A Goldsmiths university diversity officer who allegedly tweeted using the hashtag #killallwhitemen has had criminal charges against her dropped.

Bahar Mustafa was handed a court summons last month over the allegedly racist comment.

But today the Metropolitan Police confirmed the 28-year-old from Edmonton was no longer expected at Bromley Magistrates Court on Thursday because her case had been discontinued.

Ms Mustafa sparked a race row earlier this year by asking white people not to attend an event on diversifying the curriculum while she was the welfare and diversity officer at Goldsmiths University in south London. The students' union is an independent body whose representatives are elected by members. Ms Mustafa is neither an employee of the university nor a student.

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.”

Amid the ensuing row, she was accused of using the hashtag #killallwhitemen in public posts on Twitter.

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.”

In October she was handed a court summons to answer two charges.

The first accused her of sending a letter, communication or article conveying a threatening message between November 10, 2014, and May 31, 2015.

The second said she was charged with sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message, matter between November 10, 2014 and May 31, 2015.

A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed on Tuesday that the case had been discontinued on October 26.