It has been disclosed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that it did not file charges against Mohamed al Fayed for two instances of sexual abuse.

Lawyers for putative victims recently referred to Fayed, who passed away at the age of 94, as a "monster".

The former owner of Harrods has been accused by women of sexual assault and rape, alleging that he was "cherry-picking" employees to mistreat in his executive suite.

Twice, the CPS acknowledged receiving evidence from the Met Police. The first occurred in 2009 in relation to an alleged 2008 indecent assault on a fifteen-year-old girl, and the second occurred in 2015 in relation to a 2013 rape allegation.

"Conflicting evidence" and a "realistic prospect of conviction" led to the dismissal of both cases.
In 2018, 2021, and 2023, the CPS advised police on early investigations, but they did not have complete evidence.A spokesperson for the CPS said: "To bring a prosecution the CPS must be confident there is a realistic prospect of conviction - in each instance, our prosecutors looked carefully at the evidence and concluded this wasn't the case."

It also emergedon Saturday that extra precautions were put in place to protect Fulham's women's football team from the club's late owner.

In a recent BBC documentary, 20 female ex-employees of Harrods said the billionaire, who died last year aged 94, sexually assaulted or raped them. Fayed owned Harrods from 1985 to 2010, and owned Fulham FC from 1997 to 2013.

The documentary revealed Fayed would tour the shop floor picking out attractive young female sales assistants to be called to his office.

Prior to this, Harrods declared that it was “utterly appalled” by the claims of mistreatment and that it has placed a page on its website urging former workers to report any such claims.

Fulham was acquired by Mr. Al Fayed in 1997, and under his tenure, the team peaked in Europa League qualification and surged to the top half of the Premier League in the early 2000s.

In 2013, he sold the team.