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Daily Record
25-05-2025
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Female prisoner claims she was blocked from parole over 'trans' abuse of inmate
'I'm not transphobic- I just don't like Alex as a person." A female prisoner has claimed she was blocked from applying for parole for four years after being accused of an anti-trans hate campaign against a killer. Jayney Sutherley stood accused of trans-phobic verbal abuse towards murderer Alex Stewart, formerly Alan Baker, and child killer lover Nyomi Fee inside HMP Greenock between 2019 and 2023. However the hate crime case against Sutherley was found not proven, and Sheriff Millar added that referring to a trans person by their 'original biological state' was not transphobic. Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail from HMP Polmont, the grandmother said: 'I am so glad this case is over. When I left the dock, my legs buckled. I've not stopped crying.' Sutherley's solicitor told Greenock Sheriff Court Stewart only complained four years after the alleged abuse began after the case of rapist Isla Bryson in 2023 which resulted in prison service policies on where trans lags are housed being placed under review. Hairdresser Sutherley, 51, who killed a man with scissors, has told how she was denied being able to apply for parole due to the case which she believes was a bid by male-born Stewart to stay in a female jail. She added: 'Because of Alex I have lost three years of my life and precious time with my granddaughter. 'My latest parole hearing was the day of the trial. But I couldn't go with this hanging over my head, I had to be in court. 'This has stopped me progressing towards parole for years. I might not have been given parole at each hearing, but I was denied even the chance to try. 'These claims from Alex all came about when trans prisoners were put on notice and locked up for a month, when Nicola Sturgeon couldn't make up her mind after the Isla Bryson case. Trans prisoners feared getting moved to male jails. ' Alex wasn't scared of me. Despite knowing my crime, I killed a man with scissors, Alex still requested the prison salon to be opened for me to do hair for their art graduation. Why do that if you think I'm transphobic and you're afraid of me?' Bryson, born Adam Graham, began to identify as a woman while awaiting trial for rape. Bryson was sent to female jail Cornton Vale before ex-First Minister Sturgeon announced a switch to all-male HMP Edinburgh. Trans cons faced being moved to male jails but prison chiefs opted to let them stay if they had not shown violence to women. In April Britain's highest court ruled only two biological sexes – male and female, assigned at birth – can be recognised under the 2010 Equality Act. But Sutherley says existing SPS policies leave female cons at risk of facing similar sanctions to her if they're accused of being transphobic. Sutherley added: 'I don't have a problem with trans women. I am friends with Paris Green, who is trans. 'I just don't like Alex Stewart as a person, that is not a crime. I don't want to talk to Nyomi or make Christmas cards with her because she killed a baby. 'The system needs to change, the SPS needs to start listening to the majority and stop being scared of the minority. 'In women's jails, trans prisoners are given so many more privileges as people are afraid to get it wrong. There is no segregation in Greenock so when I was in the shower Alex would be in the cubicle next to me. 'But Alex would have all day to shower, we wouldn't. 'Nyomi and Alex run the jail. No-one can say anything in fear of being accused of being transphobic and end up with a court case hanging over their heads for four years. I don't want this to happen to any other women.' Hairdresser Sutherley was jailed for six years and eight months in 2020 for killing Alistair MacFadyen in Paisley. Stewart, 37, changed gender in 2016 after being jailed three years earlier for murdering dad-of-two John Weir. Fee was ordered to serve a minimum of 24 years after she and ex Rachel Trelfa, 34, were convicted in 2016 of killing Rachel's two-year-old son Liam. Bryson, 33, was convicted of raping women, as Graham in 2023 and jailed for eight years, with a further three on licence. Kate Coleman, former director of Keep Prisons Single Sex, said: 'The impact on Jayney has been immense.' The Parole Board for Scotland said they do not comment on individual cases. 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.'
Daily Record
22-05-2025
- Politics
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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. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. '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.
