Academic reveals how she escaped from a medieval tower’s bathroom
- Dr Krisztina Ilko was trapped within the rest room of her Queens’ College room
- She believes the latch of the door had been damaged by a plumber
A Cambridge tutorial says she feared for her life after being trapped within the rest room of a medieval tower for seven hours earlier than she managed to flee.
Dr Krisztina Ilko, used an eyeliner and a cotton bud to choose the locks of the heavy wood rest room door present in her Queens’ College room, as soon as occupied by sixteenth Century thinker Desiderius Erasmus.
The 33-year-old feared she could be trapped for days after being unable to launch the door’s lock, leaving her imprisoned within the historic tower’s windowless room on Thursday.
The rooms wouldn’t be cleaned till Monday, which means the junior researcher confronted greater than 100 hours inside the lavatory with none meals or her cell phone.
Dr Ilko revealed how she tried to bang the bathe head on the door to interrupt it open and desperately shouted for assist earlier than turning to the 2 on a regular basis objects to help in her escape.
Dr Krisztina Ilko, used an eyeliner and a cotton bud to choose the locks of the heavy wood rest room door of the Queens’ College rooms
The 33-year-old feared she could be trapped for days after turning into imprisoned within the historic tower’s windowless room on Thursday
Dr Ilko revealed how she tried to bang the bathe head on the door to interrupt it open and shouted for assist earlier than turning to the 2 on a regular basis objects to assist save her
She advised the Telegraph: ‘I used to be attempting to recollect how lengthy an individual can survive on simply water and hoping that I would not die there.
‘If folks got here searching for me would they examine the lavatory, or would I’ve to attend for Monday?
‘I attempted to bang the bathe head on the door, break it with brute drive, and shout for assist however nothing labored and nobody might hear me.’
Having bruised her shoulder from the failed makes an attempt to interrupt the door down, Dr Ilko poked the eyeliner pencil by way of the keyhole to push down the latch on the opposite facet after which used the cotton bud as a hook to free herself.
She revealed she is a fan of the fictional problem-solver MacGyver, which impressed her to make use of the 2 objects to assist her in her escape.
She added: ‘I used to be actually joyful and likewise fairly proud that I might use my wit to get out. I felt reduction, completely.
‘Sometimes once I hear sounds round right here I joke that it’s the ghost of Erasmus, then I believed I used to be going to hitch him and turn into a Cambridge legend.’
The college tutorial believes the latch of the door had been damaged by a plumber engaged on her bathe earlier that week.
The school has since eliminated the lock from the lavatory door.
Queens’ College has been approached for a remark.
