Harrods settling over 250 claims against Al Fayed

Harrods has told the BBC it is successful the process of settling much than 250 claims for compensation brought by women who allege humanities intersexual misconduct by Mohamed Al Fayed.

The section store said the women person travel guardant since the merchandise of a BBC documentary much than 4 weeks ago. The probe exposed decades of superior intersexual maltreatment allegations against the erstwhile Harrods owner.

Harrods has antecedently said it has already settled a fig of claims.

Fayed owned Harrods betwixt 1985 and 2010. Its caller owners person antecedently said they are "appalled" by allegations of intersexual maltreatment by Al Fayed and person been investigating since past twelvemonth whether immoderate existent members of unit were involved.

The institution said it would not supply a "running commentary" of its interior review.

Harrods has a compensation strategy for ex-employees who accidental they were attacked by Al Fayed, which is abstracted from a ineligible lawsuit against the luxury section store being brought guardant by respective antithetic instrumentality firms.

Justice for Harrods Survivors group, who correspond the accusers of the erstwhile Harrods boss, said their lawyers were moving with 147 women. It is unclear if determination is immoderate overlap betwixt the women seeking compensation from Harrods and those pursuing ineligible action.

The billionaire businessman, who died past twelvemonth aged 94, is accused of aggregate counts of rape and attempted rape by respective women who worked for him - galore of whom felt incapable to study what had happened until recently.

At the clip of galore of the alleged attacks, Fayed was the proprietor of Harrods, the Ritz Paris edifice and shot nine Fulham FC.

He was a well-known nationalist fig who had links to elder figures successful Parliament and courted royalty and celebrities alike.

The BBC heard grounds from much than 20 pistillate ex-employees astatine Harrods during its probe for the documentary and podcast - Al Fayed: Predator astatine Harrods.

The documentary, which aired past month, recovered that during Fayed's ownership, Harrods not lone failed to intervene but helped screen up maltreatment allegations.

Responding to the investigation, Harrods' existent owners said they were “utterly appalled” by the allegations and that his victims had been failed - for which the store sincerely apologised.