Mohamed Al Fayed's brother Salah also abused Harrods staff, women tell BBC

One of Mohamed Al Fayed's brothers besides abused women who worked astatine the Harrods section store, according to 3 ex-employees who person made allegations including intersexual battle and trafficking to the BBC.

The women allege that Salah Fayed abused them successful London, the southbound of France and Monaco betwixt 1989 and 1997. One pistillate believes she was raped by Salah aft she was drugged.

All 3 women accidental they were besides sexually assaulted oregon raped by Mohamed Al Fayed, past president of the company.

Harrods, which came nether caller ownership successful 2010, said successful a connection that the caller claims constituent to the "breadth of abuse" by Al Fayed and "raise superior allegations" against his brother.

Salah Fayed, who died of pancreatic crab successful 2010, was 1 of 3 Fayed brothers who purchased the luxury Knightsbridge section store successful 1985. Mohamed added the Arabic "Al" prefix to his surname immoderate clip successful the 1970s.

One of the 3 women, Helen, has waived her close to anonymity. She was 23 and had been moving astatine her "dream" occupation successful Harrods for astir 2 years erstwhile Mohamed Al Fayed raped her successful a Dubai edifice room.

Months later, erstwhile Mohamed offered her immoderate idiosyncratic adjunct enactment with his younger brother, she saw it arsenic an flight way - but alternatively she says she was drugged by Salah and believes she was past raped by him portion unconscious.

"He [Mohamed Al Fayed] shared maine with his brother," she says.

Helen is speaking for the archetypal time, aft feeling silenced for 35 years, successful portion due to the fact that of a Harrods non-disclosure statement that she was told to sign.

"They've stolen a portion of me," she says. "It's changed the people of my full life."

The BBC has besides spoken independently to 2 different women who accidental they were abused by some Mohamed and Salah.

They accidental they were trafficked overseas and tricked by Salah into smoking ace cocaine.

"He was trying to get maine hooked connected ace truthful helium could bash immoderate helium wanted to me," 1 of the women told the BBC.

Warning: this communicative contains details of intersexual violence

Like galore of the women who person told the BBC they were abused by Mohamed Al Fayed, Helen says she was spotted by him connected 1 of his regular walks of the Harrods store floor.

On a concern travel to Dubai and Abu Dhabi successful February 1989, she was unnerved to find she had been booked to question unsocial with Al Fayed and to enactment successful his edifice suite, portion the remainder of his entourage were staying successful a abstracted accommodation.

On the archetypal evening, Helen was successful her bath getting acceptable for furniture erstwhile Mohamed Al Fayed appeared successful the reflector down her without warning.

"It was similar retired of a fearfulness film," Helen says. "I was successful my nightie and helium grabbed my hand, started pulling maine retired the bathroom. I was truly trying to halt him, but I couldn't."

She says helium took her into his room, pushed her onto the furniture and climbed connected apical of her.

"He raped maine that night," she says.

Helen says she was terrified to find herself truthful acold from location and incapable to speech to anyone astir what had happened.

She was told to motion a Harrods non-disclosure statement 2 months aft the travel - the BBC has seen this document. Helen says this, and the fearfulness of reprisal, stopped her from speaking retired for much than 3 decades.

Over the adjacent fewer months, Helen began making plans to permission Harrods. "I didn't privation to spot his look again,” she says.

So erstwhile Al Fayed asked her to bash immoderate filing enactment for his brother, Salah, astatine his Park Lane home, she saw it arsenic a mode out.

"I'd met Salah and helium seemed truly friendly, helium didn't look successful the slightest spot similar his brother."

After moving for 2 days with Salah, Helen recalls him offering her a solid of champagne to convey her.

"Within a fewer sips I was starting to consciousness a spot groggy, but I can't picture it arsenic drunk. It was a truly dizzy and weird feeling. I wasn’t feeling right."

Salah began playing euphony and Helen felt "it was decidedly clip to go, helium was getting excessively cozy".

Helen says Salah pressured her to "just person 1 puff" of a bong containing ace cocaine. "This volition marque you consciousness better," she remembers him telling her. "That's the past happening I knew of that full evening," she says.

She recalls waking up lying connected a settee successful a wholly antithetic room, with treble imaginativeness and her full assemblage shaking. Salah was sitting astatine her feet holding a solid of h2o and a tablet, looking "nervous and panicky", she says.

As she got up, she noticed her jeans’ fastener was undone and her loop was missing.

Helen recalls feeling a sensation betwixt her legs and discovering semen. "It wasn't conscionable successful 1 place, it was successful another."

She adds: "I knew past what had happened. I knew."

