Thanks to Chester, you now know who I am. Dr Anne Graham at Bradford University. Hi.

Whatever I have or haven’t said here, I promise I’ve never lied. What’s odd is that – the second it got out who I was – we’ve had nearly 12x the traffic on the site. I’ve even done a few interviews. I thought this would be the end of me and my career… but Chester always seems to know what causes what effect in society. It’s his job.

Or so he told me when he rang me to tell me he’d just outed me online.

The question I’ve been asked most is what started all this. So I might as well tell you. Again, I promise I’m not lying.

One of my students was attacked.

‘Claire’ was heading back through the car park after a night out in town. As she got into her car, Claire was struck from behind, on the back of her neck and all down her back. Deep scratches.

I was on my way back to my car with my Friday night fish & chips. That car park is scary enough. I very nearly kept walking past when I heard strange noises from a corner where the light wasn’t working.

Until I distinctly heard someone gasp for ‘help’.

Looking back, I could just make out a dark silhouette, pinning a girl to the floor. I tried my best to help, kicking and punching and throwing my bag and my chips at the attacker. Nothing I could do to shift him, the strength was uncanny.

Then he went limp for a moment, as if drunk himself before suddenly bolting past me.

I didn’t know what to say when help arrived. She’d been attacked. That much was obvious. She had clearly put up a fight as she was covered in bruises but she’d lost a lot of blood.

The Police tried to identify her attacker on the DNA database from skin they took from under Claire’s fingernails. They didn’t find anything.

I took a sample of that skin for my own tests too. You’ve already seen what happened to it when I left it in sunlight.