Revealed: Notorious Scottish men’s prison which houses murderers and paedophiles where transgender rapist Isla Bryson will serve eight-year sentence
- Isla Bryson, 31, was today jailed for the rape of two women three years apart
- Double rapist will serve sentence at HMP Edinburgh, home to 900 prisoners
Transgender rapist Isla Bryson has been sent to Scotland’s most notorious men’s prison after being jailed for eight years for the rape of two women while still a man.
Bryson, 31, was last month convicted of raping a woman in Clydebank in 2016 and a second victim in Drumchapel three years later while a man known as Adam Graham.
The criminal is said to have ‘preyed’ on vulnerable women was today pictured hiding behind a blonde bob and pink hooded jumper inside a prison van outside the High Court in Edinburgh.
Lord Scott today said Bryson, who changed gender while waiting to stand trial, ‘presents a particularly significant risk to any woman with whom you form a relationship’.
The double rapist will serve the sentence at HMP Edinburgh, also known as Saughton Prison, which was built in 1920 and holds around 900 prisoners per day.
Isla Bryson leaves Edinburgh High Court in a prison van after being sentenced to eight years in jail today
HMP Edinburgh at Saughton, where Bryson has been sent to serve an eight-year prison sentence
The jail was for many years the home of serial killer and paedophile Peter Tobin.
Assassin James McDonald, is serving 35 years – the longest jail term in Scottish history – and was sent there for shooting members of the rival Lyons crime clan in a drive-by.
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In 2017 at HMP Edinburgh he left fellow murderer Raymond Cartwright with stab wounds to his face and stomach, hit another man with ‘a blunt instrument’ and head-butted a prison guard in the five man brawl.
Limbs in the Loch killer William Beggs is serving a life sentence in Saughton Prison, Edinburgh, for raping, murdering and dismembering Barry Wallace, 18, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in 1999.
The teenager’s limbs and torso were found in Loch Lomond and his head was dumped in the sea off the Ayrshire coast.
Bryson is also in the same jail as two other sex offenders who say they want to be women. Rapist Albert Caballero, 50, is now wishing to be known as Claire and asked guards for lipstick and eye make-up to make him look more feminine.
Serial rapist Jonathon Mallon, 40, has declared that he now wants to be called Charlene and told inmates that he hopes to be moved into a Scottish women’s jail by Easter. The predator was caged for life in 2014 after a 14-year reign of attacks on a string of vulnerable women.
It contains pre-op trans killer Paris Green. Green, who was born Peter Laing, who helped torture a man to death after a row over a bag of chips.
Isla Bryson (pictured on Monday) attended Ayrshire College’s Kilwinning Campus in 2021 while awaiting trial for rape
Undated handout file photo issued by Police Scotland of Isla Bryson, formerly known as Adam Graham
Serial killer Peter Tobin died in October after becoming unwell at HMP Edinburgh where he was serving three life sentences
Limbs in the Loch killer William Beggs is serving a life sentence in Saughton Prison
The killer was moved to the women’s wing at HMP Edinburgh after being thrown out of Cornton Vale, where Bryson was held, after reports about having sex with female prisoners in the cells.
Rachel Trelfa is also held there. She and her then civil partner Nyomi Fee chained two-year-old Liam Fee to a cage in a room filled with snakes and rats before murdering him in 2014.
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Liam – Trelfa’s son – was beaten so severely that medics likened his injuries to those usually sustained by car crash victims.
Meanwhile, three prison officers are understood to have been sacked from the prison earlier this month after assaulting an inmate.
The officers, said to be physical training instructors, allegedly attacked a 24-year-old prisoner in his cell in September last year.
It comes as Bryson was sentenced to eight years in prison at the today, with a further three years on licence.
The case sparked an uproar after Bryson was initially housed in an all-female prison. In the wake of this outcry, the criminal was moved to the male estate.
Scotland’s Justice Secretary Keith Brown ordered an urgent review of the case and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) stopped the movement of all transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women into the female estate.
During sentencing today, Lord Scott noted Bryson continues to ‘vehemently deny’ the offences, claiming the victims ‘colluded’ to press charges.
The court heard the rapist, who appeared in court wearing a blonde wig, black leggings and fluorescent pink jacket, is still pursuing full gender reassignment and is on ‘the maximum recommended doses of hormone prescription’ from Glasgow’s Sandyford sexual health service clinic.
But Lord Scott said the seriousness of the crimes ‘far outweigh’ Bryson’s mitigatory circumstances.
Gangster James McDonald (left), serving the longest jail term in Scottish history, 35 years, for shooting members of the rival Lyons crime clan served in HMP Edinburgh
Bryson, 31, was convicted last month of raping two women, pictured outside court for a previous hearing
He acknowledged Bryson is considered ‘vulnerable in some ways’ due to adverse childhood experiences, but said: ‘You see yourself as the victim in this situation. You are not.
‘Your vulnerability is no excuse at all for what you did to these two women.
‘You raped two women who can both be regarded as vulnerable.’
Lord Scott said Bryson was, in fact, ‘preying on these two women because of their vulnerability and raped them in their own homes where they were entitled to feel safe’.
Addressing Bryson, he added: ‘You are not at the stage of accepting what you did or acknowledging the serious harm you inflicted on two women.’
He said the rapist was ‘a high risk of reoffending’, adding: ‘There will need to be a high level of supervision.’
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