The Trojan Horse Affair - Part 7

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Birmingham authorities struggle to explain why they disavowed their own findings about the Trojan Horse plot. But when Brian and Hamza make a discovery deep inside some court documents, everything suddenly makes sense.

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0:00.0	We're going to pick up a thread we left off a bit ago.
0:04.9	Back from when Hamza and I were reporting in Birmingham and this happened.
0:08.6	I just got a letter from the council threatening an injunction.
0:12.9	Same here buddy.
0:14.6	We are in for more.
0:16.3	We need to figure this out very quickly.
0:19.3	Yeah.
0:20.3	Okay.
0:21.3	Alright.
0:22.3	Hamza and I had been connecting dots for some Birmingham City council members about
0:24.5	the relationship between the Trojan Horse Letter and Adderly Primary School.
0:29.0	The former council leader Albert Boer had just responded by saying he was a guest at
0:33.2	what we were telling him, that what we discovered could have changed the whole course of the Trojan
0:37.6	Horse Affair.
0:39.1	When next we knew, Hamza and I each got an angry letter from council lawyers demanding
0:43.9	that we hand over any confidential council materials we got in the hold of and stop our
0:47.8	reporting on them.
0:49.4	And that if we didn't, they'd take us to the high court of England and Wales and get a
0:53.2	judge to gag us.
0:55.6	In hours again this threat, Brian had fled the city.
1:04.6	He'd hidden our report materials somewhere I didn't know.
1:10.3	And soon, we'd both been Belgium.
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