A STUDENT whistleblower who lifted the lid on the sickening jokes made by law students about rape and cancer has said he has no regrets about exposing them.

Undergraduate law students at the University of Exeter were exposed after making vile comments on a WhatsApp group chat.

Arsalan Motavali, 21, said: "It went from crude humour to racial slurs. Awful things were said about rape. Every group was targeted."

"[The messages] started to get progressively worse after certain people were added."

Five months on and several of them have been expelled after Arsalan's post of their "vile" screen shots went viral.

But speaking to Newsbeat, the 21-year-old said he had no regrets about his decision to go public.

When the tone of the messages turned nasty – and Arsalan decided to post some of them to Facebook which were then shared thousands of times.

He then forwarded them on to a number of non-university friends who told him to complain to Exeter University but he says he just didn't get round to it immediately.

The next step was when Arsalan showed the messages to some of his university friends. He said they were horrified by what they saw.

Along with racist, sexist and bigoted views, one of the messages targeted someone who had been stabbed at university.

As well as being racist, sexist and bigoted, one of the messages targeted someone who'd been stabbed at university.

Among them are messages about a gang raping female students until they are "lifeless" — while one calls black people "useless tree ornaments".

Many are too depraved to publish.

Most read in news

After the investigation was finished an email was sent to students and staff by university officials.

It explained expulsions, suspensions and other sanctions had been used. But there was no comment on how many people had been expelled.

Arsalan believes the investigation was handled well.

Source: Read Full Article