YOUTH MSP Kit McCarthy will make the case for outlawing high-pitched “Mosquito” alarms at Holyrood today.

The alarms emit a high frequency sound, which most adults are unable to hear, to disperse groups of teenagers.

Mr McCarthy, who represents North East Fife in the Scottish Youth Parliament, will make the case that the alarms infringe “children and young people’s rights” at a public petitions committee meeting this morning.

A petition lodged by Mr McCarthy and fellow MSYP Amy Lee Fraioli says the devices violate the rights to peaceful assembly in the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Research earlier this year showed that the alarms are in use at bus stations, outside shops and outside schools.