Doctor who carried out STD tests on Mohammed Al Fayeds employees is seen for first time since multiple women came forward with claims of rape and sex assault
A doctor accused of performing STD tests on Mohammed Al Fayeds employees has been seen for the first time since new claims of rape and sexual assault were made by multiple women against the late billionaire.
A doctor accused of performing STD tests on Mohammed Al Fayeds employees has been seen for the first time since new claims of rape and sexual assault were made by multiple women against the late billionaire.
Dr Ann Coxon, who still has a licence to practise medicine, carried out wholly unnecessary medical examinations, according to a survivor known as Natacha who claimed she now had questions to answer.
The doctor allegedly did the tests at her Harley Street clinic in London on behalf of the then-Harrods boss before the results were then shared with him.
The allegations were aired in a BBC documentary last Thursday but today was the first time Dr Coxon has been pictured in public since then.
The doctor, who had not commented on the accusations, was spotted leaving her flat in Notting Hill, west London.
Dr Ann Coxon, who has been accused of performing STD tests on Mohammed Al Fayeds employees, has been seen today leaving her home in Notting Hill, west London
Five women have alleged they were raped by Mohamed Al Fayed, who died last year aged 94
A general view of the Harrods department store in Knightsbridge in London last Friday - Fayed is said to have carried out many of the alleged assaults while owner of the business
The victim Natacha, part of the Justice for Harrods survivors group, has told the BBC: The examinations carried out by Dr Coxon were intrusive and wholly unnecessary.
They also resulted in many employees, including my own, confidential medical information being inappropriately shared within Harrods. This should not have happened.
Many of the women who appeared at the bombshell BBC documentary and podcast Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods revealed that they underwent medicals including invasive sexual health tests when they began working for the department store.
They are now planning a formal complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC) to investigate the allegations made in the documentary.
Dr Coxon – who was also disgraced publicist Max Cliffords physician - qualified from Guys Hospital Medical School in 1963 and has run her medical practice on Harley Street since 1982.
Dr Coxon has not yet responded to the allegations relating to Al Fayed, with a woman answering the phone in her office today telling MailOnline that she was not commenting.
Another doctor who was claimed to have carried out the tests was a Wendy Snell, who died two years ago aged 64.
Dr Ann Coxon has not commented since the claims were made in a BBC investigation last week
She allegedly carried out wholly unnecessary medical tests on Al Fayeds staff
An Al Fayed survivor known only as Natacha says Dr Coxon now has questions to answer
Natacha hugs American lawyer Gloria Allred at a press conference in London last Friday
Three of Mr Al Fayeds accusers (left to right) Katherine (no surname given), Lindsay Mason and Gemma (no surname given), pose for a photograph after a press conference last Friday
A new BBC documentary says the Egyptian-born businessman - who died in London aged 94 last August - carried out the attacks while Harrods boss between 1984 and its sale in 2010
The corporation says more than 20 female former workers at Harrods have come forward to accuse Al Fayed (pictured) of sexual abuse
The GMC confirmed to MailOnline today that Dr Coxon was registered with a licence to practise, which is publicly-available information on the medical register.
A spokeswoman added: The alleged sexual abuse conducted by Mohamed Al Fayed against multiple women is horrifying.
The allegations relating to medical staff working for Mr Al Fayed are deeply concerning.
If we identify any potential fitness to practise concerns about individual doctors, we will thoroughly examine all relevant information and take action as appropriate.
The GMC has the power to look into historical incidents when the allegations meet its threshold for investigation and the body deems it in the public interest to do so.
Former GMC chief executive Niall Dixon said doctors in the UK should not share a patients information without their consent, and even when this is disclosed to an employer it was usually very restricted.
Mohamed Al Fayed pictured with his wife Heini Wathen in 2016. The couple had four children
Former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women including one, Gemma, who worked as his personal assistant between 2007 and 2009
Mohamed Al Fayed pictured alongside Diana, Princess of Wales at a charity event held at Harrods in London in 1996
Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of Harrods and Fulham FC, is seen here in 2018
On the allegations against Al Fayed, Mr Dixon told BBC Radio 4s Today programme that there was no justification whatsoever for revealing a patients information, for example to the chairman of a company.
He added that doctors reading about the claims would be utterly horrified because trust is at the absolute centre of that doctor-patient relationship.
Five women claim they were raped by Al Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct.
The Crown Prosecution Service twice decided not to prosecute him after reviewing files of evidence presented by the police.
Evidence was shown to the CPS in 2009 and 2015, but it decided not to go ahead with the prosecution because there was not a realistic prospect of conviction.
A legal team representing alleged victims confirmed on Saturday that they have had over 150 new inquiries since the airing of the BBC documentary.
