Investigative author Tom Bower has released a new book about former Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, describing him as a “total and utter monster” who allegedly corrupted British institutions, including Buckingham Palace.
In an interview with Nigel Farage on GB News, Bower delivered a scathing assessment of Al-Fayed’s character and influence.
He claimed the businessman corrupted police, politicians and even the palace in his quest for power and acceptance.
“He was a total and utter monster, and everyone knew that he was a sexual predator,” Bower told Farage.
Tom Bower claims Al-Fayed was a ‘total and utter monster’
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The book details how Al-Fayed allegedly used his wealth to manipulate British institutions. Bower explained that Al-Fayed was “desperate for a British passport” but was denied because of his criminal past.
“He’d been in Haiti, and had been terribly crooked there, and he’d been in Dubai, being very crooked there,” said Bower.
According to the author, British institutions were widely compromised by Al-Fayed’s influence.
“The police were corrupted. The politicians were corrupted. The palace was corrupted,” he claimed.
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Mohamed Al Fayed was accused of rape and sexual assault by dozens of women over a period of at least 20 yearsPABower alleged that even the Royal Family was targeted, with Al-Fayed hosting the Queen and Prince Philip at the Windsor Horse Show.
“There were people in the palace who were taking hampers and other things from him as he sought ways in,” Bower said.
Bower detailed Al-Fayed’s methods of corruption during the interview, describing how he would carry two briefcases.
“One with his office papers, the other with £50 notes. And he’d hand them out to MPs, to police, to everybody, and he got away with it,” Bower revealed.
Bower told GB News that Al-Fayed was a ‘monster that couldn’t be slayed’
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The author claimed Al-Fayed would use police to target those who crossed him.
“He’d get his police protection officers to go to people who he didn’t like, or employees or women, and threaten them with false arrest and sometimes did arrest them or got them locked up, or just literally threatened to beat them up.”
He criticised the British Establishment for tolerating Al-Fayed’s claims for a decade: “For ten years, the British Establishment put up with his lie that Prince Philip had orchestrated with MI6.”
Bower characterised Al-Fayed as “a monster who literally couldn’t be slayed”.
The author also criticised media coverage following Al-Fayed’s death: “The biggest scandal was that when he died, the BBC that night broadcast eulogies about him,” Bower said.
He claimed the BBC refused to air his critical assessment of Al-Fayed as “a criminal, rapist, a pimp, and corrupt”.