Police probe Hawking 'assaults'
( 2004-01-20 09:28) (Agencies)
British police are investigating a series of alleged mysterious assaults on
disabled top British scientist Stephen Hawking, the Daily Mirror reported on
Monday.
Hawking achieved
international prominence in 1988 with "A Brief History of Time" which
examined the origin of the universe.
[AP/file] | The paper said detectives wanted to
question Hawking, a Cambridge University professor and author of the best
selling "A Brief History of Time," about a number of minor injuries he had
recently suffered.
"The family are worried sick. They've been suspicious for some time that
someone has been harming Stephen," an unnamed source told the paper.
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire police said he could neither confirm or deny
the Mirror story.
The world famous physicist is confined to a wheelchair after contracting
motor neurone disease, a muscle-wasting condition, while at university. He can
only speak through a computerized voice synthesizer.
Hawking, 62, achieved international prominence in 1988 with "A Brief History
of Time" which examined the origin of the universe.
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