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Sex workers accuse MSP Rhoda Grant of locking them out of Holyrood meeting on Purchase of Sex Bill
Scottish Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation says campaign group Scot-Pep excluded because meeting was not forum for discussing criminalisation 'pros and cons'
Sex workers accused an MSP yesterday who plans to criminalise their clients of locking them out of a Holyrood meeting on the issue.
Labour backbencher Rhoda Grant was due to meet organisations and other MSPs yesterday to discuss her private member’s Bill that would make it a criminal offence to pay for sex.
But grass-roots group Scot-Pep members said they had been barred from the meeting.
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