As we uncovered more clues about who could have written the Trojan Horse Letter, every

so often, Hamza and I would go back and reread the letter itself to see whether the new information

we were finding unlocked any of the letter's secrets.

We definitely did that after we got a hold of the audit report.

And that's the audit report.

This is the Birmingham City Council's report about whether head teacher Rizwan Adar had

faked resignation letters from four teaching assistants at her school, Adderly Primary.

The audit report, remember, predated the Trojan Horse Letter.

And so, after digesting the audit, Hamza and I gave the Trojan Horse Letter another look.

Oh my god.

Hamza started shaking his head.

The audit report, the fact of it, it looked like it had been incorporated right into the Trojan

Horse Letter.

Get a load of step four of the plot, Hamza says to me.

Four is the part of the letter that says you're supposed to get TAs to cook up allegations

against the head teacher in order to spark an investigation.

To add credibility to the issue, it is always better to push for an external council investigation.

It is also the audit report.

What hadn't jumped out at us until we read the audit is that according to the letter,

the TAs are supposed to push for a specific type of inquiry into the head teacher they're

targeting, an external council investigation.

The audit investigation we just read was exactly that, an external council investigation into

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