Philomena Cunk

How plausible is Hunting Alice Bell?

From our UK edition

Hunting Alice Bell began with an angry mob (is there any other kind?) outside a court building in 2012 brandishing misspelled placards and screaming at the eponymous Alice, who’d been convicted of providing a false alibi for her serial-killing former boyfriend. They were also, of course, having the time of their lives. We then cut to the present, when the fun of angry mobdom was flourishing online. After serving 18 months, Alice had been granted lifelong anonymity, but a masked man called True Crime Buster was now racking up the likes by ‘revealing’ that she was living in his hometown as Fran Da Silva – and urging his followers to ‘make her pay’.