Jason Arday, the youngest ever Black professor at Cambridge, was found unresponsive at an address in London. Arday had recently resigned in the midst of a plagiarism row.

The high-flying academic at the centre of a Cambridge University plagiarism row has been found dead.

Arday made headlines when the university appointed him as its youngest black professor in 2023 but he since faced snowballing claims he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.…

Police say 41-year-old was found unresponsive at address in south London and pronounced dead at the scene