Ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism scandal found dead

Black academic Jason Arday, who resigned from the University of Cambridge last week following a high-profile plagiarism scandal that raised claims of racism, was found dead on Friday, the prestigious British institution confirmed. Arday, 41, was found unresponsive Friday afternoon at an address in south London, according to the capital’s Metropolitan Police Service, which did not confirm the identity of the deceased person at the time of discovery. “We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news,” Cambridge University’s top administrator, Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice, said in a brief statement. Arday’s family criticised what they called a “campaign of harassment” that followed…