Daniel User ID: 72504923 Australia 07/03/2016 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | American Woman Guilty of Threatening to Kill Stephen Hawking at Conference A US woman has been given a suspended four-month jail sentence in Spain for threatening to kill British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. The 37-year-old has also been banned from approaching to within 500m of the scientist or communicating with him on social media for eight months. The woman was arrested in a hotel in Tenerife, close to where Prof Hawking was attending a conference. She had stalked him on social media before following him to the island. After being detained, she told police that she was in love with the scientist and would never have hurt him. [ link to www.bbc.com] |