Mohamed Al Fayed accused of sexually assaulting Fulham Ladies captain at Harrods: ‘I was used’

Ronnie Gibbons was 20 years old; the captain and face of the first professional women’s team in England at Fulham Football Club.The 2000-01 season should have been the best to date of the defender’s career, earning money for playing the game she loved with Fulham Ladies and representing the Republic of Ireland at international level.Yet twice she found herself trapped in a room above the luxury Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, central London, as the club’s billionaire owner, Mohamed Al Fayed, tried to “forcefully” kiss her, made her sit on his knee while he stroked her, then groped her when she tried to get out.Forty women have complained to the Metropolitan Police about Al Fayed, including making claims of rape and sexual assault between 1979 and 2013, since a BBC documentary last month, Al Fayed: Predator At Harrods, in which 20 female employees said he sexually assaulted or raped them. Twenty-one complaints had been made against the former Harrods owner, who…