A King's College student, who threatened to chop off her lecturer's penis and shove it up his behind after she believed he'd mocked her sexual inexperience with a cartoon, has avoided a jail sentence.

Stephanie Christol, 30, was sent a cartoon called ‘The Virgin Snail’ as part of a reading list at the London college and blamed Dr Christopher Dillon.

He had not in fact sent the list, but Christol embarked on a campaign of harassment against him, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.

She also sent a series of emails and Facebook messages calling Dr Dillon’s partner ‘a dog’ and ‘ugly as f**k’.

Stephanie Christol, 30, was sent a reading list by Dr Christopher Dillon which featured a cartoon called The Virgin Snail

Christol also threatened to slice off his member and insert it up his bottom.

Judge Timothy Gascoyne sentenced Christol to a 12 month community order and banned her from stepping foot in Kings College.

‘I do not see why he should have to step out his office and see your face,’ he said

‘You do not contact him. You are an intelligent young lady, you have got a degree, you know what you are doing. If you contact him you go to prison.’

Dr Dillon who has written several books including ‘Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence’ and had been helping Christol with her dissertation on films of the First World War

‘One message threatened me with violence. Between April to 25 September there were dozens of emails,’ he said.

‘One of them threatened to cut off my penis and shove it up my bottom. They were threatening I was concerned they may spread over to my partner.

The defendant, from Islington in London, also sent a series of emails and offensive Facebook messages about Dr Dillon’s partner's appearance

‘Two of the messages said: “I am going to get you” and, “I am going to find a way to make you apologise.”

Christol sent her letters on pink and blue writing paper with the lecturer’s name on the envelope.

Ed Cohen, prosecuting, said: ‘Starting with the emails. They were extremely abusive in their nature- saying Doctor Dillon’s partner was ‘a dog’ and ‘ugly as f**k.’

‘This caused some real issues between him and his partner.’

The lecturer went to the police in September 2016 who issued the student with a harassment warning.

But the bombardment continued and Christol sent five letters, and a framed picture to the lecturer’s pigeon hole when he was in Munich on research leave.

The picture showed a woman with masking over her mouth with the scrawled caption: ‘Ask the children of the UK who are grown up if contact denial was in their best interest?’

Dr Dillon did not open the letters but had a friend check what they were about.

Many of the letters told of Christol’s feelings about her traumatic upbringing and a sense of alienation from her parents.

Christol attended King’s College London where she studied history and is believed to have met Dr Dillon in her final year when she was writing her dissertation

Christol told the court: ‘They sent me articles and one of them I reacted badly to. It was at the end of a stage of articles which had been sent.

‘I was first angry because I thought he was laughing at me for being sexually inexperienced. I was a paranoid about it and I was trying to deal with my paranoia.

‘The letters were an explanation of my traumatic parental background. I write a lot to my relatives.

‘I want to be a screen writer. I would like those letters which the prosecution has back, so I can send them to my relatives.

‘I wanted to use that letter for writing a book and I want that letter back.’

Christol pictured on the set of Grantchester with James Norton and Robson Green

Furious at the perceived slight she emailed Dr Dillon, who worked at the university’s Strand Campus, threatening to chop of his penis and stick it up his bottom

Christol, from Islington, north London, denied but was convicted of harassment without violence and was sentenced to a 12 month community order.

She was given a 10-year restraining order in relation to Dr Christopher Dillon and told she could not enter King’s College London.

She was also order to pay £100 in compensation to the doctor and £620 prosecution costs.