A series of frustrating interviews with Birmingham politicians leaves Brian and Hamza wondering if crucial information about the Trojan Horse letter was kept from officials in London. Then one rainy Friday afternoon, Brian hears back from a government source who wants to meet right away.
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As we uncovered more clues about who could have written the Trojan horse letter, every so often, Hans 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 ahold of the audit report.
And that's the audit report.
This is the Birmingham City Council's report about whether head teacher Rizvana Dhar had faked resignation letters from four teaching assistants at her school, Adderley 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, step 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 counsel investigation.
It is also, that's the audit report.