characters, each with their own role and online name appeared head of comes and unlikely pr man was jake davis. the woody ensure topiary. this is the first time he has agreed to a television interview. >> i think topiary is a lot more competent than i am, suddenly, but i am speaking of myself truthfully to you in a real-life environment rather than behind the internet. >> at the time, jake was 17 and living on the remote shetland island. his stepfather had died a few years earlier, and his mother and brother had moved to england. jake was alone. rejected by the asset web. >> you cannot touch the internet, you cannot feel it, you can smell it or taste or a sense it. it is the world kind of the board of and the. that was my world. it was my cynical world, and i became a very cynical person. .> targets were an eclectic mix members of the group have been indicted in the u.s. for allegedly stealing and publishing a database containing details of 70,000 potential contestants of the "x factor." in the u.k., some have pleaded guilty to having the website of the "sun" newspaper and replacing its front