A mother-of-four kids says she confessed to a crime she did not commit to avoid returning to a Scottish prison with two trans prisoners charged with murder and sexual assault.
Amanda Benson, 42, from Inverkip, Scotland, was jailed on remand at HMP Greenock along with two trans women – murderer Alex Stewart, 34, and sexual assaulter Laura Miller, 30.
Mrs. Benson said neither of them had undergone gender surgery or taken gender-affirming hormones.
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.
A trans prisoner reportedly began dating a female child murderer at HMP Greenock in 2020.
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Miller was jailed for almost two years in 2022 after he sexually assaulted a woman taking sleeping pills on several occasions in 2017 and even filmed one of the attacks, in which he made sexually offensive comments about her. Had commented.
Although he committed the crime while he was in prison with Mrs. Benson, it was only in 2022 that he was convicted of that crime. In 2018, he was in Greenock prison for a separate undisclosed offence.
Mrs Benson revealed she was so scared of being raped by a killer or a sex pest and getting pregnant that she had a contraceptive coil fitted in a Scottish Government-run prison.
She told MailOnline: “I took a plea and pleaded guilty, even though I didn’t do it. “It’s scary being in there with them so I did anything I could to get out of there.”
“I felt at risk that I could be raped by these people and that I could get pregnant. “They were both quite tall. One was very heavy. He dressed like a man. Another boy tried wearing sparkly jeans.
“No one had any surgery. They simply said that they were women and wanted to live in a women’s prison.
“We can’t go. “We are locked in with them, no matter what.” ,Greenock prison cells do not have showers, meaning women have to use communal showers.
Rhona Hotchkiss, who was a governor of HMP Greenock until 2019, said: “We had three or four trans women at once. It was a terrible situation. “None of them had identified themselves as trans before coming to jail.
“The behavior was appalling. They were clearly there, most of them, for sexual reasons.”
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She added: “Male staff are not allowed anywhere near those showers, but trans women can. “I knew of women who didn’t bathe.” ,
Lucy Marsh, of the Family Education Trust, told MailOnline: “It is appalling that men who pretend to be women are allowed to stay in women’s prisons.
“The majority of women in prison have been victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and more than half have experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse in childhood.
“Deliberately placing vulnerable women at risk of abuse by violent men is irresponsible and immoral.”
