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Prof in knot over knickers shocker
Tears fail to win jury
CARLA HILDEBRANDT
A FORMER professor at the University of Technology Sydney has been found guilty of faking a series of threats delivered to her home and office including one in which she sent herself her own underwear.It took a jury of six men and five women three days to find the former dean of sciences, Dianne Jolley, 51, guilty of sending herself a barrage of fake abusive letters, which caused her employers to fear for her safety, between July 2019 and November 2019.
She was also found guilty of dishonestly causing the university to pay $127,000 in security to protect her.
The jury found that Jolley sent herself 10 “creepy” letters, including a picture of her face with a red cross through it and letters containing her underwear, with a note saying: “I know what you wear.”
The jury foreman told the NSW District Court Thursday they agreed Jolley was guilty of all charges against her. She will be sentenced by Judge Ian Bourke SC in August.
Jolley cried while giving evidence to the court, describing the letters as “stalkerish”.
“It escalated when they came to my home. That’s when I really started to crack.
“I became paranoid and I was always looking over my shoulder,” Jolley told the court through tears.
The jury found Jolley wrote a letter to herself found at the university on July 31, 2019, which read: “Chop our future, we chop yours”.
She changed her story three times, telling the security guard the letter was planted in her duffel bag, telling a police officer it was on her table among paperwork and telling the jury she found it during a meeting. The jury accepted she sent herself a letter with a picture of her face with a red cross through it, inside a card which read: “You are so ignorant, I made you sick on July 4 and again on 23 July. You can prevent it.”
Jolley had told the jury she felt sick those two days and nearly fainted, with the Crown accusing Jolley she pretended to be poisoned.
The police officer who investigated the letter was “brushed off” by Jolley who said she had to attend a meeting when he tried to interview her, the court heard. The jury found she sent herself a letter which read: “You are f...ed racist bitch.
The court was told she sent a pair of her red underwear — she pretended were stolen during the home invasion — to the school with a card that read: “Sorry for your loss”.
The only charge Jolley admitted to was writing herself a card which read: “We have removed a dean before and we can do it again. You don’t belong here. You are not wanted here. Either you leave or we will do it.”
Jolley’s barrister Leah Rowan argued her client was no “drama queen”.