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Trans killer locked up with women for six years in Scots prison fears she would not survive men's jail

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A transgender prisoner who has been locked up with women for six years says she fears she would not survive if she is moved to a men’s prison.

Sophie Eastwood – who is serving life for murdering a male cellmate in prison in 2004 when she was still known as Daniel – has been held among female ­prisoners in Cornton Vale since 2017.She believes she would be a target for sexual violence if she returns to the male estate.

The Scottish Prison Service announced a full case review for every transgender person currently in custody in the wake of a public outcry following the case of Isla Bryson, a transgender double rapist who was initially sent to a female jail.

Eastwood, 38, said: “I was threatened by other prisoners in the male estate when I started to transition and the main threat was that I would suffer serious sexual violence.

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