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To be honest it's made me hot and bothered, I think he comes across pleasant and we all know he's not.
Gemma, who worked as his personal assistant between 2007 and 2009, told the documentary
Every young lady in his orbit was a target.
Mr Drummond addedWe are coming for you.”
Lawyers representing the sex fiend’s accusers also announced they had
It’s the first of hundreds to come; it’s going to snowball and snowball,
Drummond said
It’s horrifying and it’s incredibly sad – we thought there were only few of us that went through this, and we’re realising it’s hundreds and hundreds of women over a 25- to 30-year period.”
Jen, who was also backing a boycott, saidWho from Harrods designed and is leading this ongoing internal review? Did anyone who was still within the business from the Al Fayed’s time, recuse themselves from discussion over the design and execution of this review?”
The barrister Maria Mulla askedIt was a very large web. Some of them are still alive – it’s not in our ability to name names or announce who those individuals are.”
Asked how many “enablers” of Fayed’s alleged sexual misconduct had been identified by the group, Mulla saidA boycott is the very least that people can do to stand united with the victims.”
He saidIn lots of cases there are trust issues, because a lot of our survivors in their hours of need went to the police and little or nothing was done.”
He saidI was contacted by John Mcnamara, who was then head of security from Mohamed, who asked me to think very carefully about my involvement in Vanity Fair and just to remind me that he knew where I lived and he knew where my parents lived, and wouldn’t it be terrible if something would happen to either them or myself? It’s that kind of terror that kept us all so quiet for so long.”
She saidThe sheer scale of abuse perpetrated by Al Fayed, and facilitated by those around him, sadly, continues to grow,
Armstrong told a news conference in London
That, in our opinion, is an industrial scale abuse,
Drummond said, ... adding abuseOur survivors have been let down by significant parts of our society, and the threats to them and obstacles placed in front of us as we seek to navigate the path to justice for them has not dimmed – in fact it’s enhanced – our resolve.”
The lawyer added
This statement of our intent is the clearest signal possible that it is time for Harrods, time for the Fayed estate and time for Fulham FC amongst other sporting institutions to understand that now is the time to do the right thing
he added