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EXCLUSIVE: Tonight @Channel4News will reveal disturbing new allegations about Mohamed Al Fayed by three women who claimed he sexually assaulted them, including by one female employee when she was just 15. He denies this.
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https://www.channel4.com/news/new-allegations-of-sexual-assault-against-mohamed-al-fayed-by-three-women-including-15-year-old-employee
https://www.channel4.com/news/new-allegations-of-sexual-assault-against-mohamed-al-fayed-by-three-women-including-15-year-old-employee
From above link :
Multiple woman have made new allegations of sexual misconduct against the former Harrods owner – with one woman telling the programme she was targeted when she was just 15-years-old. He denies this.
But tonight this programme can reveal disturbing allegations about the way he abused his power to prey on women who worked for him. Multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, with one woman telling us she was targeted when she was just 15.
They came forward after a Channel 4 Dispatches alleged the billionaire businessman sexually harassed and groomed female employees. They plucked up the courage to come forward after Channel 4 Dispatches alleged the billionaire businessman harassed and groomed female employees.
Channel 4 News has spoken to three more women – on condition of anonymity – who claim they were all sexually assaulted by the Egyptian magnate.
WOMAN A (claims she was assaulted in 2008, and reported it the police in same year):
In 2007 a schoolgirl visited Harrods with her mum. She says she was spotted by Al-Fayed and he offered her a job, even though she was only 15-years-old. She claims she was given an hourly salary for a weekend job. But soon Al-Fayed started offering her wads of cash as well.
Woman A: “It was so surreal. lt was something where I just felt the lucky one. Just felt honoured… My meetings would be often, once a week in his offices, upstairs in Harrods, top floor.”
Cathy: “How much money did he give you?”
Woman A: “£50 notes, I can’t remember the exact amount but sometimes I guess it was about £300.”
She was uneasy about it, but she says she was in thrall to him. Even when he showered her with gifts – perfume, a designer handbag – she didn’t question his motives.
Woman A: “I just saw the good in him because I felt he just wanted the best for me. And he was seen as a god in Harrods, he really was.”
After a few months she said something happened which changed the course of her life.
Woman A: “He came into the office one day, into the board room. Basically, he just grabbed me to say hello, to hug me. And he just carried on hugging me, and hugging me, and then he started rubbing himself on my chest. And I was just shocked by situation. And I said ‘what are you doing?’ And he was telling me I was turning into beautiful woman. And then he grabbed my head and he tried to put his tongue in my mouth.
“So I pushed him off me and he went berserk. Absolutely berserk, screaming at me to get the f*** out, screaming at me never to say anything, never say anything to my parents or to never come back again. And I felt stupid because I knew then I’d been a fool this whole time – and I should have I should have listened to my instincts when I had funny feelings but he was just so looked up at and I genuinely thought he had the best interests for me, and he completely just went for me. And the fact that I pushed him off and how he reacted was just … awful.”
She stopped eating, ran away from home, but eventually confided in her parents. They took her to the police. After a thorough investigation, though, the Crown Prosecution Service decided the evidence was conflicting and not sufficiently reliable and so there was no realistic prospect of conviction – and dropped the case. Al-Fayed has always maintained his innocence.
Multiple woman have made new allegations of sexual misconduct against the former Harrods owner – with one woman telling the programme she was targeted when she was just 15-years-old. He denies this.
But tonight this programme can reveal disturbing allegations about the way he abused his power to prey on women who worked for him. Multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, with one woman telling us she was targeted when she was just 15.
They came forward after a Channel 4 Dispatches alleged the billionaire businessman sexually harassed and groomed female employees. They plucked up the courage to come forward after Channel 4 Dispatches alleged the billionaire businessman harassed and groomed female employees.
Channel 4 News has spoken to three more women – on condition of anonymity – who claim they were all sexually assaulted by the Egyptian magnate.
WOMAN A (claims she was assaulted in 2008, and reported it the police in same year):
In 2007 a schoolgirl visited Harrods with her mum. She says she was spotted by Al-Fayed and he offered her a job, even though she was only 15-years-old. She claims she was given an hourly salary for a weekend job. But soon Al-Fayed started offering her wads of cash as well.
Woman A: “It was so surreal. lt was something where I just felt the lucky one. Just felt honoured… My meetings would be often, once a week in his offices, upstairs in Harrods, top floor.”
Cathy: “How much money did he give you?”
Woman A: “£50 notes, I can’t remember the exact amount but sometimes I guess it was about £300.”
She was uneasy about it, but she says she was in thrall to him. Even when he showered her with gifts – perfume, a designer handbag – she didn’t question his motives.
Woman A: “I just saw the good in him because I felt he just wanted the best for me. And he was seen as a god in Harrods, he really was.”
After a few months she said something happened which changed the course of her life.
Woman A: “He came into the office one day, into the board room. Basically, he just grabbed me to say hello, to hug me. And he just carried on hugging me, and hugging me, and then he started rubbing himself on my chest. And I was just shocked by situation. And I said ‘what are you doing?’ And he was telling me I was turning into beautiful woman. And then he grabbed my head and he tried to put his tongue in my mouth.
“So I pushed him off me and he went berserk. Absolutely berserk, screaming at me to get the f*** out, screaming at me never to say anything, never say anything to my parents or to never come back again. And I felt stupid because I knew then I’d been a fool this whole time – and I should have I should have listened to my instincts when I had funny feelings but he was just so looked up at and I genuinely thought he had the best interests for me, and he completely just went for me. And the fact that I pushed him off and how he reacted was just … awful.”
She stopped eating, ran away from home, but eventually confided in her parents. They took her to the police. After a thorough investigation, though, the Crown Prosecution Service decided the evidence was conflicting and not sufficiently reliable and so there was no realistic prospect of conviction – and dropped the case. Al-Fayed has always maintained his innocence.
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