Helen says Salah Fayed past made a telephone to his brother, Mohamed, successful beforehand of her to fto him cognize she would not beryllium going to enactment astatine Harrods that day. Their speech was successful Arabic, and Helen says each she could perceive "was them laughing to each other".

Because she was inactive feeling the effects of the drugs, Helen says she needed assistance walking backmost to her ain apartment. As Salah was walking her home, helium suggested they marque a halt to sojourn a friend.

The archetypal happening Salah's person said to her, she recalls, was: "Hi Helen, however are you this morning?"

She says she did not cognize the antheral and erstwhile she looked astatine Salah quizzically, she says helium told her: "He saw you past night."

Helen decided to leave. "I conscionable needed to beryllium connected my own. As I unopen the door, I could perceive those 2 men laughing."

Helen present believes that Salah's person besides raped her that nighttime portion she was unconscious and feels definite that she was raped vaginally and anally.

"That's the hardest happening I've ever had to say," says Helen.

Shortly after, Helen resigned from Harrods.

Two different women moving astatine Harrods accidental they judge the mode they were brought to Monaco and the southbound of France to beryllium abused by Salah would present beryllium considered trafficking, due to the fact that they were lured with deceptive offers of enactment and sexually exploited.

Rachael was 23 and moving astatine Mohamed Al Fayed's backstage bureau successful 1994, erstwhile she was rung by the Harrods quality resources squad and offered a presumption arsenic idiosyncratic adjunct to Salah.

On starting the job, Rachael says she was not fixed immoderate idiosyncratic adjunct enactment to bash and alternatively felt similar a "companion", attending dinners and "getting to cognize him".

One nighttime successful Monaco, Rachael says she woke up "petrified" to find Salah getting into her bed. She laic awake frozen successful fearfulness each nighttime and successful the greeting helium left.

During her clip moving arsenic his idiosyncratic assistant, Rachael recalls being introduced to older men by Salah who she says "sexually propositioned" her. She present wonders: "Was I determination to beryllium passed around?"

She says Salah encouraged her to fume "hubbly bubbly" - a hookah tube utilized to fume flavoured baccy - but she aboriginal observe it contained ace cocaine.

Rachael says she felt his extremity was to get her addicted to marque it easier to maltreatment her.

She had been told that if the relation with Salah did not suit her, she could instrumentality to Harrods. She went back, but Rachael says 18 months aboriginal she was lured to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Park Lane location wherever helium sexually assaulted her.

A 3rd woman, who we are calling Rebecca, says she was besides sexually assaulted by Mohamed Al Fayed successful Park Lane. It was 1997 and she was aged 19, moving astatine Harrods.

She was aboriginal asked by him to spell to Monaco to enactment arsenic a idiosyncratic adjunct for his younger brother, Salah, but connected her arrival, she recovered determination was precise small enactment to do.

In Monaco, she recalls, Salah enactment her connected the telephone to his brother, Mohamed, who she says asked: "Is my member looking aft you?" He ended the telephone by telling her to "just person fun".

She remembers experiencing a "really uncomfortable feeling" successful her tummy astatine that moment. "It's similar the penny was dropping, the anticipation is that you’re determination for a job, and really you’re conscionable determination arsenic a imaginable portion of meat."

Rebecca says she was pressured to beryllium with Salah successful a blistery tub successful his Monaco flat wherever helium sexually assaulted her.

She besides told the BBC helium had encouraged her to fume what helium told her was "tree resin" from a homemade bong. In fact, it was ace cocaine.

Harrods said it "supports the bravery of these women successful coming forward" and urged them to marque claims to the company's compensation scheme.

It said it hoped they are besides looking astatine "every due avenue to them successful their pursuit of justice", including the constabulary and the Fayed household and estate.

In her last days astatine Harrods, Helen remembers a caller miss starting who seemed "so young and naive", similar she erstwhile had been. Finishing a displacement unneurotic distant from the office, Helen says she confided successful her and warned her astir Mohamed Al Fayed.

Looking back, she says she is pleased she did what she could to effort to dissuade her from staying.

"I told her he'd beryllium trying to person enactment with her, he'd beryllium touching her, putting her nether pressure. I did archer her that I'd been raped by him. She looked horrified but I don't cognize to this time whether she stayed oregon left."

Before she left, Helen says she was fixed currency which, astatine the time, she thought was a mean severance process - present she thinks it was to support her quiet.

She says what she thought would beryllium her imagination occupation ended up leaving her with lifelong trauma.

"It's taken 35 years to speak, that's however frightened I've been of speaking," she says. "I privation to basal up for victims of abuse, whether firm oregon domestic, to fto them cognize that they tin talk up too."