Interesting (Times, £). The start of the piece:

“Harrods has intensified attempts to wrest control of Mohamed Al Fayed’s estate from his family amid concerns about its finances and administration, as hundreds of women who accuse the former owner of sexual abuse seek compensation.”

Hundreds of women? I’m reminded of the point William Collins made – using only official statistics – in The Empathy Gap that 77% of the sexual abuse claims made to the police in the UK one year were false. So what proportion of the hundreds of women seeking compensation from Al Fayed’s estate are liars? 99%? 100%? Who knows? But they will doubtless all get large payoffs without having to produce any evidence to back up their allegations.

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