• The Netflix documentary “Sweet Bobby” is about a woman who is deceived into a fake online relationship.
• Kirat Assi said she has not found out the true identity of her lover eight years after starting the relationship.
• Assi then sued the catfish fisherman and tried – unsuccessfully – to get the police to take action.

Warning: Spoilers for Netflix's “Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare” and the previous podcast “Sweet Bobby.”

Kirat Assi, the protagonist of “Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare,” still hopes the police will go after her catfisher after she reported him six years ago.

Officials in London told Business Insider that they would re-investigate her case after initially dropping it. (Sky News was first to report the development.)

The Netflix show tackles two current streaming topics: true crime and fraud, with additional advertising able to shed new light on the cases.

Here are some of the twists that weren't captured in the show.

An 8-year deception

In 2010, Assi, a radio presenter from London, began a friendship via Facebook with a man she believed to be Bobby Jandu, a wealthy heart doctor.

She later believed she met his family on Facebook after the relationship turned romantic and the couple became engaged without ever meeting.

Assi was deceived. In 2018, she discovered that Simran Bhogal, her second cousin, had created the elaborate fiction with a web of accounts about a particularly sophisticated example of catfishing.

By this point, Assi had found and confronted the real Jandu, who had no idea who she was.

Jandu and Assi reported Bhogal to the police in the UK. But catfishing is not a crime under British law and Bhogal has not been charged or prosecuted.

Assi sued Bhogal in a civil case in the English courts in 2020. The couple settled a year later and Assi received financial compensation and a letter of apology that could be presented to a limited number of people.

Here's what the documentary missed on Assi's journey for justice.

Bhogal's lawyers made their own allegations

In episode five of the 2021 podcast series “Sweet Bobby,” in which Assi's story was released ahead of its release on Netflix, host Alexi Mostrous said that Assi had hired two lawyers.

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Amrit Maan and Yair Cohen helped her take legal action against Bhogal in the months following her initial contacts with London's Metropolitan Police.

While Maan tried to help Assi get the police to investigate, Cohen represented Assi in the British civil courts.

Mostrous said Assi then sent a letter threatening legal action against Boghal, accusing her of harassment, misuse of Assi's private information and violations of data protection laws.

Bhogal's lawyer responded by accusing Assi of grooming Bhogal because the online relationship began when Bhogal was a child and Assi was 32, Mostrous reported. The lawyers also claimed that Assi always knew that Bhogal was pretending to be Bobby and threatened to go public with the claim if the lawsuit was not dropped.

Assi said on the podcast: “It’s outrageous. I just thought that was so low and so disgusting of you. You’ve already confessed.”

Assi didn't give in.

In episode six of the podcast, Mostrous said Bhogal offered a payout and a semi-private letter of apology to settle the case in spring 2021. Mostrous said Assi wanted a public apology but accepted the settlement after speaking with her lawyers.

Assi has asked the police to solve the crime

In the Netflix documentary, Assi said police in London did not take her claim seriously and assumed that Jandu and his wife were the real victims of the catfishing case.

The Metropolitan Police dropped the case in 2019 due to a lack of evidence.

But on Friday, a spokesperson told Business Insider that it was re-investigating and “actively working with” Assi.

Assi then complained about the handling of her case to the British Independent Office for Police Conduct.

The IOPC told BI it had faulted the initial response and called on the Met to review its investigation process.

It was not clear exactly when or why the Met reopened her case.