Simon Baron-Cohen, the distinguished Cambridge autism specialist, has been speaking movingly about his friend, Jason Arday, in a BBC radio interview. Baron-Cohen said the last contact he had with Arday was hours before he was found dead at an address in south London yesterday afternoon: “He really wasn’t coping. He was being subjected to relentless scrutiny…ridicule, discrediting every detail of his life… He wasn’t coping with the loss of his career, the loss of his reputation. He felt he couldn’t go on.”

Jason Arday was a victim, but not in the way that his political champions suggest

Jason Arday was a victim, but not in the way that his political champions suggest

Baron-Cohen went on to talk about him as “an incredibly kind and gentle and caring and generous man”. From his own perspective, he observed, “at the heart of........

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