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John Raman is a disbarred British barrister, music promoter, rapper, writer, Facebook influencer and literary novelist who achieved notoriety across the Republic of Ireland in March 2018 due to a hostile Facebook campaign. This focused on a UK criminal conviction in 2011 in regard an unreasonable belief about a teenager's age in 2006. It involved a 15 year old male teenager. Some of the posts drawing attention to his status as someone who had been disbarred as a result of a serious criminal conviction reached over 2500 shares on Facebook. They resulted in a concerted hate campaign against him in his local area in Sligo in the West Coast of Ireland and across the island of Ireland involving, in his view, and on the strength of no proceedings resulting from the various allegations, in the main, exaggerations, lies and fake news associated with the past offence.

In September 2019 in Ireland there was an article in a national Irish newspaper, The Independent, about an incident involving his Dobermann Dogs, and in December 2019 there was a further report in The Sligo Champion about two altercations arising in part as a result of the 2018 social media hate campaign, as well as a further update about the incident involving his dogs.

John Raman was born in Margate in the United Kingdom in 1968. His mother, a nurse, was forced to bring up her son alone for the first number of years of his life and as a result of this he spent from 4 months of age to 8 years of age in a Baptist children's residential care home in Birchington Kent. Its name was Spurgeon's.

The debut novel he is currently reworking, Between the Wretched Chaos, is an autobiografictional work that focuses on his early years in care. It also charts some experiences in his adult and current life which he sees as arising from traumas from his childhood.

John Raman moved around England with his mother and his stepfather after he was taken out of the home at the age of 8. His upbringing was fraught with further chaos and disturbances. In 1983, when his stepfather had difficulty getting a permanent position in the UK as a consultant rheumatologist the family moved to Sligo in Ireland. His stepfather was successful in achieving his career goal there.

The 15 year old John Raman attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, as a boarder. The school is famous as having been the provider of education to two famous Irish writers, Oscar Wilde and Samuel Becket.