Another Woman Accuses Mohamed Al Fayed's Brother Too: a Locked Room, Drugs and an Isolated House on the Scottish Estate

After Mohamed Al Fayed, now his brother too. A woman who worked at the London department store Harrods in the nineties told BBC Scotland that Salah Al Fayed drugged her, sexually assaulted her and kept her isolated on the family estate in Scotland. Salah died in 2010, and Mohamed, father of Dodi Al Fayed and former owner of Harrods, in 2023, aged 94.

The woman, who speaks under a pseudonym to protect herself, says it all began with an offer of a "training programme for future managers". Before that she had worked for Mohamed, in closely watched offices where most employees were young women. When she was moved to his brother, she thought things would be better. "Mohamed was creepy to me," she says.

According to her testimony, it got worse. Twice she was flown on the family's private plane to Inverness, and from there to the Balnagown estate in the Scottish Highlands, where each of the three brothers had his own house. Salah's house was isolated, far from other homes. "He locked me in a room. He told me I had to take this, that it would make me feel good. He lied about what it was, and when I refused, he shouted and forced me," the woman says. According to her, he decided what she ate, how she dressed and whom she spoke to. She managed to escape and tried to warn others.

The testimony comes in a series of allegations that won't stop. Mohamed Al Fayed was never charged in court while he was alive. After his death, a 2024 BBC documentary published the accounts of more than 20 women, and then more than 400 alleged victims and witnesses contacted lawyers. Scottish police confirmed they have identified three people in connection with the reported offences on the Balnagown estate, without naming them, and London police are investigating the allegations against Mohamed.

Both brothers are dead and will never face a judge. But questions remain that someone can still answer: who at Harrods knew, who sent the young employee for "training" with Salah, and why did the owner have to die before the women were heard?