A transgender inmate who is jailed for life has said she would be at risk of sexual violence if she was transferred to a male prison.
A transgender inmate has said she would be at risk of sexual violence if she was transferred to a male prison.
The 38-year-old was dubbed ‘Hannibal Lecter Junior’ after she used shoelaces as a garotte to strangle her cellmate – a month before she was due to be freed from a young offenders’ institution for dangerous driving. ‘The main threat was that I would suffer serious sexual violence,’ she told the Daily Record. ‘I think Scottish Prison Service staff manage trans prisoners well but it would be impossible for me to feel safe in a male prison.’Eastwood has been described as a difficult prisoner
Her comments come amid a heated political dispute over transgender inmates in Scotland, which erupted after convicted rapist Isla Bryson was put in a women’s prison.
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