MPs call for investigation into ex-spy’s claim of discrimination against daughter

Aimen Dean and his wife allege there was a “toxic environment” at the school after parents complained he was a security risk. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Senior MPs have called for a robust investigation into a complaint by a former British spy against one of Scotland’s leading private schools after he alleged his daughter was discriminated against.

Aimen Dean, who spied inside al-Qaida for British intelligence for eight years, has lodged a complaint with Scotland’s Registrar of Independent Schools claiming his daughter was unfairly treated because a handful of parents at St George’s School in Edinburgh thought he was a security risk.