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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Harriet Sherwood

Teenager’s Mohamed Al Fayed sexual assault claim dismissed by police in 1995

Samantha-Jane Ramsay (left) with her sister Emma Wills
Samantha-Jane Ramsay (left) with her sister Emma Wills. Photograph: Leigh Day

Police dismissed a teenage girl who reported an alleged sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed in 1995, saying they would add her name to a pile of similar claims.

Last month the Metropolitan police said the first report of sexual assault by the Harrods owner had been made in 2005. After the family of Samantha-Jane Ramsay, who has since died, came forward, the force said it had no computer record of her report but it may have been paper-based and not transferred.

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