Police launch probe into individuals who enabled Mohamed Fayed’s campaign of sexual abuse
POLICE have launched a probe into individuals who enabled Mohamed Fayed’s campaign of sexual abuse.
More than five associates of the disgraced Harrods tycoon are said to be under investigation.
The individuals could face charges of trafficking or other offences if they are found to have facilitated Fayed’s prolific sex offending.
The Egyptian, who died last year aged 94, was outed as a serial sexual predator in September, with hundreds of women speaking out.
The Metropolitan Police is carrying out an internal review into how the force handled allegations about the billionaire while he was alive, with 50,000 pages of evidence being reassessed.
Despite 21 allegations of rape and sexual assault being made to police before his death, London department store owner Fayed was never charged and died without his victims getting justice.
Yesterday the force revealed that 150 people have come to them since September, with 90 new victims identified.
The incidents span almost 40 years, according to Met records, from 1977 to 2014.
All those who allege Fayed assaulted them are women, with the youngest victim aged just 13 at the time.
The Met has also referred itself to the police watchdog following complaints from two women about the quality of investigations in 2008.
Investigators twice sent files for a charging decision to the Crown Prosecution Service — once in 2008 relating to three victims and again in 2015 linked to one other.
The results of the internal review are due to be published next month.
Commander Stephen Clayman, of the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, said: “We are now pursuing any individuals suspected to have been complicit in his offending.”