Scotland's Justice Secretary has refused to intervene to ensure that a transgender woman convicted of raping two women while she was a man is not held in a women’s prison.
Keith Brown was called to the Scottish Parliament today to answer an urgent question on the case of Isla Bryson, who was yesterday found guilty of two counts of rape at the High Court in Glasgow.
It is understood she is being held at Cornton Vale women’s prison in Stirling while awaiting sentence for the crimes, which she committed before she began transitioning to become a woman.
