A pre-op male transsexual has been sent to one of Britain's most notorious all-female prisons after robbing a man and attacking three police officers.
Katelyn Findlay, 18, who was born Stuart Kelly, is being held at Cornton Vale prison near Stirling, which in recent years was officially Scotland's most violent jail.
Findlay was sent to the female-only institution because she has been actively living as a woman - but has not physically started the sex change process. Two years ago it was revealed Cornton Vale had more fights and assaults per prisoner than any male jail north of the border.
The teenager, of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, was born male but has been dressing as a woman for at least two years and is hoping to have a sex-change operation. She was sentenced to six months in prison at Airdrie Sheriff Court after already having spent a month at the prison on remand. Her solicitor Robin White told the court she had experienced a 'difficult' time in the jail because she was a transsexual and was desperate not to go back there. But the court refused to the request because of the seriousness of her crime.
She admitted robbing David Aitken of house keys and a mobile phone sim card at an address in Airdrie on April 12. She also admitted resisting arrest and shouting, swearing, spitting at and violently struggling with three police constables on the same date.
A prison source said: 'She is being held at Cornton Vale because she insists she is a woman.
'However she is actually still a man and it has caused quite a stir. 'Staff are having to refer to her as Katelyn and she is being recognized as a female.'
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