Stephen Hawking is a brilliant scientist. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge in England. He looked at Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and found that space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang. Hawking wrote several books and earned many honorary degrees.
In the ’60s, doctors diagnosed him Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a form of Motor Neurone Disease, and doctors gave him two years to live. Hawking is wheelchair bound, and must use a computerized voice to communicate.
This week, a woman, an American, was arrested in Spain for plotting to kill Professor Hawking. She sent death threats to him, and she followed him to an astronomy festival in the Canary Islands.
Her children tipped off the authorities when they found over 100 tweets and emails that she sent to Hawking threatening to kill him. He was flanked by police officers during his lecture, and a woman was arrested nearby thought to be the suspect.
This woman is a U.S. citizen who lives in Norway. She sent many tweets with things such as:
“I am very close to you. I am going to kill you.”
The police arrested her at the same hotel that Hawking was staying at. She had an itinerary showing everywhere that Hawking was going to be while in Spain. She is being identified as Jenny Theresa C. She has some mental health issues. When she was caught, she said that she was in love with Hawking and would never hurt him.
The local court issued a statement saying:
“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.”
”The crime she was convicted of covers threats to carry out crimes against someone including murder, wounding, rape and torture.”
Here is a news video about the incident:
https://youtu.be/MyibW4eJNtw
Featured Image: Screenshot Of YouTube Video.
