Al Fayed wins large libel award

MOHAMED AL FAYED and Harrods yesterday accepted substantial undisclosed damages over an article which alleged that they were in some way connected with a plot to supply terrorists with enriched uranium.

Solicitor Laurence Harris told Mr Justice Eady at the High Court in London that the allegations, made in The Sunday Telegraph in May 2002, were wholly untrue.

The “serious and defamatory” comments repeated allegations previously raised in a French newspaper which had recently been ordered by a French court to publish an apology and pay damages.