Mohamed Al Fayed's daughter denies using her bodyguards to rob her brother's £1,900 iPhone at the late tycoon's Surrey mansion

Mohamed Al Fayed’s daughter denied using her bodyguards to rob her brother’s mobile phone at the late tycoon’s Surrey mansion at a court hearing today.

Camilla Fayed, 39, along with her husband Mohamed Esreb, 43, is accused of ordering their close protection officers Matthew Littlewood, 34, and Andrew Bott, 51, to steal Omar Fayed’s £1,900 iPhone.

Prosecutors say the robbery took place in the gym of Barrow Green Court, the family’s lavish Grade-I listed estate in Oxted, Surrey.

Fayed entered the dock at Guildford Crown Court today wearing a black jacket with her hair tied in a bun and denied a single count of robbery along with Esreb and Bott.

Littlewood, a decorated Afghanistan veteran, was excused from the hearing because he is working overseas and will enter a plea at a later date.

All four defendants are charged with a robbery said to have taken place on 18 May, 2020.

After abandoning a career as a fashion entrepreneur by selling her label, Issa, to House of Fraser in 2017, Fayed opened Farmacy, an upmarket Vegan restaurant in Notting Hill that counts Madonna and Stella McCartney among its patrons.

Corporal Matthew Littlewood, her bodyguard and co-accused, was awarded a Brigadier's Commendation for Distinguished Service for his service across three tours of Afghanistan, where he led a reconnaissance team tasked with uncovering Taliban weapons caches and capturing 'high-value targets'.

His CV says that he offers 'discreet and overt close protection and protective surveillance for an ultra high net worth family'.

It adds that he can 'easily navigate busy central London traffic', and is capable of 'liaising with high-end restaurant and club managers in London and abroad'.

Mr Al-Fayed was killed at the age of 94 by a heart attack last August on the eve of the 26th anniversary of his son, Dodi's, death alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Paris car accident.

He is interred next to Dodi in a mausoleum on the Oxted estate's grounds.

The former Harrods owner rose from a poverty-stricken childhood in the backstreets of Egyptian city Alexandrian to the top of British high society - amassing a £1.3bn fortune in the process.

He still owned the Paris Ritz - which he bought in 1979 - upon his death.

His second wife Heini Wathen, whom he married in 1985, will be tasked with splitting an inherited property empire that includes swanky apartment buildings that overlook Hyde Park, a Scottish castle and apartments in New York between his four children.

Disentangling his holdings is expected to take some time as Al-Fayed is believed to have maintained ownership through a string of trusts in tax havens such as Bermuda, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.

The details of his property portfolio - and what he still owned at his death - remain unclear. But the Paris Ritz alone may be worth £500 million, and the Oxted mansion, complete with a pool, stables and 200 acres of land, could fetch £100 million, experts believe.

He had at least nine Rolls-Royces, and - more infamously - an ill-advised statue of disgraced pop star Michael Jackson at Fulham, the football club which he also owned until 2013, three years after he sold Harrods.

During a previous hearing at Guildford Crown Court, a trial date was set for February 3 next year.

The trial is expected to last three weeks.