The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has acknowledged that He refused to file a complaint twice. for sex crimes against the deceased businessman Mohamed Al Fayedbelieving that there was no solid evidence against him.
A CPS spokesperson told British media that the Metropolitan Police had transferred its investigations into Al Fayed to the prosecutor’s office for “indecent assault” on a minor in 2008 and for rape in 2013, but In both cases, the formal charges were dismissed. to the then owner of Harrods department store.
“To file a complaint, the CPS must be sure that there is a realistic perspective of sentencing. Each time, our prosecutors have carefully examined the evidence and concluded that it was not the case” said the spokesman.
The Egyptian businessman, who He died last year at the age of 94.has been accused by dozens of women of sexual abuse when they worked for Harrods. Al Fayed was accused in 2008 of “indecent assault” against a minor under 15 years of age, a case which a year later was dismissed by the CPS due to inconsistencies in the evidence. It was also investigated by the rape of a woman in 2013for which the CPS also did not file a complaint.
The prosecutor’s office also asked police to investigate the tycoon in 2018, 2021 and 2023, but on none of those occasions was sufficient evidence presented to formally charge Al Fayed, father of Dodi Al Fayedthe last partner of the late Diana of Wales, who died with her in a road accident in Paris.
The lawyers of the victims who have gone publicsexual assaults Al Fayed’s chief of staff in a BBC documentary said on Saturday that they had already received more than 150 requests. The former head of royal protection also said he had alerted the royal family about the businessman’s reputation before Diana travelled with her sons, Princes William and Harry, to spend a holiday with her son Dodi.
