A high-ranking diplomat complained to the Authorities after his daughter was sexually assaulted and imprisoned by Mohamed Al-Fayed on his yacht within the south of France.
The Mail on Sunday has realized that the disgraced billionaire, who died final yr aged 94, is alleged to have locked the younger girl in a cabin for 36 hours after the assault, described by a supply as one of many worst he carried out.
It’s understood the influential envoy’s high-level protest dealt the tycoon’s hopes of British citizenship a big blow.
On the time – 1989 – Al-Fayed, an Egyptian, was dealing with questions on his takeover of Harrods 4 years earlier.
A Division of Commerce and Trade inquiry had described him as ‘unreliable, unfaithful and bogus’.
Mohamed Al-Fayed pictured sitting on his yacht in Saint Tropez, France, in 2009
In one in every of worst assaults he carried out, Al-Fayed is believed to have locked a younger girl within the cabin of his yacht (pictured) for 36 hours after sexually assaulting her
Alleged sufferer Lindsay Mason (centre) was advised she wanted to see a health care provider earlier than beginning work at Harrods, and was given ‘an invasive examination’
This was later held towards him in his long-running marketing campaign for a British passport.
However sources say the yacht assault, revealed for the primary time as we speak, additionally had a bearing on the choice to show down his 1994 software when John Main was Prime Minister.
Final week it emerged that Al-Fayed, an alleged serial predator, was reported to Scotland Yard by at the least 19 totally different ladies for rape, assault and trafficking.
The alleged crimes have been recorded by police between 2005 and 2023, however none resulted in a cost.
The Metropolitan Police have appealed for extra victims to return ahead and are investigating whether or not costs may very well be introduced towards different people.
Many ladies interviewed for the BBC documentary Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods mentioned that after they started working for Al-Fayed they have been required to endure medicals, together with invasive sexual well being exams.
4 feminine and two male docs performed the exams. The MoS can reveal that one, Dr Thomas Bozek, now 75, remains to be practising. On the time, his then spouse Alison Bozek labored for Al-Fayed.
However on Friday it emerged that the Normal Medical Council (GMC) refused to analyze alleged medical malpractice at Harrods in 2017 as a result of an excessive amount of time had handed and it wasn’t ‘within the higher public curiosity’.
Employed as a PA to Al-Fayed, Lindsay Mason, now 55, was advised she wanted to see a health care provider earlier than beginning work.
She advised the MoS that Dr Bozek carried out ‘an invasive examination on me, with out a chaperone.
‘In addition to a smear take a look at and checks for sexually transmitted infections, he checked my ovaries. I did not obtain any outcomes – they went to Al-Fayed. I hope the GMC begin an enquiry.’
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