A Gosport mum allegedly told the Metropolitan Police was allegedly told of sexual misconduct accusations against Mohamed Al Fayed a decade earlier than the force initially acknowledged.

Samantha Jay-Ramsay’s family said she was harassed and sexually assaulted by Mr Al Fayed while she worked at his Knightsbridge department store, Harrods, at the age of 17, and reported his behaviour to the Met in 1995.

The force previously said the first allegations they were made aware of came in 2005, adding that Samantha’s case may not have been transferred onto a police record because some reports in 1995 were paper-based.

Samantha died in a car crash in 2007, aged 28. Her mother had reported claims to police in Gosport who passed them to the Met.

The Met said it asked prosecutors to decide whether to charge former Harrods and Fulham FC owner Mr Al Fayed in relation to only two out of 21 women who made allegations, including of rape and sexual assault, between 2005 and 2023.

Evidence was shown to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2009 and 2015, but it decided not to go ahead with either because there was not “a realistic prospect of conviction”.

Samantha’s mother Wendy Ramsay and sister Emma Willis have contacted solicitors firm Leigh Day to look at legal options, with the pair alleging that the Met refused to help her.

They have supported calls for a public inquiry into the alleged abuse by Mr Al Fayed.

Ms Willis said: “It really infuriates me that if the police had dealt with it properly back then her life would have been different.

“Back then she was one of the only people to have been brave enough to go to the police and if they had dealt with it properly how many women could have been saved from his abuse?”

She continued: “We know 100 per cent my sister would’ve been speaking out if she was here.

“No one believed her or did anything about it and that’s enough to make anyone go crazy.

“She reported what happened to her 30 years ago and he was allowed to continue for another 20 years. That must have played on her mind.

“I do hold Al Fayed responsible. I really believe if it hadn’t happened to her then her life would have been different.

“This happened just as she was turning into an adult, this isn’t what she should have been dealing with going into adulthood."

Samantha previously told the News Of The World newspaper in 1998 that Mr Al Fayed said she would need to have a medical and told her: “I like you to be clean. I hope you use Dettol, it’s the best”.

She then alleged he gripped her face, kissed her and touched her inappropriately before handing her £200.

Samantha said one of Mr Al Fayed’s personal assistants berated her for making a complaint, before the ex-Harrods owner allegedly shouted at her and fired her.