Man arrested for stealing sausage rolls killed himself after police labelled him a paedophile

[Emrys]

4. We're talking about a country where a paediatrician was victimized back in 2000 by a mob

who thought she was a paedophile:

Doctor driven out of home by vigilantes

Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional title with the word "paedophile", it emerged yesterday.

Dr Yvette Cloete, a specialist registrar in paediatric medicine at the Royal Gwent hospital in Newport, was forced to flee her house after vandals daubed it with graffiti in the middle of the night.

The word "paedo" was written across the front porch and door of the house she shared with her brother in the village of St Brides, south Wales.

Dr Cloete, 42, confirmed she had left the property after the "distressing" attack. "For the time being I have moved out of the area because when something like this happens you just cannot feel safe in your own home.

"We removed the graffiti within hours, but what happened was terrible and it has been extremely distressing."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society

How receptive do you think mobs like that will be to any explanations after such an allegation has been spread, whatever the truth or lack of it behind it?