A sex offender who abducted and raped his care worker is demanding to be known as a woman named Claire as he prepares for freedom.
Officers at HMP Edinburgh were stunned when Albert Caballero, 50, bald and reputed to have “a crazed look in his eyes”, demanded lipstick and eye make-up and gave himself the new name. Having served half his sentence, Caballero is eligible to apply to the Parole Board for Scotland to be released back into the community.
Insiders at Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison say Caballero only recently changed his name to Claire and is telling fellow cons he will be transferred to a women’s prison before release. Caballero’s case comes amid a row over new “self-ID” gender recognition laws, passed by the SNP/Green Government and blocked by the UK government, which make it easier for trans people to change their legal sex.
