A microphone picked up Mr McAveety telling an official: "There's a very attractive girl in the second row: dark and dusky. I'll maybe have to put a wee word out for her. She's very attractive-looking. Nice, very nice."
It later emerged the girl in question was on work experience with the Green MSPs. A source today confirmed she was "15 or 16".
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