A mother-of-four says she owned up to a crime she didn’t commit just to steer clear of returning to a Scottish prison with two trans inmates, locked up for murder and sexual assault. The Mail has the story.
Amanda Benson, 42, from Inverkip, Scotland, was imprisoned on remand at HMP Greenock with the two trans women – murderer Alex Stewart, 34, and sexual assaulter Laura Miller, 30.
Neither have had gender surgery or taken gender-affirming hormones, Mrs. Benson said.
Stewart – previously known as Alan Baker – was jailed for 19 years for stabbing father-of-two John Weir, 36, to death after they met on a dating site.
The trans prisoner reportedly started dating a female child killer in HMP Greenock in 2020.
Miller was jailed for almost two years in 2022 after he sexually assaulted a woman who had taken sleeping medication on multiple occasions in 2017 and even filmed one of the attacks, in which he made an offensive sexual remark about her.
Although he had committed the offence when he was in jail with Mrs. Benson, it was only in 2022 that he was convicted of that crime. In 2018, he was in Greenock Prison for a different unknown crime.
Mrs. Benson revealed she was so terrified of being raped and impregnated by the murderer or sex pest that she had a contraceptive coil fitted at the prison run by the Scottish Government.
She told MailOnline: “I took a plea deal and plead[ed] guilty even though I didn’t do it.
“It’s terrifying to be in there with them so [I did anything] to get out of there.
“I felt the threat that I could have been raped by these men and that could have led to me falling pregnant.
“They were both quite tall. One was very heavy. He dressed like a man. The other guy tried to wear sparkly jeans.
“Neither had had any surgery. They just said they were women and wanted to be in a women’s prison.
“We can’t leave. We are locked up with them, no matter what.” …
The cells at Greenock Prison don’t have showers in them, meaning women have to use communal showers.
Rhona Hotchkiss, who was Governor of HMP Greenock until 2019, said: “We had three or four trans women in at once. It was a horrific situation.
“None of them had identified as trans before they came into prison.
“The behaviour was appalling. They were clearly, most of them, there for sexual reasons.”
She added: “Male staff are not allowed to go anywhere near those showers but trans women can.
“I knew of women who wouldn’t shower.” …
The Family Education Trust’s Lucy Marsh told MailOnline: “It is appalling that men who pretend to be women are allowed to be in female prisons.
“The majority of women in prison have been the victim of domestic violence and sexual assault, and more than half experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse as a child.
“To put vulnerable women at further risk of abuse from predatory men is wilfully irresponsible and immoral.”
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Ok but using the ridiculous term “trans women” is completely impartial. Got that. I hope Webb resigns.
They are males, no ifs no buts.
He should not simply accept this and fade into the background. Instead he should double down and dare them to sack him.
Tribunal? FSU?
Given that this is the BBC inverting itself and given that the BBC is a wholly discredited organisation and certainly not worthy of our time I think we can safely ignore yet more of their cretinous stupidity.
I’m on holiday and it’s raining so I thought I would waste some of my time complaining about this article which keeps referring to a man as a woman: Jorge Carreno murder: Scarlet Blake confessed murder to her ex, court hears – BBC News on the grounds that it breaks their impartiality rules. Let’s see what weasel words will come back to me.
Great stuff tof. I look forward to reading the response.
Me too.
Willy = Man
No willy = Woman
BBC needs to cease to exist, we’d all be better off.
Had willy removed = mutilated man
Like the bloke given the whole life tariff for a double murder today did to his male victim.
From now on, I shall assume that when the BBC uses the word “sky” it really means “ground” and visa versa.
The BBC is a place where objective truths have become subjective – even inverted.
There is nothing controversial about the biological differences between man and woman. That the BBC should seek to sow doubt about this most fundamental of matters makes me now certain the BBC is in the grip of Satanists.
One person complained about this. ONE PERSON. The BBC needed merely to acknowledge the complaint, not go all out to uphold it. Desperate times. I was brought up on BBC Radio 4 and in particular I loved their drama. All that changed long ago, and it’s now beyond repair.
They take license fee money from right wing and left wing viewers but only present left wing views. ——–How can they justify that? They can’t actually. So they use tactics like omitting things and getting Joe Bloggs off the street to say what they want to say.
There is nothing controversial about the biological differences between man and woman.
As pointed out in an older comment: Someone who is having controverses with objectively verifiable reality is – by definition – deranged as that’s not something people can have different opinions about. The sun is hot. And someone who claims otherwise is either mentally ill or a swindler.
I rather fear that my old chum Chief Petty Officer Hoare (RN ret’d.) would have found himself at a loss these days:
In a voice like an anchor being dragged up a gravel beach, “Easy to identify a woman, young ‘un – long hair, bumps in the front and dances backwards”.
Ee … it’s more complicated these days.
My friends silly daughter identifies as a hedgehog because she saw one get runover one day. Is calling her a girl a “hate crime”?
She has a death wish?
BBC News yesterday managed to report the death of this ‘trans prisoner’ without referring to him as either ‘him’ or ‘her’, or ‘he’ or ‘she’.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68442073
What a ridiculous amount of cowardly effort to make!
I don’t mind they avoided all pronouns in the text. It was clear in the picture and from the context that he was male.
It’s not a bad strategy to skirt the issue entirely. I know someone trans, serves drinks in my pub. Most definitely doesn’t ‘pass’. I talk to him regularly, we enjoy the same music. I avoid all pronouns when talking to/about him, and I use only the person’s name, even if I must repeat myself. I absolutely won’t talk politics to him. Nor will I ever call him ‘her’
Let’s see … someone correctly stating that men are male is endorsing a viewpoint in a highly controversial area but the opposite statement, namely, wrongly claiming that some men are actually female, isn’t?
How so?
The BBC is immune to criticism. There’s a revolving door between them and Ofcom staff.
The only effective way to protest is to withhold payment. I haven’t paid the telly tax since 2019, nothing serious has happened
Drop the trans junk writing. It is a small minority of people who seem to get the majority of attention. We have had enough.
You shouldn’t have any problems to find enough sand somewhere to bury your head in it.
Just imagine the number of complaints the BBC gets every day that are either ignored or treated with word salad, and yet they choose to investigate this based on just one single complaint from a blue haired loon. So glad I no longer fund the British bullshit corporation.