Mohamed Al Fayed: 65 more women tell BBC about abuse dating back to the 1970s

She soon learned to fear the sound of the ringing and the call of Al Fayed. Expecting to see the children, she would find him alone. That’s when the repeated sexual assaults began, she says.

“The job simply didn’t exist. He didn’t need a nanny. He didn’t want a nanny,” she told the BBC.

Margot says she only saw the children twice for five days and was not allowed to interact with them. Instead, every time she was asked by Al Fayed, she said she had been sexually abused by him – in various locations around the property, including the indoor pool, gardens and study.

She felt trapped. “Once you’re in the house, you can’t get out. You have to go down a long driveway and through large gates at the bottom. He has to give permission for the gates to open,” Margot told the BBC.

She says Al Fayed came into her room early one morning, got in her bed, pushed her against the wall and raped her vaginally and anally.

After he left her room, she immediately packed her suitcase and told Al Fayed later that day that she wanted to leave and didn’t understand why she was there. But he refused, telling her the job description would “become much clearer over time.”

He told her to wait another 24 hours, he would buy her a house and give her more money. She says he became very angry when she told him again that she wanted to leave.