A former student’s union diversity officer is to face court over a tweet with the hashtag “kill all white men."

Bahar Mustafa sparked a race row by asking white people not to attend an event on diversifying the curriculum while she was Goldsmiths University’s welfare and diversity officer.

Scotland Yard today said she had been summonsed after police received a complaint of “racially motivated malicious communication”.

The Met said in a statement: “A woman interviewed under caution regarding a complaint of racially motivated malicious communication made on a social media network has been summonsed to court.

“Bahar Mustafa, 28, of Edmonton, Enfield has been summonsed to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 5 November to answer charges of sending a threatening letter or communication or sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message."

The orders relate to messages sent between 10 November 2014 and 31 May 2015.

Ms Mustafa triggered a backlash over a series of comments she posted on social media in May.

In a Facebook post promoting an event to diversify the curriculum, she allegedly wrote: “Invite loads of BME Women and non-binary people!! Also, if you’ve been invited and you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME just cos I invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only.”

She defended her position at the time by saying that minority women could not be racist.

In a statement read out to fellow students, she accused the media of embarking on a "witch hunt and shameful character assassination".

She said: "There have been charges laid against me that I am racist and sexist towards white men.

"I, an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist towards white men, because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender.

"Therefore, women of colour and minority genders cannot be racist or sexist, since we do not stand to benefit from such a system.”