UK Confirms 4 Al-Fayed Accusers as Trafficking Victims Amid 157 Abuse Reports

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 2

Four women in the No One Above group received UK interior ministry rulings between May and July confirming them as human trafficking victims after alleging abuse by Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Their cases, referred through Britain's National Referral Mechanism by charity Unseen UK, span the 1990s to after 2010 and include both domestic and international trafficking.
The decisions add to scrutiny of the late Harrods owner, who died in 2023 without prosecution; a fifth accuser was reported in April to have already won the same trafficking recognition.
London's Metropolitan Police says 157 victims have now reported sexual assault, rape or trafficking allegations, and officers have questioned six suspected enablers but made no arrests.
The trafficking findings may sharpen pressure on investigators, as some accusers say UK police have underplayed that aspect while France is pursuing a parallel probe through a trafficking unit.