit astatine Harrods were his ­“playthings”. She added: “Mohammed Al Fayed was a monster, a intersexual predator with nary motivation compass. We were each truthful scared. He actively cultivated fear. If helium said ‘jump’ employees would inquire ‘how high’?” Al Fayed was described by 1 alleged unfortunate arsenic an “apex predator”. She said: “He enjoyed the pursuit and enjoyed the fearfulness successful my eyes. I was consumed with fear.”

Al Fayed allegedly utilized caput of information John Macnamara to endanger women who made enactment claims. The erstwhile Met Police main superintendent was described arsenic a “nasty portion of work” by an ex-Harrods workfellow who said “He would usage his powerfulness arsenic an ex-copper. I cognize Macnamara knocked connected someone’s doorway and ­threatened a girl.”

A unfortunate who had spoken to Vanity Fair successful 1995 astir Al Fayed said ­Macnamara visited her, aft which she ne'er again spoke of the claims. She added: “He said I wasn’t to beryllium progressive successful that nonfiction and if I went against his proposal to beryllium alert helium knew wherever my parents lived. It turned maine cold.”

Macnamara died successful 2019. Former Harrods manager Tony Leeming, who worked determination from 1994 to 2004 claimed said Al Fayed’s maltreatment “wasn’t adjacent a secret”. He said: “If I knew, ­everybody knew. Anyone who says they didn’t are lying.”

Former manager of information Eamon Coyle added: “We were alert helium [Al Fayed] had this precise beardown involvement successful young girls.” He besides claimed Al Fayed Al-Fayed “bugged everybody that helium wanted to bug “and that portion of his occupation was to perceive to recordings.

It is understood 3 women came guardant to the Met successful 2018, 2021 and 2023, but the CPS was ne'er asked to see charges. Investigations by the Sunday Mirror successful 2015, Channel 4’s Dispatches successful 2017 and Channel 4 News a twelvemonth aboriginal besides revealed claims of abuse.

The drawstring of alleged attacks are said to person taken spot astatine Al Fayed’s Park Lane flat successful London, Villa Windsor successful Paris, St Tropez and Abu Dhabi. Convicted enactment offender Max ­Clifford was secretly filmed boasting astir however helium had kept allegations against Al-Fayed retired of the media. The erstwhile publicist, who died successful jailhouse successful 2017, said: “He’s a randy aged sod. I’ve stopped, this stopped that.”

Al Fayed died aged 94 successful August past year. Harrods’ owners said they were “utterly appalled” by the a­llegations and apologised for the information that his victims had been failed.

Met Commander Kevin ­Southworth said: “We are alert of assorted allegations of intersexual offences made implicit a fig of years successful ­relation to the precocious Mohammed Al Fayed which were reported to us.

“If further accusation comes to airy it volition beryllium assessed.”