This is inevitably going to be a heavily context and detail-dependent affair. Since you don't seem to know to any specificity what the individual actually did, who the victim was, or how recent this was, you're going to struggle to convince others of the importance.
Thusly, I'm not sure anyone could give good advice in this situation, other than to talk to those previously affected and what their actual views on the perpetrator are - otherwise anything you do is going to be based on complete guesses. Sometimes that's all you have to go off, and in those cases, you can only instead ask people to err on the cautious side.