Former Met Police chief helped Mohamed Al Fayed's younger brother evade a drugs scandal, ex-Harrod's security boss claims By INDERDEEP BAINS DEPUTY CHIEF REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 November 2024 | Updated: 22:10 GMT, 24 November 2024 e-mail View comments A Met police chief helped Mohamed Al Fayed’s younger brother evade a drugs scandal, according to an ex-Harrods security boss. Disgraced Al Fayed and his aides were said to able to call on the help of former Met Commissioner Sir David McNee, according to the Sunday Times. Bob Loftus, 83, director of security at Harrods between 1987 and 1996, revealed in a statement how Al Fayed’s influence reached the very top of Scotland Yard.
He claimed that on one occasion McNee, who served as Met commissioner from 1977 to 1982, had ‘intervened’ to stop Al Fayed’s brother Salah from becoming embroiled in a drugs scandal. Loftus said that Salah Fayed, who has also posthumously been accused of abusing Harrods’ workers, was with his secretary in Scotland in 1993 when they accidentally left a bag in a taxi. CID officers in Moray found the luggage contained crack cocaine, a phial of white tablets and a ‘well used homemade pipe’ as well as Fayed’s passport, reported the Sunday Times.
Loftus alleged in his statement in 1997 that the secretary was made to take the blame to protect Salah Fayed, who died aged 71 of cancer in 2010. However, he claimed no prosecutions were brought after McNee persuaded the Sc.
