Can I tell you a secret? Episode one: the beginning

Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Guardian journalist Sirin Kale takes us to a small town in the north of England to uncover how one man began a decade of cyberstalking

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:06.3	Just before we begin, this is a podcast series about stalking and some people might find parts of it difficult to listen to.
0:15.3	There's also a little bit of swearing.
0:21.5	Ohio. Hello. The council? No, so I'm a... bit of swearing. Oh, hi.
0:22.2	Hello.
0:22.8	The council?
0:23.7	No, so I'm a journalist for the Guardian newspaper.
0:27.4	Excuse me.
0:28.9	I'll go on.
0:29.6	I'm a journalist for the Guardian newspaper.
0:32.6	My name is Shuren.
0:33.7	And I'm working on a podcast about Matthew Hardy.
0:36.7	Yes.
0:37.4	You said over there, right?
0:38.3	Yes.
0:39.3	I'm on a quiet road looking at a small block of flats.
0:45.3	We've had people around with guns, knives looking for him.
0:51.3	It was like a living nightmare.
0:57.5	I'm here because of a name on a court filing.
1:03.3	Yeah, Mafia Hardy was very, very nasty.
1:06.0	He made himself out to be someone he wasn't.
1:09.6	And he taunted ladies for 10 years because of a very clever person.
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