I have been in shock ever since I heard, earlier this morning, that Jason Arday was found dead at his home in Battersea on the afternoon of Friday 14 August. He was 41. The Metropolitan Police describe the death as unexpected but not suspicious, and a file is being prepared for the coroner.
On 5 August he resigned from Cambridge and Jesus College, hours after the university announced an investigation into his qualifications and career. His letter said he had “reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure.” On 11 August his memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, went on sale in America. On 14 August he was dead. His family, through his publisher, said “the campaign of misinformation was too much,” and that they had lost a father, a partner, a brother, an uncle and a son.
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