More than 100 women have come forward accusing the former owner of the British store Harrods of sexual abuse and rape. Mohamed Al Fayed, who died last year, was accused in a recent BBC documentary of setting up a system where he recruited young women to work in his store with the aim of assaulting them. The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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