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Dr Ann Coxon spoke today for the first time since former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed was unmasked as a sex predator who raped and abused female staff for decades
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Dr Ann Coxton asked if she regrets working for Mr Al-Fayed
A doctor accused of carrying out invasive sexual health checks at Mohamed Al-Fayed ’s behest has denied doing so.
Dr Ann Coxon today appeared for the first time since the former Harrods boss was unmasked as a sex predator who raped and abused female staff for decades.
Asked if she carried out sexual health tests on the billionaire’s female employees, Dr Coxon claimed: “No I did not.” Dr Coxon, a Muslim convert who sometimes goes by the name Amina, spoke while walking from her home to her car in Notting Hill, west London on Thursday afternoon.
Asked if she regrets working for Mr Al-Fayed, she said: “No”. Asked if she would like to apologise to Mr Al-Fayed’s victims, she said: “I have no comment to make.” The doctor’s comments came after it was revealed the Justice For Harrods Survivors group of 37 alleged victims are preparing a complaint against her to the General Medical Council.
The 83-year-old, who was also disgraced publicist Max Clifford’s private physician, still has a licence to practice and operates out of her Harley Street clinic. One of Al Fayed’s victims, a former Harrods worker known only as Natacha, has said she believes the examinations Dr Coxon carried out on her were “wholly unnecessary”.
She said she was sent to the doctor for “Aids and sexually-transmitted disease testing without consent”, adding that she felt she was being checked for her purity. She said: “Examinations carried out by Dr Coxon… resulted in many employee’s – including my own – confidential medical information being inappropriately shared within Harrods.
“This should not have happened. We will be making a formal complaint to the General Medical Council and would expect them to investigate the allegations made in the BBC documentary.” Dr Coxon is said to be one of several medics thought to have carried out medical tests on Al Fayed’s orders. Another, Wendy Snell, the Harrods in-house doctor, died two years ago at 64.
