Jason Arday's family 'still coming to terms' with his death as vigil held

Lord Simon Woolley, main of Homerton College astatine the University of Cambridge, told the vigil that erstwhile helium met with Arday past week, the world told him helium felt that critics were "hounding maine to death".

Filmmaker and activistic Misan Harriman told the vigil: "The bequest media crossed each enactment successful the attraction of Jason.

"Imagine being truthful mislaid successful the concern of cruelty that you relish hurting different quality for sport, with your ain poison pen."

He added: "Jason should inactive beryllium present today."

The University of Cambridge initially said claims of plagiarism regarding Arday's thesis and immoderate diary publications had been investigated by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the journals successful question.

LJMU - which awarded Arday his PhD successful 2015 - concluded that helium had not plagiarised work.

But past week, Cambridge announced an autarkic probe into his appointment.

Arday, 41, was recovered dormant astatine an code successful southbound London, connected Friday. He had resigned arsenic a Cambridge prof of sociology of acquisition connected 5 August, saying his resignation should not "be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that person surrounded me".

Monday's vigil came arsenic much than 90,000 radical signed a Good Law Project petition seeking an enquiry into media sum of Arday.

Earlier, Cambridge University's chancellor criticised the "racist feeding frenzy" astir Arday successful the weeks earlier his death.

Speaking publically for the archetypal clip connected the row, Lord Chris Smith said world integrity could beryllium upheld portion questioning Arday's treatment.

In a statement, helium said: "I bash judge it is imaginable to clasp to 2 principles astatine the aforesaid time: to judge successful the value of world integrity, and wherever criticisms of plagiarism arise, astir immoderate academic, whoever they are, guarantee that they are rigorously investigated.

"And besides to garbage to articulation successful a racist feeding frenzy implicit a peculiar academic."