Met Police only sought Al Fayed charges relating to two victims

The Metropolitan Police lone asked prosecutors to determine whether to complaint Mohamed Al Fayed successful narration to 2 retired of 21 women who accused him of intersexual offences portion helium was alive, the BBC has established.

It raises superior questions astir the Met’s effect to women who said they were abused by the erstwhile Harrods owner, who died aged 94 past year.

Scotland Yard refused to reply the BBC’s questions astir however galore women it sought charging decisions on, but the Crown Prosecution Service has present provided the information.

The BBC has besides established that a pistillate was investigated for aiding and abetting rape by Al Fayed.

Last period a BBC documentary and podcast heard grounds from erstwhile Harrods employees who said the billionaire sexually assaulted oregon raped them. Al Fayed was ne'er charged portion helium was alive.

Since the documentary aired, astatine slightest 65 women person contacted the BBC saying they were abused by Al Fayed, with allegations stretching beyond Harrods and arsenic acold backmost arsenic 1977.

Last week, the Met revealed that 40 women person approached the force since the movie to impeach Al Fayed of intersexual offences. The allegations screen a play betwixt 1979 and 2013.

The Met has besides admitted that 21 women approached the unit earlier the BBC film.

The unit is conducting an interior reappraisal into these earlier complaints and the constabulary watchdog has asked if thing needs to beryllium referred to it for investigation.

The CPS has present told the BBC that, successful 2009, it made a charging determination connected 2 allegations of intersexual battle successful narration to 1 pistillate complainant.

Then, successful 2015, it made a charging determination connected 1 allegation of rape and an allegation of aiding and abetting rape by 1 pistillate suspect. These allegations related to a antithetic pistillate complainant.

It means the Met did not walk afloat files of grounds to prosecutors connected 19 of the women who approached them, nor did the 2 files it did walk incorporate complaints from different women whose grounds could person perchance provided corroboration.

Many radical volition beryllium astonished that a antheral could beryllium accused of intersexual offences by 21 women and not beryllium charged. Given that 40 further women person approached the Met since the BBC film, determination are present mounting questions astir the prime of the Met’s earlier enquiries.

These see wherefore the Met did not nexus the antithetic cases oregon motorboat a larger probe that mightiness person recovered different women who person present travel forward.

The Met has antecedently said it besides approached the CPS connected 3 further occasions for “early investigative advice” successful narration to Al Fayed. These 3 occasions did not impact the CPS being asked to marque charging decisions connected afloat files of evidence.