Scott Macdonald-Anderson

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Scott James Macdonald-Anderson (formally known as Scott Anderson) was born on 29 July 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is most known for being Scottish Amateur Gymnastic Champion 1995[citation needed].

Macdonald-Anderson is also known for being involved in a 1997 political scandal. Macdonald-Anderson (he was known as Anderson then) was alleged to have a homosexual affair with Gordon McMaster, MP for Paisley South[citation needed]. As the age of consent for homosexual sex was 18, McMaster would have been technically committing statutory rape. When details of the affair leaked to the press[citation needed], McMaster committed suicide on 27 July 1997 by locking himself in his car in the garage of his home in Johnstone and intoxicating himself with lethal fumes. This was two days before Anderson's 17th birthday. Anderson has always denied the affair and always insisted he would never speak publicly about it, despite being offered a reported six figure deal by a Sunday Tabloid[citation needed].

Macdonald-Anderson was involved in an accident in 2002, which left him paralysed and wheelchair bound[citation needed]. He spent 13 months in the rehabilitation centre at The Queen Elizabeth II Spinal Injuries Unit in Glasgow where he was told by doctors he would not walk again[citation needed]. Within a year he was walking with the aid of crutches, and walking unaided within 18 months[citation needed].

He now is now in a civil partnership with his partner, a public sector accountant, and as such is now known as Scott Barclay[citation needed].