A millionaire businessman and rock drummer has taken up Alex Salmond’s case against the Scottish government.
Salmond had been suing over a botched investigation into harassment complaints made about him before he died of a heart attack in 2024.
Paul McManus, drummer with the Scottish band Gun and a supporter of Scottish Labour, has now said he will fund the action after Salmond’s widow Moira agreed to transfer the legal rights of the case.
McManus said he never met the former SNP and Alba leader and disagreed with him politically but believed there had been a plot against him. The Scottish government and leading SNP figures including Nicola Sturgeon have consistently denied this.
Salmond was suing the government for misfeasance – a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority – when he died in October 2024 while attending a conference in North Macedonia.
He had already been awarded more than £500,000 in costs by the Scottish government over the mishandling of harassment complaints against him.
