Fiona Harvey, a Scottish lawyer, wants everyone to know what she has been through since her identity became public following the success of the Netflix show.
Baby Reindeer's real-life persona Martha, threatens to take legal action over the Netflix series where she is portrayed as a rampant stalker.
Harvey said: "I've not been to prison. I don't know where the four -and-a-half years and nine months comes in. None of this happened. It's a load of rubbish." "It's a load of rubbish. I don't have any money but I'm a perfectly capable lawyer so I will represent myself." According to Rory Lynch, a solicitor specialising in defamation and privacy at Gateley Legal, Harvey may have a plausible case for defamation due to people discovering her identity through a technique known as "jigsaw identification".
Lynch commented: "The only thing I can presume is that when Clerkenwell, films, the BBC and Netflix looked at it with their legal team they thought that they could rely on the fact that it is a drama. It's not supposed to be a factual documentary."But I do think that Richard Gadd could have been a bit more careful in changing a lot of the scenes to be more fictitious, but also covering up the identity of the people it was based on.
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