Cambridge academic trapped in medieval tower uses eyeliner pencil and cotton bud to escape

A Cambridge academic used an eyeliner pencil and a cotton bud to escape a medieval tower after getting trapped in its bathroom.Dr Krisztina Ilko, a junior research fellow and director of studies at Queens’ College, lives in the tower in rooms which were once the home of Desiderius Erasmus, the 16th-century Dutch theologian and philosopher.The…