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He was investingated for plagiarism by Liverpool University, where the degree in question was from, and they found his work flawed in attributions and references, but not full on plagiarism.
The current media storm came from a self a owed race realist who says "in a meritocracy there'd be no black people at university" stirring it up repeating the claims he was found innocent of until he quit his job and killed himself.
Not to say he's blameless, the errors and failings in attribution and referencing are not the be all and end all, but a lot of the other claims about things he made up - raising money for charity, running the marathons - this article fact checks and comes down on more likely true, or closer to true than not.
He was also investigated at Cambridge, but they concluded it was racially motivated so didn’t complete the process, despite concerns of his colleagues and students.
Times Higher Education was preparing a major investigative story into his fabrication of medical study subjects and plagiarism of his students (allegedly with 68-pages worth of copied material including typos intact), but Arday hit them with a SLAPP action via the high-end law firm Carter-Ruck last autumn and they spiked the story.
There are currently three investigations ongoing, at Jesus College, Cambridge University and Queens University Belfast, and calls for an investigation into the first investigation at Cambridge.
In short, it’s a whole big mess, and it may take months or years to straighten out.
It is a total cluster fuck.
And siccing Carter-Fuck on TES isn't a good look.
That it became a mainstream media circus focused on sensationalism made it all harder to dig to the truth.
Hopefully people (or at least the left and left adjacent folk) can approach it as a non-partisan issue.