University chiefs spent an eye-watering £280,000 on an independent report into a disgraced professor labelled a “whitewash”.
The cost of the inquiry into how Strathclyde University handled complaints about Kevin O’Gorman has been criticised by ex-colleagues.In 2019 former lecturer O’Gorman was convicted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court of abusing seven male students at two universities where he taught.Strathclyde commissioned an inquiry after it emerged it had allowed him to leave during an ongoing disciplinary action with a pay-off that let him join Heriot-Watt University in a promoted post.The university, a registered charity financed largely by public funds, blocked Sunday Mail attempts to find out costs of the report.It said revealing the.
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