Attorneys representing the previous Harrods staff who declare they have been raped and sexually assaulted by late billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed have described him as ‘a monster’ as they laid naked immediately his ‘huge internet of abuse’.
It comes as a number of ladies got here ahead to say the late Egyptian businessman sexually abused them within the Knightsbridge retailer and at his luxurious properties within the UK and overseas.
So horrific was the alleged abuse suffered by the hands of Al Fayed, legal professionals representing his victims have in contrast him to sexual predators Jimmy Savile and Jeffrey Epstein.
Barrister Bruce Drummond informed a press convention: ‘This is likely one of the worse circumstances of sexual exploitation that I and maybe the world has ever seen.
‘It was horrific, simply horrific. It is horrific due to the acts carried out on these ladies and ladies.
‘It was horrific as a result of it was the system that procured them, enabling the abuse of those younger ladies and its horrific, as a result of the impact this sexual abuse and of Harrods’ institutional betrayal have had on our purchasers.’
Barrister Bruce Durmmond (left) and Dean Armstrong KC, who represented the feminine former staff of Harrods
Barrister Dean Armstrong KC informed the press convention the case of Mohammed Al Fayed ‘combines a number of the most horrific parts of the circumstances involving Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein’.
He mentioned: ‘I’ve a few years of observe… I’ve by no means seen a case as horrific as this.
‘This case combines a number of the most horrific parts of the circumstances involving Jimmy Savile, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.
‘Savile as a result of on this case, as in that, the establishment, we are saying, knew in regards to the behaviour.
‘Epstein as a result of in that case, as on this, there was a procurement system in place to supply the ladies and ladies – as you understand there are some very younger victims.
‘And Weinstein, as a result of it was an individual on the very high of the organisation who was abusing his energy.
‘We are going to say plainly, Mohammed Al Fayed was a monster.’
Mr Armstrong KC mentioned it’s time Harrods ‘took accountability’ and ‘set issues proper’.
He informed the press convention: ‘We’re right here to say publicly and to the world, or to Harrods in entrance of the world, that it’s time that they took accountability, and it’s time that they set issues proper, and that’s one thing they need to do as quickly as attainable.
‘They should resist settle for the accountability, that they’ve full culpability for the abuse that these ladies suffered.
‘At this time, we’re going to set out our declare and the way our declare exhibits an abject failure of company accountability and a failure to supply a protected system of labor.’
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