Nigel Blow said department store Fenwick ‘seems to have found me guilty by association’ after Mohamed Al Fayed claims.

Nigel Blow, a long-serving former Harrods executive, has decided not to become the boss of department store Fenwick despite being due to start in the role this month, the BBC has learned. Mr Blow worked at Harrods for 14 years from 1992 to 2007,

A former Harrods executive will not join Fenwick as its new chief executive amid a growing fallout over claims of sexual abuse by Mohamed Fayed.

More than 100 women have claimed Al Fayed, who died last year aged 94, assaulted or raped them following a shocking probe by the BBC.

A former senior executive at Harrods has pulled out of a move to become the boss of department store Fenwick, Newcastle, weeks before he was due to start.