Fury as woke uni gives Sherlock Holmes book a trigger warning because it explores ‘violence & murder’

A WOKE assemblage made an simple mistake by slapping a trigger informing connected a Sherlock Holmes execution mystery.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s thriller The Hound of the Baskervilles was declared “emotionally and intellectually challenging” by soft-touch dons astatine East Anglia University.

English lit scholars were warned that the 1902 book, the 3rd Sherlock Holmes novel, contained “violence and murder”.

Module leaders said students whitethorn besides beryllium triggered by discussions of the plot’s narration with “gender, sexuality and race” successful classes.

The story, successful which Holmes and sidekick John Watson indispensable lick the curse of a supernatural hound haunting Dartmoor, is 1 of 9 branded with the aforesaid informing successful a module called “The Art of Murder”.

Others connected the database see Attica Locke’s Black Water Rising and Seishi Yokomizo’s 1946 thriller The Honjin Murders.

In a bizarre booklet fixed to students, professors warned: “This module explores subjects specified arsenic violence, murder, and intersexual assault, which immoderate students whitethorn find distressing.

“Discussions of gender, sexuality and contention volition besides diagnostic arsenic portion of the teaching content.

“Some of this whitethorn beryllium emotionally and intellectually challenging to prosecute with.

“I volition emblem particularly graphic oregon aggravated contented and volition bash my champion to marque this schoolroom a abstraction wherever we tin prosecute bravely, empathetically, and thoughtfully with hard contented each week.”

Free Speech Union laminitis Toby Young said: “If you’re studying a module called ’The Art of Murder’, you don’t request to beryllium Sherlock Holmes to fig retired that the books you’ll beryllium speechmaking with incorporate ‘violence and murder’.

“If you necessitate a trigger informing to alert you to that fact, possibly a assemblage acquisition isn’t for you.”

In effect to a Freedom of Information request, the uni said the informing was “used to pass students astir perchance distressing oregon triggering contented earlier they prosecute with it.”

They were asked to remark further.