Edward Gay16:05, Jul 14 2021
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The threat resulted in a number of graduation ceremonies being cancelled in Dunedin.
A 22-year-old woman has admitted threatening an attack against the University of Otago which promised to surpass the March 15 terror attack.
The threat resulted in graduation ceremonies at the university being postponed, affecting thousands of students.
The woman, who has name suppression, appeared at Auckland District Court on Tuesday where she admitted threatening to carry out a firearms and explosives attack against students in Dunedin on December 7 and 8.
The charging document alleges she threatened a violent act of a “magnitude surpassing the March 15 Christchurch mosque massacres”.