Chinese University teacher threatened to 'chop off' ex-colleague's breasts

A former teaching assistant at Chinese University's law school sent more than 50 "threatening and alarming" phone messages in six months to her ex-colleague over allegedly unsatisfactory working arrangements, a court heard yesterday.

In one of the messages, Helen Yu threatened to "chop off" her former co-worker Associate Professor Anne Scully-Hill's breasts to feed her starving dog - which would find them "very delicious", the Sha Tin Court heard.

Yu, who is a lawyer, was found guilty of one count of criminal intimidation by Magistrate Merinda Chow Yin-chu, who said Scully-Hill found the messages "threatening and alarming".

"She believed something would have happened to her because there were abusive words," Chow said. "The conduct was persistent and repetitive."

The 35-year-old Yu had earlier denied the accusation that she sent abusive messages with intent to alarm Scully-Hill from August 2012 to January this year.

The court heard yesterday that the messages were sparked by Yu's dissatisfaction with Scully-Hill's allocation of teaching hours last September.

Earlier, it heard that three sets of "intimidating" messages included "I haven't fed my dogs for three days, chop your booties"; and "I will starve my dog for you".