Woman Claims Salah Fayed Abused Her at Scotland Estate
Will a public inquiry finally hold the enablers to account or is the system itself the primary culprit?
Above: Salah Fayed (left) with his brother Mohamed and Nancy Reagan in 1989. Image credit: Georges De Keerle/Getty Images
The Facts
- A woman using the name Jill told BBC Scotland she was trafficked to the Scottish Highlands, drugged, sexually assaulted and held prisoner in the 1990s by Salah Fayed, the brother of former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, while she worked at the store.
- She alleged she was recruited to what she believed was an executive training scheme and flown on the family's private jet to Inverness, then driven to the Balnagown estate in Easter Ross, where she alleged she was forced to take drugs and repeatedly assaulted.
- Police Scotland said Monday that inquiries into reports of offending linked to Balnagown remained ongoing and that three people had been identified in connection with offending against a number of victims, adding it would be inappropriate to comment further.
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The Spin
Pro-government narrative
Abuse on a remote Highland estate was no accident — the isolation, the private jets and the total control over a young employee's life were the whole point. Survivors who spent decades rebuilding their lives deserve a statutory public inquiry. Every enabler who shuttled women to that estate should have to answer for it.
Government-critical narrative
It's hard to believe justice will be served when the British government and police have taken orders from their friends in high society for so long. Decades of silence were bought from newspapers, lawyers, regulators and Scotland Yard brass long before any survivor was ever believed, and that machinery is still in charge.
