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Claim will be first legal action taken related to alleged crimes of former Harrods owner, who died last year

Britain’s police watchdog is assessing complaints from two women over how the Metropolitan Police handled sex crime allegations they made against the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed

The department store confirmed ‘over 290 individuals’ were engaged in the Harrods process.

Samantha Jay-Ramsay told the News of the World in 1998 that police had said she was ‘not the first’ with claims over Fayed

Samantha Jay-Ramsay’s family said she reported Mr Al Fayed to police when she worked at Harrods almost 30 years ago.

Harrods employee allegedly groped in 1995 told ‘we’ve added it to a pile of other complaints’

Allegations about Mohamed al-Fayed were first publicised in 1995

On the first anniversary of former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed’s death, more than 20 women accused the billionaire of rape, sexual assault or harassment while they worked at his luxury department store. Many had been in their late teens and early twenties at the time.

More than 400 alleged victims of ex-Harrods owner have come forward, lawyers for survivors’ group say