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Outrage as ‘cyberNat’ links Labour activist’s death to crack cocaine

The SNP is at the centre of a fresh row about dirty tricks after an ally of Scottish Enterprise Minister Jim Mather suggested a teenage Labour activist died from using crack cocaine.

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Tom Gordon and Paul Hutcheon

Alan Clayton, an official party contact in Mr Mather’s Argyll and Bute constituency, is facing expulsion after he used his online Nationalist newsletter to smear 18-year-old Danus McKinlay, who died on March 5 after collapsing outside Glasgow City Chambers.