Staff were failed over Fayed abuse, says Harrods boss

The managing manager of Harrods has said the institution "failed our colleagues and for that we are profoundly sorry" pursuing allegations of intersexual maltreatment against erstwhile proprietor Mohamed Al Fayed.

Michael Ward said successful a connection that helium wanted to convey his "personal fearfulness astatine the revelations that person emerged implicit the past week" and marque wide that helium "was not alert of [Fayed's] criminality and abuse".

He went connected to accidental that Fayed, who died successful 2023, "presided implicit a toxic civilization of secrecy, intimidation, fearfulness of repercussion and intersexual misconduct".

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