Would you send this woman a link to the article about her new boyfriend?

Bad advice as he and his scary friends might see and start stalking her and ruining her life in revenge. Better to at least do in a private message

You can ask your local police station advice for a Claire's law on her request and they can contact her if needed.

You could also send it to a mutual friend who knows her better and say you just saw this randomly and it looks like friends man - does she think she knows?

She's not a close friend and may ignore any anonymous message.

Just write under one of the gushing posts -

'Is that the same Fred Bloggs as this?' and then post a link to his reported crimes.

Oh yeah of course, totally different.

Agree with @Kesio do it from a unlinked email address. If you are absolutely sure its him obviously, people can have the same name. I know 2 people, similar age, same name, from the same town (one is a criminal, one is not, quite awkward for the one who is not)

This. But after you sent it, let it go.

If he had been in all the papers with a criminal conviction though....
Not quite the same scenario.

Yes, I would. If she already knows, no harm done. If she doesn't, she needs to.

If I were in her shoes, I would want to know. People saying she already knows are making a lot of assumptions. If you tell her (in whatever way you decide to), then if she decides to turn a blind eye to his nature, as many women choose to, then at least you will know you've done all you can.

Someone did something similar to me years ago, she told me my partner had a child, and even when I said no he dosnt she insisted he did, and I said ok how do you know that and she said oh I looked him up on Facebook and saw pictures of him holding a new born, I was like that's his neice,

and now I think that girls a right odd ball, to 1 look up my partner when like you we hadn't seen each other for years since school, and 2 to think that 2 seconds of looking on Facebook means she knows more about him than I do 😂

not sure how holding a newborn means you're automatically the dad

I'm always of the opinion 'do unto others'. I would want to know if I was dating anyone with a criminal history.

The worst that can happen is she thinks you're a meddling witch and hates you, or tells him. Actually I'd also do it via another email account, in case she does that. He's the one you're worried about really, not her.

Obviously tell her.

And of course she's not going to click a link in a random email or from an obviously new Facebook or messenger user she doesn't know.

This is exactly what I'd do as well. Send her the link. She may know but at least you can be sure she will now

I'd get a new disposable email address and send it to her anonymously.

"Nothing can go wrong" except her friend also being badly beaten.

I would, anonymously, then what she does about it is up to her, but imagine if she doesn't know and he turns violent on her.

This.

Aside from this giving Stalker vibes lol...

A woman I went to school with around 20 odd years ago ...... I haven’t seen her since leaving school..... So I googled his name...

If something happened to her - you'd feel guilty for not saying something. You cant assume she has googled him - she may not be as stalker as you are ;-)

I would but she probably knows and won't thank you.

I didn't something similar to my friend. I found out her new boyfriend had spent 6 years in prison for almost killing his girlfriend.
Turns out he'd already told her and put his own spin on it..... which she believed despite his story being completely improbable.

She doesn't speak to me now.

Yes I would. We don’t need to all turn blind eye. Imagine he did something awful to her! Like you said she might already know, but I think I’d anonymously send her a link.

She will know there might be an absolute nonsense of an explanation from him or she might think he's changed or she can fix him but I am betting she knows, although what have you got to lose telling her you are just old school friends and would it matter if she doesn't speak to you again?

Many years ago my ils hired a PI to get some dirt on my new friend .. They did and didn't tell me. If they had my life would have been very different imo.
Their motive was to prove I was cheating. I wasn't.. We weren't an item until much later on. If I had know the info they had I would never have gotten involved. I found out after a decade of hell with him. It wasn't dv though. If your motives are good op then tell her..

Id send it 👌🏽 do it 100% anonymously though, u dont want this dangerous man angry with you.

Do you not think she would do her own digging about her new boyfriend especially if his Facebook name is shortened?

If you found this out after a short amount of investigation then she, or someone closer to her than you, has probably already done the same. So she probably already knows.

I would assume this to be the case anyway, seeing as checking out new partners online seems to be so prevalent these days. I would leave it alone if I were you.