Sexual abuse survivors say working for late former Harrods owner involved ‘deceit, lies and humiliation’
A survivor of Mohamed Al Fayed’s sexual abuse has given a harrowing account of her suffering at his hands. Speaking at a press conference in London, the woman – named as Natacha – told reporters she “walked into a lion’s den” when she accepted a job with the former owner of Harrods department store in London., as “the chairman”, Natacha said he “preyed on the most vulnerable – those of us who needed to pay the rent and some of us who didn’t have parents to protect them”.
Once he had lured her in, Natacha said Fayed started to use private meetings to subject her to an escalating campaign of physical abuse. This culminated with her being summoned to his private apartment one night “on the pretext of a job review”. “I remember feeling his body on me, the weight of him. Just hearing him make these noises. And just going somewhere else in my head.”
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