Alex McKinnon's legal action against NRL backed by mother of quadriplegic former league player

By Adam Pengilly
Updated January 1 2017 - 12:18am, first published December 31 2016 - 7:00pm
An emotional Alex McKinnon is wheeled onto Hunter Stadium in 2014. Photo: Jonathan Carroll
An emotional Alex McKinnon is wheeled onto Hunter Stadium in 2014. Photo: Jonathan Carroll

The mother of a former rugby league player who unsuccessfully tried to sue a governing body after a scrum collapsed and left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life says Alex McKinnon has every right to pursue a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the NRL.

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