Daily Record
19-05-2025
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Scissor killer cleared over trans prison row after court hears of murderers' jail shower sex
Killer hairdresser Jayney Sutherley was cleared of a four-year transphobic abuse campaign. A killer who was accused of a four-year anti-trans hate campaign was cleared after a court heard about claims that her 'victim' - a biological male - had sex sessions in the shower block with their female lover. Jayne Sutherley, who killed a man with scissors, had been accused of hounding trans murderer Alex Stewart and his lover Nyomi Fee, a notorious child killer inside HMP Greenock. But the case against Sutherley was found not proven after Greenock Sheriff Court heard claims that 'suicidal' trans woman Stewart, 36, had been more stressed about being moved out of the women's prison and into the male estate. The court previously heard how Stewart claimed to have suicidal feelings after alleged transphobic outbursts by Sutherley. These included being told she should sing Shania Twain's 'Man, I Feel Like a Woman' at a Christmas karaoke at HMP Greenock. Sutherley had also been accused of referring to the couple as "the trannie and the beast' and 'the trannie and the dyke'. But the Paisley hairdresser was cleared on a not proven verdict after Sheriff Millar believed there was a reasonable doubt. During evidence yesterday, Sutherley's solicitor Paul Lynch was told by Fee that Stewart - who still has full male genitalia - used Darroch Hall's only shower block. Lynch said: 'One complaint by some inmates was about you and Alex Stewart having sexual activity in the showers?' Fee said no such complaint had ever reached her and that it had not been logged in the jail's 'intel' system. Lynch also put to Fee that other women prisoners were made to feel uncomfortable after they both placed coats over their laps in a public part of the prison and were engaging in a sexual act. The lawyer also extracted from Fee that she had discussed her evidence in advance with Stewart - despite the sheriff instructing her not too after an earlier adjournment two months ago. After the sheriff gave his judgement, Lynch said his client had been denied parole due to this case hanging over her. He revealed that he has written to the Scottish Prison Service twice to ask if they will now abandon the policy that allows biological males to be housed in the male estate. He said the recent Supreme Court decision - which states that biology defines a person's sex - should be observed. Lynch said: 'This is a case that should never have been brought to court. 'If the SPS had acted lawfully at the time Alex Stewart would not have been in Darroch Hall. It is that action that led to the situation today. Lynch said the 'most telling' and significant evidence in the case was the fact Stewart only complained about Sutherley's alleged abuse - four years after it allegedly started - after the controversial case of Isla Bryson blew up in the world media. Double rapist Bryson had changed gender after being accused of attacking women and was set for a female jail until a public outcry in January 2023. All trans prisoners in women's jails were then put on a 'Rule 95' - which meant they were detained in their cells and faced being moved out to the male estate. The SPS later decided to allow prisoners to stay if they had not shown violence against women, subject to risk assessments. Lynch said: 'The timing of the complaint by Alex Stewart was the most telling piece of evidence in this case.' The trial also heard that from Nyomi Fee an admission that her lover was scared because she feared she would be moved out of Greenock. Fee said: 'Alex hasn't been the same since she was put on that rule. She is scared. 'I spoke to her. She was upset and confused. She hadn't done anything.' Sheriff Millar said he was left unconvinced as he heard little evidence from SPS officers, despite claims that internal prison investigations had been conducted onto the allegations. He said: 'The Crown has not produced anything that could be called corroboration outside of that grouping [the three prisoners. 'The court was told that prison officers spoke to the accused, prison staff investigated and Her Majesty's Inspectorate carried out an investigation. 'And yet a prison officer who should have known about the matters did not know about them. 'That has served to leave a doubt in my mind. 'It is because of that doubt, to which you are entitled to benefit, that I find the matter not proven.' Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Dr Kate Coleman, of the Keep Prisons Single Sex pressure group, said the case shows how biological males should not be in the female estate. She said: 'Alex Stewart should never have been in a women's prison. The Supreme Court judgment makes it clear that he is no more entitled to be there than any other man serving a prison sentence. Why is the Scottish Prison Service so reluctant to comply with both the law and common decency and remove him, and all other male prisoners, to the male estate? 'I welcome today's verdict. But this entire case, where the witnesses for the prosecution colluded on their evidence, has been She saan injustice. 'Jayney has still been punished. Aside from the considerable psychological and emotional toll, she has repeated missed out on the possibility of parole. The process is indeed the punishment. This case should never have come to court, not least because Alex Stewart should never have been in a women's prison.' 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."
