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Sammy Gecsoyler

Met apologises for exposing 143 email addresses of Mohamed Al Fayed victims

Al Fayed smiling in colourful shirt and jacket
Mohamed Al Fayed pictured in 2013. The Metropolitan police said that victims’ email addresses had been made visible to others on a distribution list. Photograph: Daniel Hambury/PA

The Metropolitan police have apologised for accidentally exposing the email addresses of more than 140 victims of Mohamed Al Fayed.

In a group update about its investigation into the former Harrods owner, the force copied the email addresses of 143 victims of Fayed in a message that included about 12 other recipients, the Telegraph reported.

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