Former Harrods Employee Says She Was Trafficked to a Highland Estate and Drugged and Abused by Salah Fayed
A woman using the pseudonym Jill has told BBC Scotland that in the 1990s, as a young employee at the Harrods department store in London, she was recruited under the pretense of an executive training scheme and flown twice on the Fayed family's private jet to Balnagown, the family estate in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands. She says she was held there against her will, drugged and repeatedly sexually assaulted by Salah Fayed.
Jill described Salah Fayed's house on the estate as smaller and isolated, overlooking a valley with forest behind it, and said each of the three brothers had a residence on the estate. She recalled that the first time he forced her to take drugs he first tried to trick her, and when she refused he screamed at her and forced her to take them; she said the drugs were part of his method of assaulting her. Salah Fayed, a brother of the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, died of pancreatic cancer in 2010. Mohamed Al Fayed died in 2023, and since then hundreds of women have accused the two brothers of sexual abuse.
Police Scotland confirmed that three people have been identified in connection with offending against a number of victims at Balnagown and that inquiries remain ongoing. London's Metropolitan Police is separately investigating a large number of allegations linked to the Fayed brothers and those suspected of facilitating their offending, including human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Jill said she has reported her allegations to the Metropolitan Police and is pursuing civil legal action.
Allegations against the Fayed brothers have continued to grow. Since a BBC documentary aired in 2024, more than 400 allegations have been made against the brothers. According to The Observer on November 10, French police last month searched the Ritz Paris as part of a related investigation, and French prosecutors had earlier opened a preliminary investigation into charges including rape and human trafficking by an organized group. (Source: BBC)
Source: BBC
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Photo: 图：苏格兰高地 Easter Ross 的 Balnagown 城堡，法耶德家族庄园所在地。照片：sylvia duckworth 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Balnagown Castle in Easter Ross, in the Scottish Highlands, the site of the Fayed family estate. Photo by sylvia duckworth, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
