Sophie Eastwood: Last News

Prison campaigners have welcomed the move of controversial trans prisoner Sophie Eastwood to a male jail.

Prison bosses have dramatically moved one of Scotland’s most controversial trans prisoners to a male jail.

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.

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Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A murderer branded "Hannibal Lecter Junior" claims changing gender has kept her locked up behind bars.Sophie Eastwood, 36, used shoelaces to strangle cell mate Paul Algie, 22, in 2004 in an attack designed to have her sectioned and receive hospital treatment, she says.The killer who entered jail as Daniel Eastwood, completed her 15-year minimum term sentence in 2019 and has spent the last four years as a woman after transitioning.Speaking from Polmont Prison, Eastwood claims she would have been freed by now if she had remained as a man. Her latest bid to be transferred to hospital was an overdose, Daily Record reports.