Jason Arday told friend ‘he couldn’t go on’ just hours before his death

Jason Arday has been found dead (Picture: University of Cambridge Faculty/SWNS) A friend of former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday has spoken about receiving voice notes from the academic, saying that ‘he couldn’t go on’. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, University of Cambridge professor, and director of the Autism Research Centre, Sir Simon Baron-Cohen shared that he had spoken to Arday on Friday morning. He told the BBC show: ‘He was being subjected to relentless scrutiny, including ridicule, discrediting absolutely every detail of his life, and he wasn’t coping with the loss of his career, the loss of his reputation, and he felt he couldn’t go on. ‘He used those words in voice notes.’ Sir Simon added that his ‘kind and gentle’ friend had been ‘a vulnerable child, a vuln