A woman who threatened to chop off her lecturer's penis after she believed he mocked her sexual inexperience has avoided jail.
Thirty-year-old Stephanie Christol, a student at King's College, was sent a cartoon called 'The Virgin Snail' on her reading list and erroneously believed it had been sent by Dr Christopher Dillon, who was helping her with her dissertation on films of the First World War.
Christol began harassing the lecturer via emails and Facebook, calling his partner a 'dog' and saying she was 'ugly as fuck' as well as threatening to cut off his penis and shove it up his behind, the Daily Mail reports.
She also sent a number of letters and a framed picture to the lecturer.
Judge Timothy Gascoyne gave Christol a 12-month community order and banned her from going into King's College.
He said: "I do not see why he should have to step out his office and see your face.
"You do not contact him. You are an intelligent young lady, you have got a degree, you know what you are doing. If you contact him you go to prison."
Speaking in court Dr Dillion said: "One message threatened me with violence. Between April to 25 September there were dozens of emails.
"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'."
Dr Dillion first reported the student to police in 2016 and she was issued with a harassment warning, however, it didn't stop her and she continued to bombard the lecturer with emails and letters.
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.
"The letters were an explanation of my traumatic parental background. I write a lot to my relatives.
"I want to be a screen writer. I would like those letters which the prosecution has back, so I can send them to my relatives.
"I wanted to use that letter for writing a book and I want that letter back."
She denied harassment but was found guilty and as well as the 12-month community order, she was also given a 10-year restraining order against the doctor. She has to pay £100 compensation and £620 prosecution costs.
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