Harrods settling Al Fayed intimacyual wrongdoing claims with more than 250 people | Mohamed Al Fayed

Harrods has said more than 250 people are part of its process to end compensation claims over alleged intimacyual wrongdoing by Mohamed Al Fayed.

The department store in Knightsbridge, west London, said it had “endd a number of claims with women” made aacquirest its establisher owner since last year.

It inserted that since the Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods recordary was widecast on the BBC last month, there were more than 250 individuals “now in the Harrods process to end claims honestly with the business”.

The programme telled the claims of five women who said they were sexual batteryd by the entrepreneur, who died in 2023 at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging intimacyual wrongdoing.

In a statement on Monday, Harrods said: “Since 2023, Harrods endd a number of claims with women who alleged historic intimacyual wrongdoing by Fayed.

“Since the airing of the recordary, so far there are over 250-plus individuals who are now in Harrods’ process to end claims honestly with the business.”

On Saturday Scotland Yard said a “detailed and thocimpolite” evaluate of allegations aacquirest Al Fayed was taking place, amid criticism of their actions in response to women who said they had been mistreatmentd.

The force inserted that after recent media coverage and its accessible requests for people to come forward and speak to the police, officers have been reach outed by 60 people telling their experiences.

The Metropolitan police had asked prosecutors to choose whether to accuse Al Fayed in relation to two out of 21 women who had made allegations, including of sexual battery and intimacyual attack, between 2005 and 2023.

Evidence was shown to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2009 and 2015, but it choosed not to go ahead with either case becaemploy there was not “a authenticistic prospect of conviction”.

The Met sought “timely spendigative advice” from the CPS after 10 other allegations, but no further action was getn.

Last week, Ronnie Gibbons, a establisher Fulham women’s captain, alleged she was intimacyupartner attacked by Al Fayed, who was also the owner of Fulham football club, in 2000.

Gibbons, who was 20 at the time, said she was forcefilledy kissed, groped and had twice felt trapped in a room by the businessman.

Earlier this month, the group Justice for Harrods Survivors said the number of women “senseing protected to come forward” was “increasing on a daily basis”.