I'm not transphobic I just don't like Alex as a person

Female prisoner complains that case has held up her parole applications

- JENNIFER HYLAND

A FEMALE prisoner has claimed she was blocked from applying for parole for four years after being accused of an anti-trans hate campaign against a killer.

Jayney Sutherley stood accused of transphobic verbal abuse towards murderer Alex Stewart, formerly Alan Baker, and child killer lover Nyomi Fee inside HMP Greenock between 2019 and 2023.

However the hate crime case against Sutherley was found not proven, and Sheriff Millar added that referring to a trans person by their "original biological state" was not transphobic.

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail from HMP Polmont, the grandmother said: "I am so glad this case is over. When I left the dock, my legs buckled. I've not stopped crying."

Sutherley's solicitor told Greenock Sheriff Court Stewart only complained four years after the alleged abuse began following the case of rapist Isla Bryson in 2023 which resulted in prison service policies on where trans lags are housed being placed under review.

Hairdresser Sutherley, 51, who killed a man with scissors, has told how she was denied being able to apply for parole due to the case which she believes was a bid by male-born Stewart to stay in a female jail.

She added: "Because of Alex I have lost three years of my life and precious time with my granddaughter.