An American woman has receive a suspended jail sentences after she threatened to kill physicist Stephen Hawking.
美国一名女子在威胁称要杀死物理学家史蒂芬·霍金之后,被判入狱,缓期执行。
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.
该女子名为珍妮·特丽萨·C,承认自己因“严重”威胁霍金而获罪。法院对这名女子进行了审判,而她之前曾拒绝了一名专家想要对其进行精神状态评估的请求。
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. As part of her sentence she is prevented from going within 500 metres of Professor Hawking and communicating with him via any means during an eight-month period. She has agreed to the sentence and recognised that she committed a crime of serious threats.'
来自法院方面的消息证实:“这名美国公民因威胁史蒂芬·霍金而被捕,但是她又被释放了,因为她在西班牙没有犯罪记录,所以她四个月监禁的处罚将缓期执行。作为判决的一部分,在接下来的8个月时间里,这名女子不能接近霍金500米以内的范围,同时还不能以任何手段和霍金对话。她接受了这一判决,并且承认自己犯下了严重威胁罪。”
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.
警方表示称:“她一直在全世界各地追寻霍金的脚步,最近几天她还通过社交媒体向霍金的个人邮箱发送了非常严重的威胁信息。”
'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.'
“在他收到的众多邮件中,有一封是该名女子计划杀死他的详细计划,在邮件中该名女子曾计划要在特内里费举行科学会议期间杀死霍金。从这封邮件中所含有的信息来看,发送邮件的人可能已经潜入了会议场馆里。”
The 37-year-old woman was arrested in a hotel near where the world-famous physicist was due to speak.
最终,这名女子在一间宾馆里被捕,而这间宾馆的旁边就是霍金要发表演讲的地方。
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.
据当地媒体报道,这起案件将在西班牙阿罗纳南部举行闭门听证会,而74岁的剑桥教授霍金也会出席,向法官陈述证据。
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 detention took place the same day the scientist gave a keynote speech at the centre as part of the Starmus Festival.
在收到威胁信息后,霍金一家都提高了警惕。这些威胁信息这样说道:“我要杀死你”、“我就在你身边,我能杀死你”。就在这名女子被捕的同一天,作为“上帝粒子科学节”的一部分,霍金在该会议中心发表了一份主要讲话。