40 (and more) times of Trans as Mitigation
Considering the frequency a trans identity, gender dysphoria and the vulnerability of trans prisoners is used in defence, I thought I'd cobble together some cases I've found. It's likely this will continue to be added to, as I'm aware of many more.
44) Richard Heatherill
24 years old, sex offences against multiple girls under 16, from sending sexually explicit messages, indecent images and statutory rape.
"He said the offences were committed against a background of psychiatric issues, including gender dysphoria, which had seen Heatherill previously referred to a specialist sexual health clinic.
"The dysphoria had led to him being bullied and withdrawing into his bedroom, where he spent time browsing the internet and developed his “deviant” interests, which he then acted upon with the teenage girls.
"However Mr Crow said Heatherhill had since had help to resolve these issues.
"He added: “Mr Heatherill is apologetic for his actions."
"Sheriff Alistair Brown said a social work report had laid out the nature of Heatherill’s sexual interests.
He said: “I recognise and accept that you struggle, or at least suffer psychiatric issues, as a result of your gender dysphoria and it’s right that the court should be sympathetic of that."
43) 'Abigail' Jamie Kevin Harold Waller
Repeated child sex offences.
"Ellie Fargin, defending, asked the judge to consider how Waller will cope in prison as an inmate who identifies as female. She said: "We ask you to bear in mind the conditions in prison and the issues Ms Waller will face in prison due to her ADHD and autism and because of her gender identity matter which she is awaiting treatment for."
42) Alexandra Charles
Charles felt he had been wronged by plastic surgeon Dr Mayou after surgery to his ears, consequently bombarding him with threats and abuse.
This included threats to Dr Mayou's wife and daughters, calling one of his girls a "pig" and a "slut". In a long (two and a half years) campaign of harassment, Charles threatened to 'cut' the doctor and under numerous pseudonyms took to the internet to accuse him of being a paedophile.
Dr Mayou This escalated into calls to his workplace, where he accused Mayou of being a "kiddie fiddler" and as well as losing patients, his employment at the private clinic he had held for decades became untenable.
"I'll be coming to see you. I want to know what you have done to my ears, you are going to pay for this.
"I'm planning what I am going to do, I'm going to strip everything off you, you fucking bastard, you fucking shit."
"I'm going to see you dog, you fucking cunt. You've deformed me for life."
Trans mitigation:
The defendant told the court: "I am halfway through a sex-change and sending me to a male penitentiary would be sexual abuse." Despite having already skipped bail and left the country, Charles was given a suspended sentence.
Telegraph
Gender Identity Watch
41) Dawn Love
Love was convicted of possessing extreme pornography of women being penetrated by horses and a man having sex with a dog. He claimed the multiple films must have been left by a sexual partner after an episode of dogging where having parked up in a van he gets deliriously drugged, tied up and treated to a veritable smorgasbord of stangers' genitals.
Trans Mitigation:
Defending, James Bloomer said Love was at a high risk of suicide if sent to prison.
"Mr Bloomer revealed his client had suffered from suicidal thoughts much of her life, much of which stemmed from issues around her gender"
Love was spared jail, "after a judge heard of the heightened risk of suicide for transsexuals in custody. Despite having a long list of previous convictions, including two suspended sentences, and the offence crossing the custody threshold, Judge Christopher Critchlow opted not to send her to prison for her own safety." Instead, Love received a suspended sentence.
Later -
Love repeatedly sexually assaulted a 15 yr old girl, offered to pay her to to watch 'Mrs Brown's Boys' along with a long series of text messages proclaiming love or variously inappropriate content such as "I've put some wet wipes by your door for you to wipe your lovely little bum." The victim replied, "Go away", but Love responded "I'm at home" (suggesting it was possible Love was outside her home) before the victim asked: "Why do you keep doing this?"
Trans Mitigation:
"Mr Bloomer revealed his client had suffered from suicidal thoughts much of her life, much of which stemmed from issues around her gender"
Love was spared jail, "after a judge heard of the heightened risk of suicide for transsexuals in custody. Despite having a long list of previous convictions, including two suspended sentences, and the offence crossing the custody threshold, Judge Christopher Critchlow opted not to send her to prison for her own safety." Instead, Love received a suspended sentence.
