Predator Mohamed Al-Fayed sponsored a Metropolitan Police automotive a yr after he was publicly accused of raping and sexually assaulting dozens of ladies, MailOnline can reveal.
In footage more likely to trigger main embarrassment to Scotland Yard, the wicked billionaire grins from behind the wheel of the blue and white marked Rover carrying a police-issue peaked cap.
The driving force’s door bears the inscription, ‘This automotive is sponsored by Harrods’, within the retailer’s distinctive script.
MailOnline found the long-forgotten photographs days after a BBC documentary confirmed the Egyptian-born businessman and TV star to be a prolific sexual predator who for greater than three many years used wealth and standing to abuse women and girls on his payroll.
Greater than 20 instructed the Company how he’d assaulted them, with 4 saying they’d been raped.
Mohamed Al Fayed is accused of raping a number of ladies throughout his time as Harrods proprietor from 1984 to 2010
On this image the disgraced businessman could be seen grinning from behind the wheel of a blue and white marked Rover that he sponsored
The driving force’s door of the automobile (pictured) bears the inscription, ‘This automotive is sponsored by Harrods’, within the retailer’s distinctive script
It comes as a former Metropolitan Police officer who was recruited to work as a Harrods safety guard reveals the uncomfortably shut relationship Fayed had with legislation enforcement.
Deborah Bull, 64, stated: ‘I’d say the automotive could be sat outdoors Harrods most days and the officers within the automobile would come into safety or the shop. I noticed them on a few events having a cup of tea within the safety workplace.
‘If it wasn’t his concept Al-Fayed was actually on in, his head of safety John MacNamara was an ex-Met copper and they might’ve laughed at one thing like this.’
In a press release through the 1996 publicity stunt, Fayed stated he was gifting the automobile as a result of ‘all of us have a stake in making our metropolis a safer and higher place’.
Two years earlier than the image was taken, MacNamara, dubbed ‘Mac the Knife’ – a former Met Superintendant – allegedly had a lady arrested after studying she deliberate to accuse Fayed of sexual assault at a tribunal.
MacNamara was allegedly on the coronary heart of Al Fayed’s chilling marketing campaign to silence his victims.
He was described by one former Harrods colleague as a ‘nasty piece of labor’.
The ex-security guard instructed the BBC: ‘He would threaten folks and use his energy as an ex-copper. I do know for a reality MacNamara knocked on somebody’s door personally and threatened a lady.’
Deborah Bull, 64, was a member of Harrods’ ‘Inexperienced Group’ between 1996 and 1997
Mohamed Al Fayed dons a Victoria emerald and diamond tiara as he launches Harrods’ New Yr sale in 2001
Mohamed Al Fayed with the Queen in 1997. His enterprise connections and charity work noticed him mixing with excessive society regardless of his complaints about what he noticed as institution bias
In 1995 – a yr earlier than Fayed purchased the police a automotive – Self-importance Honest revealed an article alleging racism, workers surveillance and sexual misconduct by him towards Harrods workers.
Deborah instructed MailOnline that she first began working on the division retailer in 1996 after she was headhunted by a safety recruitment agency.
She stated: ‘I used to be approached by a recruitment company referred to as Met Defend, that are ex law enforcement officials that recruit that type of work. They approached me and stated: ‘look, we predict you would be wonderful for this job’.
‘They would not inform me what the corporate was, however they stated: ‘look, while you agree to come back for an interview, then we’ll inform you the place it’s’.
‘The cash was wonderful, and it appeared good on paper, from what I may see. So I went for the interview, and clearly I came upon it was Harrods safety.
‘I received the job the next week, and it occurred very, in a short time, which was good in a manner, however I used to be type of greatly surprised.’
She described her time working for the Egyptian billionaire as a ‘residing hell’ throughout which she was bodily abused by different safety workers, ‘99% of which had been males’.
Deborah instructed MailOnline concerning the ‘sinister and horrible’ ambiance at Harrods, recalling one incident the place a lady was allegedly ‘indecently assaulted’ by Al-Fayed inside his soundproofed workplace.
The mother-of-three give up in 1997, the yr after becoming a member of and re-joined the Met from 2002 to 2009.
Late billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed has been described as ‘a monster’ amid claims he raped a number of ladies working for him at Harrods
Some the sexual assaults Fayed is accused of came about inside his workplace in Harrods (pictured)
Some are additionally stated to have been carried out at his Park Lane property in London (pictured)
She determined to take the corporate to a tribunal, after in search of recommendation from attorneys who instructed her had a declare for sexual harassment and discrimination, following the bodily and verbal abuse she obtained from male colleagues.
It was solely years later that she appeared in courtroom for the tribunal listening to, throughout which, she claimed Al-Fayed and his workforce had put her below surveillance.
‘Throughout that point, I came upon that they’d been following me, taking images of me and my daughter, and bugged my home cellphone.’
She claimed she was additionally tailed by members of the safety workforce who additionally took photographs of her and her household after they went to the grocery store.
‘So many people lived in concern and we saved it secret for as long as no one thought we had been telling the reality,’ she stated.
‘I’ve by no means gone again into Harrods since I left in 1997, I used to be too terrified to return there.
‘However thank goodness we are actually ready to have the ability to discuss it.’
