Possible Clues:

• Mat originally straightened, dragged through the mud
• Vilified
• Defamed
• Traduced mum showing furrowed brow, we hear?
• Spoke badly of head of Mafia dealing crookedly
• Said bad things about male in regular row
• Threw much mud at
• Abused in a queue perhaps on motorway
• Bad-mouthed
• Headmaster brought into cooperation with the abused