DETECTIVES have arrested another person in connection with alleged financial mismanagement at a Wembley School.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service Fraud Squad arrested a 56-year-old man from his home in Essex this morning.

He was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud in an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of funds at Copland Community School, in Cecil Avenue.

He was taken in for questioning and remains in custody.

A 71-year-old man arrested yesterday as part of the same investigation has been bailed to return to a north-west London police station on a date in late September.

The school's ex-head Sir Alan Davies, deputy Dr Richard Evans and a 50-year-old woman were questioned on Tuesday, March 1.

The trio were bailed by police to return in September.

Two people, a man and a woman, both 51, were also arrested and taken in for questioning from separate addresses in north west London on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud on March 10.