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Ms Hand announced in August her intention to sue McGregor and two other people for damages, alleging they engaged in malicious abuse of court processes.

It was, they suggested, an attempt to extort a ransom from the company by infecting its networks with malicious software.

The inquest heard the bite was "not malicious".

They would steal data or install malicious software and hold my employer to ransom and I would secretly get a cut.

This fictional scene led to real consequences over the weekend, with many Chinese social media users taking it to be a malicious mischaracterisation of China as belligerent.