Rugby star Kenny Logan leads tributes after MND dad dies just before Christmas

The family posted a message on his LinkedIn page, saying: “It’s with a heavy heart I need to share that Scott sadly passed away yesterday afternoon surrounded by his family. Stewart Family x”

Speaking from his London home, former Scotland international Kenny Logan told BBC Scotland News he was devastated at the death of his friend just days before Christmas.

“I’m really shocked. I saw him at his house a month ago and I was playing golf with him just 18 months ago.

“He played two over par, he was a really good golfer. He was playing to almost a professional golf standard, he was a scratch golfer.”

The 52-year-old former Glasgow and London Wasps winger first met Scott when he was a teenager.

“I used to have a coaching clinic called Rugby With Kenny Logan and he used to come to that as a kid.

“He then told me about two years ago, when he was diagnosed with MND, that I had once given him a lift home because his mum and dad were running a bit late to pick him up from my camp and he’d never forgotten it.”

Logan who is also an ambassador for the MND charity My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, said he was “quite emotional” thinking about the last time he was at Scott’s house as his mum and dad were hugging him.

“It’s very sad because he’s got a young family and he just got married and had his daughter about six months ago.”