A STUDENT union president who sparked outrage after vowing to deface a World War One mural previously sent a naked picture to more than 200 classmates, The Sun Online can reveal.

Emily Dawes, 21, president of the University of Southampton Student Union, was condemned after threatening to paint over the mural of fallen war heroes as it depicted “white men” this week.

9 Emily Dawes is the president of University of Southampton's Student Union Credit: Facebook

Fellow students have now come forward complaining about Dawes' other bizarre attention-seeking actions, revealing she sent her entire course year group a photo of herself naked from the waist-down with just an emoji to cover her vagina.

As soon as she became president of the union she changed two of the disabled toilets on the ground floor of the Union to gender neutral ones, they say.

Details of left-wing Dawes' privileged life have also emerged, showing she grew up in a £1million house, attended a £6,000-a-term private school, travelled the world with her daddy and now gets paid £20,000 a year as student union president.

Today one of the union's vice president tweeted Dawes is "on leave until further notice" and "will not be reachable for correspondence or for her day to day duties".

9 Dawes was the president of her university's Feminist Society before becoming the president of the Student Union Credit: Facebook

Several students have complained Dawes sent the naked photo to a group chat normally used for discussing coursework or making light-hearted jokes about their lectures.

One said: “Someone had just a got a new puppy so they posted a picture of their dog.

"Everyone started to share pictures of their dogs and cats. She said ‘Does anyone want to see my cat?’

“She posted a picture of her vagina covered by a flower emoji.

“It’s something that is just not appropriate in the group chat."

9 Dawes allegedly sent the photo of herself without being asked Credit: Facebook

In screenshots seen by The Sun Online, Dawes was quickly met with a chorus of backlash from her fellow classmates after she shared the naked photo of herself.

One added a meme saying “It’s time to stop”.

Dawes jibed backed: “Oh no we have someone who is very uncomfortable with the human body code red.”

Another said: “Just for clarification just because you’re okay with insinuating a 'p***y' pic doesn’t mean everyone else is ok with it.”

Dawes replied directly to the student: “Does the female genitalia make you so uncomfortable that you can’t even take a joke about it??????”

Dawes went further and threatened to take another classmate to the chief of harassment of the student union when she accused him of “slut shaming” after they shared a meme with the word “sluttery” in it.

Another classmate added: “It’s not the fact that it’s the female body, I don’t give a s*** that it is.

"If it was a guys d*** pic with something people would be like wtf.

“But the sole fact that it’s a group chat that is for physics and the group are not all friends or close is rather inappropriate is the point.”

A classmate told The Sun Online: “At first I was confused and I was shocked that someone would actually do something like that.

“I just thought she was someone who wanted to start a fight. She knew the reaction she was going to get.”

“Now with her comments from this week I want people to know this isn’t a one off thing. It is a pattern of behaviour.”

9 Dawes has been accused of also sending a nude picture of herself in a group chat Credit: Facebook

Before Dawes became president of the University of Southampton’s Student Union this year she was the president of university’s Feminist Society.

During her campaign she bragged about her “extra as heck” manifesto and pledged all the toilets on campus would become gender neutral.

Fellow students have said it felt unnecessary to change the toilets to gender neutral ones because transgender students were using their preferred one anyway.

They added: “This was never a big deal until she made it one.

“Most of her actions as union president seem to be to just about making a point instead of trying to make life better for the students at Southampton.”

9 Dawes was privately educated in £6K-a-term girls school in London Credit: Facebook

9 Dawes was also educated in the US Credit: Facebook

9 This is the tweet that a twitter storm of backlash Credit: Facebook

The fresh controversy that Dawes in embroiled started when she tweeted: “Mark my words - we're taking down the mural of white men in the uni Senate room, even if I have to paint over it myself.”

She was referencing the university's Rothenstein Mural, which depicts students who died during the Great War collecting degrees that they didn’t get to finish.

9 Dawes bragged that her manifesto to become was president was 'extra as heck' Credit: David Evans

Her tweet has since been deleted and she did issue an apology a day after she originally posted it and two hours after The Sun Online published its original story.

She said: “Firstly, and most importantly, I would like to apologise for the offence and upset I have caused with what I have said. I never meant the disrespect to anyone past, present and future.

"I had no intention of the tweet being taken literally, and upon reflection realised how inappropriate it was.

"My intention was to promote strong, female leader and not the eradication and disrespect of history.

9 One of tweets in response to her statement about defacing a WWI memorial Credit: Twitter

"I do not believe that to make progress in the future, we should look to erase the past.

"Once again, I would like to apologise for the offence and upset I have caused."

Dawes grew up in a £930,000 ($1.2million) six-bedroom house in an upscale neighbourhood in Virginia in the US.

Her parents also forked out £6,000-a-term for her to attend Northwood College for Girls School in North London.

Dawes has taken a year off of her studies to be the Students’ Union president with a bumper starting salary, a university spokesman told The Sun Online.

The astrophysics student has lived around the world as her father is a global director for US-based computer security company Symantec and his job has taken his family to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as well as Perth, Australia.

Southampton University Student Union yesterday apologised for its President's remarks and had urged her to explain her actions.

It said: "We apologise for the recent statement from our President regarding the Rothenstein Mural and any upset this may have caused.

"This is a personal view and not that of the Union. We do not believe the statement was said to cause upset or disrespect to anyone and does not follow our mission or values. We have reached out to our President to ask for a statement to be released."

What is the Rothenstein Mural? The Rothenstein Mural was painted in 1916 and depicts a graduation ceremony with students getting their degree. It represents the university students who went to fight in World War I and died before being able to collect their degrees. The idea came to Sir William Rothenstein when he saw the "sight of a number of youths, booted and spurred, with their gowns over their khaki, kneeling before the Chancellor to receive their degrees" in Oxford. The mural is in the Senate Room in the heart of Highfield Campus at the University of Southampton.

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The Sun Online contacted the Student Union and they have declined to comment on the latest revelations.

The Student Union speaking on behalf of Dawes also say she has declined to comment.

The University of Southampton declined to comment on today’s information.

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