AN APPEAL has been made for a former headteacher sentenced last week to be stripped of his knighthood.
Labour leader of Brent Council Muhammed Butt has called for the honour given to Sir Alan Davies in 2000 to be rescinding following his sentence for false accounting.
Mr Davies, a former headteacher at Copland Community School in Cecil Avenue, Wembley, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Friday and was given a 12 month sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting false accounting.
Mr Butt said: “Alan Davies’ behaviour was wholly irresponsible. Brent’s dedicated and upstanding education community remains deeply shocked, as do I.
"This is an individual who held a position of great trust, yet chose to deceive all. He has bought shame on the school and our borough, and does not deserve to continue to hold a knighthood.”
Sir Alan Davies, 66, admitted six counts of false accounting on the eve of a trial for those charges and other fraud charges, which were dropped because the prosecution offered no evidence.
He was knighted in 2000 for services to education.
Sir Alan resigned from the secondary school in October 2009 before he could face an internal disciplinary hearing for gross misconduct following an investigation by Brent Council into allegations of financial mismanagement.
Five co-defendants and former colleagues all walked free after charges against them were dropped.
