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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Ambrose

Met police refer two cases to watchdog after Fayed investigation complaints

Mohamed Al Fayed in 2003
The former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed in 2003. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Scotland Yard has referred two cases to the police watchdog after receiving complaints over the force’s historical investigations into claims of sexual offences by Mohamed Al Fayed.

The complaints involve investigations from 2008 and 2013 and regard the quality of the Metropolitan police’s response and, in the latter case, how details leaked publicly.

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