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Harrods says it is looking into whether any current members of staff were involved in any of the allegations against the store's former owner, Mohamed Al Fayed.
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00:00Harrods says it is looking into whether any current members of staff were involved in
00:04any of the allegations against the store's former owner, Mohammed Al-Fayed.
00:09One former Harrods employee, known as Jessica, has told BBC News a manager, who still works at
00:16the store, failed to investigate when she complained about Fayed's inappropriate behaviour.
00:21Jessica alleges she was pushed against a wall and sexually assaulted by Fayed in 2008,
00:27when she was 22. The store says there is an ongoing internal review which includes,
00:33looking at whether any current staff were involved in any of the allegations either
00:37directly or indirectly. Fayed, who died last year aged 94, is accused of multiple
00:43rapes and sexual assaults by several women who worked for him, many of whom felt unable
00:48to report what had happened until recently. They made the claims in the BBC documentary
00:54and podcast Al-Fayed, Predator at Harrods. Dozens more women have been in touch since
01:00the programme aired last week. Jessica, not her real name, said after she was sexually
01:06assaulted she went to HR to complain and to hand her notice in.
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