Footnotes
Bedu Annan ( Ghana, Sweden
Sheldon Litt
The Telegraph ;
Cambridge chancellor: We must uphold academic integrity in wake of Arday tragedy
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Bernard Porter ( Happy Birthday today) : Cambridge ( blog pieces
The University of Cambridge
On Sunday, 16 August 2026 at 21:30:59 UTC+2 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
None of this of course having to do with his academic prowess:
Jason Arday : a list of contested claims about his life story. (Microsoft Edge
Jason Arday : a list of contested claims about his life story. ( Google
“No foul play”, but according to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, they more or less hounded Jason Arday to death…
No one is being accused, and we are not privy to the exact details of the last hours of his life, but In the precarious situation this sensitive, vulnerable soul found himself in, when he would most need some round-the-clock professional psychological counselling and other emotional support in order to cope with the stress, it’s all the more amazing that apparently he was alone - or left alone, in solitude in that flat, to brave the malicious onslaught, possibly even receiving threatening phone calls, afraid to go out to face the vicious unknown ….
When dear friend Bedu Annan departed from this life by self-annihilation I discussed the tragedy with Sheldon Litt , a psychologist and he told me that when a man does that it’s either one of two things: Woman or money problems.
Bedu was in the phase known as manic-depressive
We also know that there’s this other emotional factor :Sense of honour
On Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 14:14:52 UTC+2 Michael Afolayan wrote:
I wish it did not happen. It did NOT have to happen. May all those he has left behind be comforted. Sad!
MOA
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