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A project manager from Perthshire is suing his former employers, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), after claiming his work in Bahrain has given him post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Alexander Cook, 62, has raised an action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh claiming £150,000 damages against the SQA.

He claims that he developed PTSD after being exposed to civil unrest during business trips abroad. The SQA is contesting the action.

During his work with the SQA, Mr Cook travelled to Beirut in Lebanon, Djakarta in Indonesia, Cairo in Egypt and was on a business trip to Saudi Arabia when unrest broke out in Bahrain, where he said he was required to help with the evacuation of employees.

Mr Cook’s claim against his former employer includes loss of earnings and for pain and suffering. The SQA maintains that it was not reasonably foreseeable that he would suffer psychiatric injury as a result of carrying out his duties.