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730. The rise and fall of Jason Arday: a full rundown of the questions being asked / Jason Arday was a British academic who tragically took his own life after he was exposed as a plagiarist and fabulist who'd conned his way into a top professorship at Cambridge University. He faked hat / 2026-08-06
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Type of hoax: suspected
Date: 2025-07-01
Location: Cambridge UK
Summary: The late Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been proven beyond doubt to be a serial fabulist. One of his tales involve a man threatening him with a knife, but the intruder was not picked up by CCTV on either occasion and no one in the faculty reported seeing anyone suspicious, and Arday did not report either intrusion at the time. He claimed a pig's head was left outside his parents' home, but this is also false. He mentioned race as being a factor.