Let-off for headteacher who ran illegal Islamic school

A headteacher who carried on teaching after she was convicted of running an illegal Islamic private school has been let off with a suspended jail sentence. Nadia Ali, 40, denied that Ambassadors High School in Streatham was a full-time ‘school’ on the basis that it only offers 18 hours of education per week. Pupils were charged £2,500 a year at the institution which had 45 students. Ali and her father Arshad Ali, 74, were first convicted of running an unregistered…