00:00Well, we start with the most amazing story front page of the mail and other papers plagiarism professor resigns as
00:06Cambridge investigate the gentleman's name is Jason our day professor of sociology who became Cambridge's young youngest black professor in
00:142023 resigned last night under immense pressure because it it's suggested that he's basically made up his whole life story.
00:24I mean, there's no easy way of saying including plagiarizing his work. Can we just go through a bit of
00:31the details report? So I type these out. This is this is not all of them. But essentially, what he
00:37said was my mother was a mental health nurse who holds five degrees. Who knows that might be true. It's
00:42been cast into doubt. His problems then unable to speak from the age of two to 11. I spent 10
00:50hours a day in speech therapy six or seven days a week.
00:53Now people have gone back and they said where he lived. Well, anywhere in the country. The NHS is not
00:58going to give you 10 hours a day, 60, 70 hours a week. That can't be true. Doctors said there's
01:03nothing in there pointed at him. They said there's nothing in there. He is a vegetable. And then a day
01:08before my 12th birthday, I said my first word. Hello. Doesn't sound true. He says he was in the BBC
01:15series seven up which followed children going up. That can't be true. The BBC said he wasn't reading and writing.
01:21I could not read or write till I was 18. Football and snooker. He played both to a professional level,
01:28including a brief appearance for Crystal Palace. Seems untrue. Medical diagnoses, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, death in one ear, brain tumour
01:37removed just before his PhD, a stroke and a broken leg during a marathon.
01:43Running in 2010 and 2013, 2015. He did 30 marathons in 35 days, including, by the way, breaking his leg
01:51during one, but continuing.
01:53300 miles in three days, 600 miles in six days. Raised more than five million. He's now rode back from
02:00that.
02:01He did water charity work by installing water pumps in Brazil for the charity WaterAid.
02:06They said, no, he didn't. We never send volunteers overseas. I haven't even come to this bit, which is the
02:11key bit, which is the academic work, large sections of which appear to have been copied.
02:17But there's accusations of violent threats. He's been threatened with a knife, physically assaulted.
02:23This is at Cambridge. And spat on, had rape and death threats and bananas sent through the Cambridge postal system.
02:32He then says, we're nearly there, that someone broke into his faculty wearing a mask, carrying a knife and say,
02:38if you didn't stand down, I'm going to stab you.
02:40He tells the Cambridge authorities, obviously, they're very worried. They install CCTV cameras everywhere.
02:46Then he says it's happened again. They look on the CCTV. They can't see anything at all.
02:50So attacked twice or threatened twice by a masked man with a knife and his mother's house had a pig's
02:57head sent to it as a threat.
02:59He then names the butcher shop it was bought from. The newspaper, The Guardian, rings up the butchers and says,
03:06did you sell anyone a pig's head?
03:07They said, no, that's the kind of thing we'd remember anyway. And as I say, the bigger thing of all
03:13of it is the plagiarism.
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