About NOA
No One Above (NOA) is a survivor-led collective built on integrity, compassion, and accountability. We are survivors of exploitation and trafficking connected to Fayed-controlled organisations including Harrods.
We created NOA to challenge and dismantle the systems of impunity that allow powerful individuals and institutions to evade accountability.
We work to expose and confront the structures that protect perpetrators, while advancing survivor-led advocacy, legal and policy reform. Through informed public engagement and strategic action, we strive to build a future where justice is not determined by power, privilege, or position – because no one is safe when anyone is above the law.
Mission
After years of silence, dismissal, and institutional inaction, our lived experience shapes every aspect of our mission. Our work is survivor-led, trauma-informed, and grounded in the pursuit of meaningful accountability.
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Investigation of the full, international scope of criminality in the Fayed/Harrods case
– including sex trafficking
The abuse of hundreds of young women and girls by Fayed and his associates was enabled by a sophisticated sex trafficking operation. Anti-trafficking laws require police to look beyond individual offenders to investigate wider networks, recruitment chains, financial flows and institutional complicity.
While French authorities have opened an investigation into aggravated human trafficking linked to the same factual background, the Met will not confirm that it is investigating trafficking at all.
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Accountability for the failure of public and private institutions to protect women and girls – or hold perpetrators to account
A statutory public inquiry, with the power to compel testimony, must explain how public and private institutions failed to protect victims – and shielded perpetrators – despite a pattern of exploitation spanning decades.
A Government unable to account for the abandonment of the Fayeds’ young victims cannot credibly claim to safeguard young people today.
Responsibility for safeguarding also rests with the Metropolitan Police, the General Medical Council, Harrods, and other private institutions, each of which owed duties of care and oversight to young women and girls entrapped in the Fayed system of exploitation.
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Legal reforms to provide equal access to justice for survivors of powerful perpetrators
Victims lack real access to justice when powerful perpetrators can buy impunity. The Fayeds hid organised rape and abuse by gagging the press, corrupting police, forcing NDAs, and settling claims out of court.
The injustice persists today: Harrods, implicated in the abuse, controls a private compensation scheme that gives it power over survivors’ evidence. Such technically legal tactics that weaponise the law against victims are incompatible with justice.
Notice
NOA is an independent advocacy project led by survivors of exploitation and trafficking at Fayed-controlled organisations. We’re not a law firm, legal service, or government body — and we’re not affiliated with any law firm or other interested party. Our work exists to expose how UK institutions protect power and to demand accountability for survivors. Nothing here is legal or medical advice. It’s public information, survivor insight, and evidence-based campaigning.
How we formed
No One Above was born out of connection – survivors finding one another through many paths. Some through introductions. Others through the legal system. Many through sheer determination to be heard.
Across three decades, our personal stories trace back to multiple Fayed-owned entities, bound by common threads of trauma, courage, and resolve. What began as individuals reaching out for understanding grew into a collective voice, a community united by purpose. From those first conversations came momentum. From that momentum, a movement. No One Above was formed – a survivor-led network built on truth, accountability, and mutual support.
For decades, women who spoke of abuse linked to the Harrods empire were met with disbelief, bureaucracy, or silence. Since Mohamed Fayed’s death in 2023, many have learned to document their stories, find one another, and press for recognition long after the state turned away. Their courage is forcing a reckoning that official inquiries never began. They are not only survivors of abuse, but of a system that protects reputation over truth, prestige over safety, and the powerful over the powerless.
From that determination came No One Above, founded on a simple belief: accountability cannot depend on status. Together, we are building what the state refuses to: a collective record of truth.
Our name is both a statement and a demand:
No one above scrutiny.
No one above the law.
No one above survivors.
To deny these women recognition as trafficking victims is to erase their rights, diminish their suffering, and let corporate entities escape liability. The British justice system moved swiftly to protect Fayed’s reputation before his death - but hesitates to defend the women trafficked through his companies. That imbalance lies at the heart of our campaign. These women have done what the state would not: gathered evidence, mapped networks, and built a public record. The least this country can do is listen - and act.
If Britain can defend billionaires, royalty, and reputations with such efficiency, it can defend the women harmed in their shadow.
