A STABLE hand who worked for Mohamed Fayed has told how the sex predator got teenagers to trot past him with his horses so he could ogle them.
The woman, just 15 in 1987, was one of a team employed to look after the Harrods tycoon’s horses, said he “got off” on humiliating his staff and leaving them fearful for their jobs.
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She revealed he tried to get her to visit him in London — and she had to make up having a boyfriend to wade off his advances.
Recalling working for him, she said: “He was so creepy. He’d sit in a marquee in front of his lawn and bark at us to jog by him with his horses so he could see our young bodies moving up and down.
“He’d like to watch us in our Harrods tops and jodhpurs.”
She said that the Egyptian billionaire, who died last year aged 94, went around his Barrow Green Estate in Surrey offering up cash to girls he liked.
She said: “People were scared of losing their jobs and of upsetting him – and he got off on that.
“Workers were on tenterhooks but he feared no repercussions and was God of his domain.”
The woman said some girls were lured to work him for him in London with the promises of success and money — who would then go on to become victims.
Of her own close call, she said: “He knew how young I was but would still ask me to go to London and visit him — when he wouldn’t have his family around him.
“I pretended that I had a boyfriend to get out of it.”
She added: “His security, all ex-military police, knew exactly what he was like but we were just told to go along with it and do whatever he said. He was sick and didn’t fear any comebacks.”
More than 150 women have come forward to tell of how Fayed sexually abused them since the BBC2 documentary Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods exposed him as a serial sex attacker.
Bruce Drummond, a barrister for some of the compensation claims against Harrods, said: “This is the worst case of corporate sexual exploitation of young women that I have ever seen, and I think probably the world has ever seen.”
The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed it twice failed to charge Fayed.
The first was in 2009 when PM Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions and again in 2015 under Dame Alison Saunders.
A spokeswoman said: “To bring a prosecution the CPS must be confident there is a realistic prospect of conviction. In each instance our prosecutors looked carefully at the evidence and concluded this was not the case.”
One of Fayed’s sons, Omar, 36, alleged the BBC documentary was a bid to distract from its disgraced ex-newsreader Huw Edwards, now a convicted paedophile sex offender.
He told a pal: “I think the Beeb have had this up their back pocket.”
Harrods admitted that it had settled a number of claims over the past 18 months.
It said: “We are utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed … The Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed.”
‘150 VICTIMS’ SEEK HELP
THE number of disgraced Mohamed Fayed’s alleged victims to have approached lawyers was last night said to be “150 and rising”.
One lawyer said the final number could outstrip the near 600 molested, police found, by BBC pervert Jimmy Savile.
Dean Armstrong KC said the figure “may be much, much greater”.
He added: “The tentacles of the Fayed atrocities . . . are absolutely huge.”
He said the Crown Prosecution Service and others who tolerated Fayed’s behaviour had “questions to answer” over the “monster who [was] clearly hiding in plain sight”.
Deputy PM Angela Rayner said: “What really concerns me . . . is powerful people who seem to get away with it.”
Harrods has set up a dedicated website for women molested by the Fayed to claim compensation.
By Sam Creed