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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We're going to pick up a thread we left off a bit ago, back from when Hamz and I were reporting in Birmingham and this happened.
I just got a letter from the council threatening an injunction.
Same here, buddy.
We are in trouble.
We need to figure this out very quickly.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
Homs and I had been connecting dots for some Birmingham city council members about the relationship between the Trojan horse, Sledderhead and Adderley Primary School.
The former council leader, Albert Bohr, had just responded by saying he was aghast at what we were telling him, that what we discovered could have changed the whole course of the Trojan horse affair.
When next we knew, Hamza and I each got an angry letter from council lawyers demanding that we hand over any confidential council materials we've gotten a hold of and stop our reporting on them.
And that if we didn't, they'd take us to the high court of England and Wales and get a judge to gag us.
Within hours against this threat, Brian had fled the city.
As you know, I'm not in Birmingham right now.