Student’s threat to lecturer... I’LL CHOP OFF YOUR PENIS AND STICK IT UP YOUR BOTTOM
A STUDENT at one of Britain’s top universities threatened to chop off her lecturer’s PENIS after she was sent a cartoon called ‘The Virgin Snail’ in her reading list, a court heard.
Stephanie Christol, 30, believed Dr Christopher Dillon was trying to mock her with a cartoon because of her lack of sexual experience.
Christol met him in her final year at King’s College London while she was writing her dissertation on films on the First World War, the court heard.
In a batch of reading material sent to the history student, a cartoon appeared at the bottom of an article called ‘The Virgin Snail’.
Furious at the perceived slight, she emailed Dr Dillon, who worked at the university’s Strand Campus, threatening to chop off his penis and stick it up his arse.
She also sent a series of emails and Facebook messages calling Dr Dillon’s partner ‘ugly as f**k’.
The court heard from Dr Dillon, who has written several books including ‘Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence’ and had been helping Christol with her work.
“One message threatened me with violence. Between April to 25 September there were dozens of emails,” he said. ‘a dog’ and
“One of them threatened to cut off my penis and shove it up my bottom.
“They were threatening. I was concerned they may spread over to my partner.
‘Two of the messages said ‘I am going to get you’ and ‘ I am going to find a way to make you apologise’.
Ed Cohen, prosecuting at Hendon magistrates court, north London, said: “The emails were extremely abusive in their ABUSIVE EMAIL: Christol sent ‘ugly as f**k’ message nature, saying Doctor Dillon’s partner was ‘a dog’ and ‘ugly as f**k’.
“This caused some real issues between him and his partner.”
Christol told the court: “They sent me articles and one of them I reacted badly to. It was at the end of a stage of articles which had been sent.
“I was first angry because I thought he was laughing at me for being sexually inexperienced.
“I was paranoid about it and I was trying to deal with my paranoia.”
Christol of Islington, inner London, denied a charge of harassment without violence but was found guilty.
She gasped when magistrates announced their verdict.
Christol was granted conditional bail ahead of sentencing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
She was ordered to continue living at her current address and must not enter King’s College London Strand Campus, nor must she contact directly or indirectly Dr Dillon.