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Police dismissed teenager's sexual assault claim against Fayed in 1995
The Guardian
|November 02, 2024
Police dismissed a teenage girl who reported an alleged sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed in 1995, saying they would add her name to a pile of other similar claims.
Last month the Metropolitan police said the first report of sexual assault by the Harrods owner had been made in 2005. After the family of Samantha-Jane Ramsay, who has since died, came forward, the force said it had no computer record of her report but it may have been paper-based and not transferred.
Her family has now contacted Leigh Day, a law firm that has received allegations of sexual misconduct against Fayed from more than 100 women. "We know 100% my sister would have been speaking out if she was here," her sister, Emma Wills.
This story is from the November 02, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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