A SCOTTISH Labour MSP has resigned from a party role over her friendship with a convicted sex offender.

Pam Duncan-Glancy has quit as Scottish Labour 's education spokesperson after details of her friendship with disgraced former councillor Sean Morton were revealed, the Daily Record reports.

Morton, a former Moray councillor, confessed in 2017 to possessing indecent images of girls under 15 and of a couple having sex with a dog.

He pled guilty and was given a community payback order which included 140 hours of unpaid work.

He was also given a three-year supervision order and was placed on the sex offenders register for three years.

The Record reports Morton was a "life-long" friend of Duncan-Glancy at the time, stating that the pair remain "good friends".

Pam Duncan-Glancy (Ima

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