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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36687631 [bbc.com]

A US woman has been sentenced after she sent Stephen Hawking multiple threatening emails and stalked him near where he was attending a conference in Spain:

A US woman has been given a suspended four-month jail sentence in Spain for threatening to kill British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

The 37-year-old has also been banned from approaching to within 500m of the scientist or communicating with him on social media for eight months.

The woman was arrested in a hotel in Tenerife, close to where Prof Hawking was attending a conference.

She had stalked him on social media before following him to the island.

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