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Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found dead
Tributes have been paid to Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor, after he was found dead at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
In a statement issued by his publisher Simon & Schuster UK, Prof Arday's family said they were "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son".
They said a "campaign of misinformation" had been too much for him.
Arday, 41, resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last