EXCLUSIVE: Carlette Norwood was sat next to her colleague in a car when she discovered he was a convicted sex offender.
Norwood runs an award-winning independent theater in Birmingham, UK, and had hired the man she then knew as Ryan Jay as a technical director one year prior, in 2024.
Everything had checked out. Jay had a solid CV and Norwood had found him on the Mandy jobs platform, a database she had used previously for hiring. She ran a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which flags criminal records, on the name ‘Ryan Jay’ and it came back clean. He worked hard, was talented and the pair struck what Norwood describes as a very close friendship, bonding over their love of theater and shared grief, having both lost spouses.
“There was never anything romantic between us but we spent a lot of time together,” she explains.
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