LONDON, ENGLAND.- After learning that his friend Brendan Neiland was expelled from the Royal Academy of Arts, Sir Peter Blake resigned from the academy. Sir Peter Blake was outraged by the academy’s decision.

Sir Peter Blake stated, “My main reason is that I no longer want to be a part of a group that would do that to someone.”

Blake taught Professor Neiland at the Royal College of Art and is convinced of his innocence. Blake stated, “He did not do anything criminal. What he did was silly… In any institution, whether a school or the services, the only way to get things done is to go around rules — you don’t break them, you go around them.”

Blake also attacked Justice Moses because he did not interview him: “How can you write a report without speaking to him? They treated Brendan as though he was someone working in a bank who had embezzled money. He didn’t embezzle anything. They knew about the account. He was just extremely foolish. Everyone has said that.”