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Joe Court's full timeline of developments in the vote tampering scandal

Toby James Kiryl Anatoly Henley Smith matriculates at Trinity College.

January 30th, 2016

Smith enters RAG Jailbreak alone. To widespread amazement Smith wins after arriving within an hour of the start time in Yakutsk, Siberia. Does not return to Cambridge for two weeks.

April 16th, 2016

Smith seen in conversation with three men wearing dark trench coats, big hats and earpieces. Smith has since maintained that these were Porters.

May 5th, 2016

Smith rumoured to be behind the appearance of unprintable curses found spray-painted onto the Great Court grass in shaky Cyrillic.

December 4th, 2016

Smith checks himself in at Addenbrooke’s, claiming to have walked all the way from Trinity. Smith is found to have had a blood vodka concentration that ‘no mortal should be able to withstand’.

January 24th, 2017

Smith announces plans to runs for POTTCSU.

January 28th, 2017

Smith’s two rival candidates revealed in leaked emails to have spent campaign expenses on queue jumps for Friday Life.

February 3rd, 2017

Smith elected President.

May 12th, 2017

Trinity students raise doubts as to the existence of ‘Ron’, Smith’s chosen Vice President, claiming that no-one has ever actually seen him. Smith insists that this is just because Ron is a mathmo.

November 29th, 2017

Smith fires half of the TCSU committee on grounds of ‘creative differences’, including Ents Officer Molly O’Brien.

January 2018

O’Brien comes forth with substantial evidence for Russian tampering in the 2017 election. No-one is really surprised. O’Brien says that she may as well run for POTTCSU, while she’s on a roll.

February 3rd, 2018

O’Brien elected President.

February 6th, 2018

O’Brien makes classes in Beginner’s Russian compulsory for all members of the College.

Are you a Mathmo?