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Jason Arday’s family ‘still coming to terms’ with his death as vigil held
The vigil's speakers included Labour MP Diane Abbott, who said Arday had been subject to a "vicious and bitter media campaign" which she attributed to "people who didn't believe a black man should be a Cambridge professor".
Labour MP Diane Abbott criticised what she said was a "bitter media campaign" Lord Simon Woolley, principal of Homerton College at the University of Cambridge, told the vigil that when he met with Arday last week, the academic told him he felt that critics were "hounding me to death".
Arday, who became Cambridge University's youngest black professor when appointed in 2023, had faced weeks of media coverage over plagiarism allegations and questions about his achievements.
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