Ex-Harrods staff claim to have been victims of Al Fayed and brother

ONE of disgraced Mohamed Al Fayed’s brothers also abused women who worked at Harrods, former staff at the store have claimed.

Three women told the BBC that Salah Fayed abused them in London, the south of France and Monaco between 1989 and 1997, including one alleged case of rape.

All three say they were also sexually assaulted or raped by Mohamed – the late Harrods boss who has been exposed as a prolific abuser who assaulted hundreds of women.

Harrods said in a statement that the new claims point to the ‘breadth of abuse’ by Fayed and ‘raise serious allegations’ against his brother.

Salah, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2010, was one of three Fayed brothers who bought the Knightsbridge department store in 1985.

One of the three women, Helen, said she was 23 in 1989 and working at Harrods when Mohamed raped her in a Dubai hotel room.

The former employee, who has waived her right to anonymity, said she later took a job as his younger brother Salah’s personal assistant at his Park Lane home, where she alleges he drugged then raped her while she was unconscious.

The BBC has also spoken independently to two other women who say they were abused by both Mohamed and Salah.

They say they were trafficked and tricked by Salah into smoking crack cocaine.

One woman told the BBC that she was just 19 when she was pressured to sit with Salah in a hot tub in his Monaco apartment where he sexually assaulted her. She said he had encouraged her to smoke what he told her was ‘tree resin’ from a homemade bong pipe which was in fact crack.

Lawyers for the Justice for Harrods Survivors said last night: ‘We have credible evidence from our survivors suggesting the abuse perpetrated at Harrods and Mohamed Al Fayed’s other properties was not limited to Mr Al Fayed himself.

‘We are grateful that another abuser has now been unmasked and look forward to the others on whom we have credible evidence – whether abusers themselves or enablers facilitating that abuse – being exposed in due course.’

Allegations of sexual abuse against Mohamed, who died in August last year aged 94, came to a head earlier this year, when a BBC investigation saw five women accuse him of rape.

Since then at least 40 more alleged victims have contacted the police amid fears hundreds could have been targeted by the Egyptian businessman.