Scissor killer seeks ban on biological males in women's jails
Jayney Sutherley was acquitted of transphobic abuse of trans murderer Alex Baker - who is still being held in women's jail despite being biologically male
A female prisoner accused of anti-trans hate against a biological male killer in a women's jail has spoken out about her 'hell' after being cleared.
Jayney Sutherley has blasted the Scottish Government and prison bosses for continuing to house biological males in female prisons.
The hairdresser, who killed a man with her scissors, was cleared on Monday of waging a four year hate campaign against trans murderer Alex Stewart and partner Nyomi Fee, a notorious child killer.
Now Sutherley says prison chiefs must drop their policy of allowing inmates to choose their gender - which has remained despite a Supreme Court decision that states the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.
Sutherley claims she was the one who was persecuted, not Stewart and Fee.
And she claims the regime inside HMP Greenock, which continues to house Stewart, 37, alongside her lover Fee, 36, is biased against women.
Sutherley said: 'A woman in prison has no chance. They are told to shut up and accept trans women or they are branded haters.
'But I want everyone to know that there are women in here who have suffered at the hands of men and they have concerns that there are still trans men, with a penis, in the shower next door to them.
'We don't stand as chance, as we get labelled if we say what we feel. But trans women change the rules to suit.'
At Greenock Sheriff Court, Sutherley faced a charge of abusing Stewart and Fee continuously for four years.
Her lawyer claimed the charges only arose after the case of Isla Bryson blew up in the world media in January, 2023.
Bryson only declared themselves a woman after being charged with rape and was set to be housed at a women's prison HMP until a public outcry forced a U-turn.
Sutherley said she was denied parole hearings due to the case hanging over her for two years.
Writing from Saughton Prison, where she is now serving her sentence, she wrote: 'It is bullying by the Scottish Prison Service. I never got a chance or was asked about the events I was charged with and it affected me getting out.
'Please stop other girls going through this as it's not fair.
'We don't get a say on how we feel when trans women get privileged lock-ins with their girlfriends and we get shipped or punished if we are vocal.
'I don't hate anyone but the SPS and Scottish Government have a lot to answer for because trans women with a penis shouldn't be in women's jails, just to make their jail time easy or give them loopholes to progress further while having sexual relationships.'
Sutherley claimed the Scottish justice system was turned against her after she dared to complain about showering in cubicles next door to trans-identified males with fully intact genitals.
She said: 'From the minute I got into prison it worried me.
'No-one told me transwomen would be in the prisons.
'At one point I was expected to shower with two transwomen taking up two of the four showers. I only had allocated time so went without that because Alex often stood at the mirror for ages when he got out his shower and I felt he could see me.
'The prison managers didn't ask the prisoners how we felt about living with transwomen.'
Sutherley, 51, said she was one of two nominated inmates who took concerns to prison managers.
She said: 'Myself and a friend, who is a gay woman, went in with complaints.
'After that my life was hell, with accusations of being homophobic and transphobic hurling in from Alex and Nyomi, some of them sicker than others.'
The court hearing heard claims that Stewart and Fee had provoked complaints from inmates after appearing to have sex in the prison showers and in a public area.
'Match made in hell' between child killer and murdered who changed gender
When Nyomi Fee's engagement to Alex Stewart was revealed in 2021, it was greeted as a 'match made in hell'.
Both had been jailed for life for dreadful murders.
Fee was caged for 24 years after she and ex-civil partner Rachel Trelfa, 34, were convicted in 2016 of Liam's murder, at the High Court in Livingston.
The evil pair had subjected the tot to a horrific campaign of abuse and neglect, including chaining him to a cage in a room full of snakes and rats.
The fiends also inflicted suffering on two other boys in Thornton, Fife.
Trelfa, who was Liam's birth mother, was locked up for 23 and a half years for her part in his murder.
Fee started a relationship with Alex Stewart in 2019 and fellow prisoners were soon left furious after claims that Fee brazenly 'groped' her transgender girlfriend in the nick.
Stewart was known as Alan Baker when he knifed John Weir, 36, to death at his flat in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, in 2012 - hours after they met on a dating site.
Earlier in the Sutherley trial it was revealed that the only gender related surgery undergone by Stewart was to reduce the
Jayney Sutherley, was jailed for six years in 2020 for the culpable homicide of Alistair MacFadyen in a flat in Paisley.
She stabbed her victim with scissors after claiming he attacked her.
Sutherley was originally accused of murder but pled guilty to culpable homicide at the High Court in Glasgow.
Sutherley said: 'If women in same sex relationships get put on a report for the slightest show of affection, why has the relationship between Alex and Nyomi been encouraged and facilitated by staff?
'And if you complain about the situation you get labelled and shipped out?'
Sutherley said Stewart was not afraid of her and had asked her for a haircut for a special graduation ceremony inside prison.
She said: 'She wasn't scared when I was doing her hair for her graduation day. She asked for me to get the hairdressers open especially for her as it had been closed for weeks.
'The governor, who was a hairdresser, offered to do it and she said no - she wanted me. Where in that is fear?'
Sutherley had also been accused of taunting Stewart by suggesting a Shania Twain hit for Stewart at the jail karaoke night.
She wrote: 'I refused to go to karaoke because I wasn't being subjected to the torture of people singing and, to be honest, I stayed away from them at all costs.
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'The comment about the song 'Man, I Feel Like A Woman' wasn't even said to or about Alex. It was another trans woman who said she was going to sing it.'
Sutherley said she was allowed in Saughton to be separated from any transwomen.
She added: 'Greenock is a hotel for monsters and a place of fear for women. The staff don't care about our past history or why we behave in a certain manner.
'I was a prisoner in my own cell but after being shipped to Saughton the staff are confused as I'm not the person who they have read reports on. And I'm not trying hard, I'm just being me.'
Last month, after a challenge by the For Women Scotland group, the UK's highest legal authority the Supreme Court ruled that in the Equality Act 2010 'sex' means biological sex.
Since the ruling many institutions have reverted to excluding biological males from women's spaces.
This includes the SFA which has banned trans-identified males from competing in women's football.
When asked by the Daily Record about Sutherley's claims, a Scottish Prison Service spokesperson said: 'Our staff work hard to support the health, safety, and wellbeing of all people living and working in Scotland's prisons.
'We have received the Supreme Court's judgement and are considering any potential impact it may have.'
A Scottish Government spokesperson said the housing of prisoners was a matter for the SPS.
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