The US 37 was arrested and tried in Spain
A US citizen was arrested and sentenced on Friday (1/7) to four months in prison for threatening death the British physicist Stephen Hawking, who is currently in Spain.
The woman was arrested yesterday when police knew she traveled to Tenefire in the Canary Islands, where Hawking, 74, participates in the Starmus festival.
The trial took place on Friday and the woman admitted to having threatened the physical. Why not have a criminal record, the judge allowed her to stay in open regime, but forbidden to approach for less than 500 meters Hawking.
It also can not communicate with the British scientist for eight months. According to Spanish police, the woman, 37, currently lives in Norway and suffers from mental instability. She pursued Hawking for years and several countries.
She sent messages "will kill you" and "I am at your side and I can kill you" to the e-mail body, which alarmed the Hawking family.
The Briton, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis adolescence (ALS), is paralyzed and communicates only by a computer. He had never been threatened before.
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