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Can I Tell You A Secret? on Netflix review: this cyberstalking documentary feels rushed

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Can I Tell You A Secret is a documentary about the stuff nightmares are made of. Over the course of a decade, a cyber-stalker named Matthew Hardy haunted the inboxes of women around the UK, harassing them via Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Dubbed ‘Britain’s worst cyber-stalker’, he escaped police notice for years, before finally being jailed in 2022.

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