Overview
- The Home Office’s National Referral Mechanism has issued conclusive‑grounds decisions for at least five women, with one decision reported in April and four more recorded between May and July 2026.
- All five cases were referred to the NRM by the charity Unseen UK and the decisions officially identify the women as victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.
- Survivors say the abuse was not isolated to one man but was enabled by a system that recruited, exploited and silenced women across Harrods, private residences and the tycoon’s international properties.
- London’s Metropolitan Police have logged about 156–157 reports and have questioned multiple people suspected of facilitating the crimes in Operation Cornpoppy, but no arrests have been made so far.
- The NRM rulings give survivors access to specialist support and strengthen calls to widen the facilitator inquiry and redress efforts while investigations continue across the UK and France.