"I believed in what the Mirror stood for - social justice, decent and honest standards in public life and the right for people with small voices to be heard loud and clear".
[3] After Stott headed a failed management attempt at a buyout, the new chief executive of Mirror Group David Montgomery fired him.
At the suggestion of owner Rupert Murdoch, Stott edited the Today newspaper from 1993 to November 1995, when the paper ceased publication.
The younger brother of the actor Judith Stott,[4] his brother-in-law for nearly twenty-years was the comedian Dave Allen, also an amateur artist, whom he greatly admired.
Stott died in London, aged 63, of pancreatic cancer; he was survived by his widow Penny, three children and four grandchildren.