Mohamed Al Fayed: 65 more women tell BBC of abuse, stretching back to 1970s

She soon learned to fear the sound of it ringing and Al Fayed summoning her. Expecting to see the children, she would arrive to find him alone. This is when she says the repeated sexual assaults started.

“The job just didn’t exist. He didn’t need a nanny. He didn’t want a nanny,” she told the BBC.

For five days, Margot says she only saw the children twice and was not allowed to interact with them. Instead each time she was requested by Al Fayed, she says she was sexually assaulted by him – in different locations on the estate, including the indoor pool, gardens and study.

She felt trapped. “Once you get in the house, you can’t get out. You have to go down a long driveway and through big gates at the bottom. He’s got to give permission for the gates to open,” Margot told the BBC.

In the early hours one morning, she says Al Fayed came into her room, got into her bed, pressed her against the wall, and raped her vaginally and anally.

After he left her room, she immediately packed her case and told Al Fayed later that day that she wanted to leave and did not understand why she was there. But he refused and told her the job description would “become much clearer with time”.

He told her to give it 24 more hours, that he was going to buy her a house and give her more money. She says he got very angry when she again told him she wanted to leave.