Title may sound a little simple but the issue is pretty complicated and I would appreciate some input.

I am a uni student living on campus and about four months ago, after a night out, a few friends and I went back to their accomodation. We were hanging out in their kitchen for a bit and when they said they were going to sleep I excused myself and headed out. On the the way out of the kitchen I saw a bottle of teriyake sauce and I just decided to take it with me for whatever reason.

It sat in my kitchen for a couple days, I didn't use it and didn't really know why I took it but because its only worth a couple pounds I wasn't really bothered about it. Then my mates messaged me telling me that the person whos it was wanted it back and so I went back and gave it to them.

Now four months later I recieve a letter telling me that I bullied this person by taking their sauce and they reported me and I must attend a hearing with the disciplinary committee. Well that was yesterday and whilst I thought I would get a slap on the wrist boy was I wrong....

They called me a thief,  said how would I like it if someone did that to me and even equated it to murder somehow to which I laughed and the police officer ripped into me for not taking the issue seriously. At the end they told me that I would recieve a university and a halls warning which I was blown away by. If I get one more of those it means I'll be kicked out of my accomodation and likely kicked out of uni.

So theres the story, and I was just wondering if ITA? I know I shouldn't have taken the sauce and being drunk isn't an excuse but I did return it and this sort of thing is always happening at uni, people use eachothers food and breaking stuff is a common occurrence. I really think this has been blown massivly out of proportion and don't think that a bottle of sauce should be threatening my place at uni. It means I can't really drink while I'm here because I might do something that I think isn't a big deal and get kicked out.

