UTS professor says she feared for family amid threats over cancelled course

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A Sydney university professor has told a court she was constantly looking over her shoulder after receiving a barrage of threatening letters over the scrapping of a course. 9News

It was met with protests and series of threatening letters targeting the professor, which police allege she authored and sent to herself.UTS Dean of Science Dianne Jolley was arrested in November and charged with orchestrating a fake campaign of harassment against herself.

The packages included stolen underwear and warnings "chop our future, we'll chop yours" ... "I watch you, I see what you do, you're not safe"."I was looking over my shoulder a lot. I felt like I was being watched. I started to be very careful of where I ate and what I ate."UTS Dean of Science Dianne Jolley is led away by NSW Police after her arrest on campus in November 2019.

The University of Technology spent almost $130,000 on security and chaperones so the academic was never alone. Jolley went on trial facing 20 charges, but today nine of them were dismissed because of a lack of evidence.Continue reading

 

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