Show caption The dean of science at the University of Technology Sydney was arrested in November for allegedly sending fake threats to herself after the university planned to cancel a Chinese medicine course. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images Australian universities Sydney professor charged again with sending herself fake harassing letters UTS professor Dianne Jolley arrested on new charges after she allegedly sent an additional nine letters since her arrest Australian Associated Press Wed 8 Jan 2020 23.02 EST Share on Facebook

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Fresh charges have been laid against a Sydney professor whose alleged campaign of fake harassment sparked a lengthy police investigation and cost her employer more than $150,000 in security measures, according to court documents.

Prof Dianne Jolley, the dean of science at the University of Technology Sydney, was arrested in November for allegedly sending fake threats to herself after the university planned to cancel a Chinese medicine course.

Jolley allegedly told police she had been receiving threatening letters, while police alleged that she was sending them to herself.

New South Wales police on Wednesday hit Jolley with new charges after she allegedly sent an additional nine letters since her arrest.

Police said two of those letters were received by UTS on 27 November, the same day Jolley appeared at Downing Centre local court.

Jolley, 49, was in November charged with causing financial disadvantage by deception, giving false information about a person or property in danger and making a false representation resulting in a police investigation.

She pleaded not guilty at the time.

The new charges are for giving false information about a person or property in danger and for breach of bail.

Court documents show UTS spent $157,000 on Jolley’s security between late July and mid-November.

The university has said it would help police with investigations.

“UTS is aware that charges have been laid against Professor Dianne Jolley,” it said in a statement in November.

Jolley – who specialises in environmental chemistry and toxicology – joined UTS in late 2018.

She was arrested in Woolooware on Wednesday.