The complaints address concerns about the quality of police response and, in the case of the 2013 investigation, how details came to be disclosed publicly.

Met Police bosses have referred the force to the police watchdog over officers' handling of two sexual assault claims against Mohamed Al Fayed.

Two women have raised complaints about the force's response to an investigation into Al Fayed in 2013.

Britain's police watchdog said it is assessing complaints over how police handled sex crime allegations made against Mohamed Al Fayed.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct will review two cases the Met Police investigated in 2008 and 2013.