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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

Met Police first told of Fayed sexual abuse allegations ‘a decade earlier than previously acknowledged’

A woman first reported allegations she was sexually assaulted by Mohamed al-Fayed to the Metropolitan Police a decade earlier than the force initially acknowledged, her family has revealed.

As Harrods’ new owners process more than 250 claims of sexual misconduct by the department store’s late boss, Samantha Jay-Ramsay’s family have told the BBC that she first reported him to Scotland Yard in 1995, after he allegedly harassed and sexually assaulted her while working at Harrods aged 17.

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