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Read Letter: Netflix Challenged By UK Lawmaker To Evidence Stalking Conviction Against ‘Baby Reindeer’s Real-Life Martha
UK lawmaker John Nicolson has challenged Netflix to provide evidence for the claim that 'Baby Reindeer's real-life Martha has a stalking conviction.
John Nicolson, a Scottish National Party MP who sits on UK Parliament’s influential Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said Netflix had a duty to back up claims made in Richard Gadd’s “true story” hit series after Martha was identified as Fiona Harvey. In a letter seen by Deadline, Nicolson asked Benjamin King, Netflix’s senior UK director of public policy, to provide evidence of Harvey’s criminal record after he told the committee that Baby Reindeer was a “true story of the horrific abuse” suffered by Gadd “at the hands of a convicted stalker.” Chris Daw KC, a barrister working with Harvey to build a lawsuit, told Deadline: “Portraying someone as a convicted criminal who has done time in prison, when that is not true, is a pretty clearcut case of defamation, as it is bound to cause serious harm to that person’s reputation.”
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