Women working at Harrods were like "lambs to the slaughter" during the years Mohamed Al Fayed was able to use his London department store to carry out abuse at will, one of his accusers has said. Lindsay was one of five women who shared their story with BBC Breakfast, and discussed the night she says she was drugged and subjected to an attempted rape during a work trip to Paris. Jen also spoke on the programme, opening up in public for the very first time about her ordeal 35 years on.
Their stories paint a common picture of how Fayed's behaviour was enabled at Harrods. A growing number of accounts have emerged as part of a major BBC documentary investigation, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods . The five accusers urged other women with stories like theirs to come forward.
Sexual assault, harassment, daily groping, trafficking, attempted rape, false imprisonment: that is what Lindsay says her reality was while working for Fayed as a personal assistant for five months in 1989-90. She has told some of her story before but this morning shared harrowing new details about the night she believes she was drugged and attacked in Paris. Lindsay recounted having dinner with Fayed, another colleague and three celebrities, when she received a "tap on the shoulder by security" and was taken away.
Lindsay assumed she and her colleague were going to accommodation at the Ritz, the exclusive Paris hotel which Fayed also owned. Instead, she was taken to a flat belonging to his son, Dodi. "As you wal.