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Speaker 1: Devin Gray is how UKN and Europe correspondent Five women

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Speaker 1: say that they've been raped by the former Herod's boss,

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Speaker 1: Muhammad al Fayed, of course, father of Dodie al Fayed Gevin.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed run so. Muhammed al Fayed was a very

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Speaker 2: colorful figure. He died last year at the age of

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Speaker 2: ninety four. Colorful figure because for many years he ran

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Speaker 2: the luxury London department store. Harold's became sort of a

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Speaker 2: bit of a TV personality as well, ingratiated himself with

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Speaker 2: the royal family and of course, as you said, his

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Speaker 2: son later died in a car crash, having been partnered

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Speaker 2: alongside Diana, the Princess of Wales back in nineteen ninety seven. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: the new generation beginning to know the al Fayheds through

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Speaker 2: the series of The Crown. But it is tonight Muhammad

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Speaker 2: al Fhaired and his relationship with his former female ex employees.

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Speaker 2: They are claiming that the billionaire raped them or at

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Speaker 2: least sexually assaulted them. Now twenty have come forward in total,

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Speaker 2: and they say that Harold's not only failed to intervene,

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Speaker 2: but they actually helped cover up abuse allegations. When al

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Speaker 2: faired was owning it and in charge of it. Harrod's

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Speaker 2: current owners say they're utterly apported by the allegations and

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Speaker 2: that these victims had been jailed for what the store

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Speaker 2: sincerely apologized and the fired faced sexual assault claims while

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Speaker 2: he was alive run that these allegations now are much

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Speaker 2: much more serious and of an unprecedented scale.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely he did. The UK prisoners that were released as

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Speaker 1: part of the overcrowding deal to reduce the numbers in

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Speaker 1: the prisons, what's happened with their bracelets?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a very very good question, Ryan. Many of

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Speaker 2: them were supposed to be wearing these tags, electronic tags,

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Speaker 2: so that the authorities can keep an on them, they

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Speaker 2: know where they are and sometimes they have to attend

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Speaker 2: a police station as well. Of course, some one seven

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Speaker 2: hundred prisoners were left out early in England and Wales

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Speaker 2: last week because of overcrowding in prisons. Now we learn

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Speaker 2: that some of them were released but weren't given electronic

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Speaker 2: tagging devices despite it being a condition of their release.

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Speaker 2: The Ministry of Justice is blaming the contractor and saying

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Speaker 2: there's been a shortage of the tag. So not only

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Speaker 2: is there a shorten of prison spaces, but they were

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Speaker 2: still allowed out early, and then we learned as a

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Speaker 2: shortage of the tags. The contractor says it's doing everything

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Speaker 2: it can to rectify this. The government is threating some

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Speaker 2: sort of compensation deal if the situation isn't sorted out either.

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Speaker 2: But there are some in the justice industry, as that

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Speaker 2: were in the justice sector, who are saying this is

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Speaker 2: a disaster waiting to happen, allowing out these people without

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Speaker 2: a tag. And incidentally, if he wondered, the Chief Inspector

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Speaker 2: Probation believes about one in three of those released early

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Speaker 2: will re offend.

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Speaker 1: That is the dumbest thing I've heard this morning. Givin

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Speaker 1: thank you very much to that Kevin Gray, who's a

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Speaker 1: UK in Europe correspondent. Imagine getting you know, or line

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Speaker 1: them all up, the doors open and you say, oh, Extal,

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Speaker 1: we've run out of tag so you can go anyway?

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Speaker 1: Who made that call?

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