This is the Guardian.

Hi, it's Mike.

Today we have a special episode.

It's about how one Facebook post from a young woman falsely claiming she was an abuse survivor,

sparked a nationwide campaign for justice.

But it also fueled vigilante violence, racist attacks, and ultimately ruined lives.

Our north of England editor, Helen Pied, reports from Barrow Inferness.

Today, how one woman's lies tore a town apart.

Can you see the crack?

Can you feel the crack here?

Yeah.

That's...

So someone stood there and threw a brick, but missed either window and hit the case in and cracked the case in.

Then they picked up another brick and smashed this window.

This is the voice of a man we're calling Hamza.

No, the day we never got the perpetrators.

One night in the summer of 2020, the Indian restaurant he ran in a port town in the north west of England was vandalised.

All of a sudden, this entire site got smashed as well.

Oh, so it wasn't just one round?

His phone was already ringing off the hook.

People threatened into coming to physical harm to us.

We had people from Liverpool ring up, threatening to kill us.

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