{"id":556551,"date":"2026-04-29T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556551\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:13:12","slug":"al-fayed-survivor-was-modern-slavery-victim-home-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556551\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Fayed survivor was modern slavery victim, Home Office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for No One Above said: &#8220;The government has recognised what survivors and experts said from the start: this was trafficking. NOA campaigned tirelessly for this &#8211; because only a trafficking investigation can gather the evidence needed for meaningful accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Police said it had broadened its Al Fayed abuse investigation to include human trafficking. It is understood to have strengthened its team with officers with a background in modern slavery and will contact victims who it feels could be referred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March it announced that three women and a man had been interviewed under caution over offences including human trafficking for sexual exploitation and facilitating rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said that 154 victims had come forward and reported allegations of sexual assault, rape, sexual exploitation and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Home Office would not confirm details of any NRM referrals or specific cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said the home secretary had &#8220;committed to ensuring that the Home Office supports agencies to work effectively together, and that any systemic issues raised by survivors are given consideration&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for No One Above said: &#8220;The government has recognised what survivors and experts said from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}