“I’m next to you and can kill you” Terrified Man Couldn’t Move!
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Stephen Hawking addressed a crowd of fans at the Starmus Festival. The renowned physicist, who is confined to a wheelchair, was issued death threats by a 37 year-old woman on Twitter. She was at a nearby four-star hotel. The American woman was arrested and Hawking went on with his presentation at the conference after she was carted away. It must have been terrifying for him as he is virtually helpless. The woman refused a mental evaluation and was brought before a court for her threats.
From the Daily Mail:
An American woman has receive a suspended jail sentences after she threatened to kill physicist Stephen Hawking.
The woman, known only as Jenny Theresa C, pleaded guilty to making ‘serious threats’ against the physicist.
The court tried the woman after she refused to be seen by an expert who wanted to evaluate her state of mind.
This happened in Spain. She was released from custody after she agreed to a restraining order which prevents her from going within 500 meters of Hawking or trying to communicate with him for the next eight months. Under Spanish law, she could have been jailed for up to two years. A court source confirmed: ‘The American citizen arrested for threatening Stephen Hawking has been released because the four month prison sentence she received was suspended as she didn’t have a criminal record in Spain.’ Police said: ‘She had been pursuing Mr. Hawking throughout the world and in the last few days had sent him grave threats through social media and to his personal email. In the various emails he received she outlined plans to end his life during the scientific conference being held in Tenerife. Because of the information contained in the emails, it appeared the person sending them could have been inside the conference venue.’ Local reports said the 74 year-old Oxford-born professor was also due to give evidence to a judge in a behind-closed-doors hearing at the court in the southern resort of Arona. Detectives are understood to have arrested the suspect after being tipped off by one of Hawking’s three children. His family raised the alarm after he received messages which said: ‘I’m going to kill you’ and ‘I’m next to you and can kill you’. The death threats were sent to one of Professor Hawking’s emails and his Twitter account. The unnamed suspect, who was born in the States, but lives in Norway, was arrested on Wednesday.
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