In the dawning days of social media it was one of the first clips of its kind to go globally viral - and has since been viewed many millions of times.
A very ordinary woman is seen walking down a very ordinary street when she comes upon a cat. The cat, apparently friendly and seeking attention, jumps up from the pavement to a garden wall to get closer.
The woman strokes the cat a couple of times while glancing around then suddenly grabs it by the scruff of the neck and then, with surprising dexterity, flips open the lid of an adjacent wheelie bin, throws the cat inside, shuts the bin, and continues walking as if nothing has happened.
But something had happened: that woman, Mary Bale, a then 45-year-old single bank worker, had changed her own life forever.
Because the Daily Mail has learned that Ms Bale has never recovered from the international opprobrium her inexplicable action provoked - and which was so widely discussed that she is still known around the world as 'Cat Bin Lady'.
