Former Fulham women’s captain alleges sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed

Ronnie Gibbons played for Fulham between 1994 and 2003. Photograph: Rudy L’Homme/Action Images/Reuters

Ronnie Gibbons, a former Fulham women’s captain, has alleged she was sexually assaulted by Mohamed Al Fayed, the club’s late owner, in 2000.

Gibbons, who was 20 at the time, said she was forcefully kissed, groped and had twice felt trapped in a room by Fayed, who owned Fulham between 1997 and 2013 and died in 2023.