Later -
Love repeatedly sexually assaulted a 15 yr old girl, offered to pay her to to watch 'Mrs Brown's Boys' along with a long series of text messages proclaiming love or variously inappropriate content such as "I've put some wet wipes by your door for you to wipe your lovely little bum." The victim replied, "Go away", but Love responded "I'm at home" (suggesting it was possible Love was outside her home) before the victim asked: "Why do you keep doing this?"
Trans Mitigation:
Despite having previous for the bestiality films, it was claimed Love had no other sexual offences on his criminal record.
'We are dealing with a 57-year-old disabled woman with no history of this type of offending ... the bullying and depression she is now facing and move to Dorset to start again.'
"However you are someone who's been appearing before the courts for various matters, driving offences, possessing a knife.
Although this crosses the custody threshold, I'm going to impose a suspended sentence.
"You'll know what that is because you've had one before."
Love received a community order with two years of supervision with the Probation Service. Again.
40) Pauline Long
"However you are someone who's been appearing before the courts for various matters, driving offences, possessing a knife.
Although this crosses the custody threshold, I'm going to impose a suspended sentence.
"You'll know what that is because you've had one before."
Love received a community order with two years of supervision with the Probation Service. Again.
40) Pauline Long
Pauline Long, 60. Guilty of several child sex offences including showing extreme pornography to a young child, inappropriately touching an underage child, forcing a child to touch them inappropriately and producing an indecent image of a child.
Both of Long’s victims were aged under 10
Trans Mitigation:
Charlotte Surley said Long struggled with the psychological effects of gender reassignment.
“She is now a much more peaceful individual, with good interpersonal skills.”
Luckily, the judge didn't entirely buy it and Long recieved a jail sentence, albeit a paltry 6 years imprisonment.
Archived link
39) Aiden / Anne Wiltshire
Harassed and stalked two women over a sustained period.
Trans vulnerability perk:
Judge allowed Wiltshire to bring along his pet cat to the trial to calm him down, as well as not requiring him to stand when the judge entered the court.
38) Chloe Walker
Walker has racked up 49 offences including sexual crimes against young children such as sexually assaulting a boy under 13, sexual activity with a girl under 16 and assault.
Walker was referred to as Mr Walker for the first half of proceedings until prosecutors were told to refer to Walker using feminine pronouns. They legally had two names.
Trans Mitigation:
“She is now a much more peaceful individual, with good interpersonal skills.”
Luckily, the judge didn't entirely buy it and Long recieved a jail sentence, albeit a paltry 6 years imprisonment.
Archived link
39) Aiden / Anne Wiltshire
Harassed and stalked two women over a sustained period.
Trans vulnerability perk:
Judge allowed Wiltshire to bring along his pet cat to the trial to calm him down, as well as not requiring him to stand when the judge entered the court.
38) Chloe Walker
Walker has racked up 49 offences including sexual crimes against young children such as sexually assaulting a boy under 13, sexual activity with a girl under 16 and assault.
Walker was referred to as Mr Walker for the first half of proceedings until prosecutors were told to refer to Walker using feminine pronouns. They legally had two names.
Trans Mitigation:
"Ms Stocks described her future gender reassignment surgery as a ‘milestone’ in her transition to be ‘the person she needs to be’.
"In addition to telling the court of Walker’s use of drugs, mental health issues and autism as mitigation, Walker’s lawyer said “She’d been living a socially reclusive life with not many friends, and social media was the only place she could find some company.”
"Judge Rebecca Crane said: 'There have been problems with you making malicious allegations against probation staff and poor compliance.
'They say you're highly likely to re-offend.
'It was traumatic for you because you have been waiting a very long time for an appointment at the gender reassignment clinic.'
Link here and here
37) Tiffany Aching / Lee Baker
Harassed ex partner and bombarded her business with messages online. After a year of stalking, including turning up at night to shine torches at her home and car, the victim got a restraining order. This was swiftly broken.
Trans Mitigation: "Nicholas Tucker, mitigating, said that Aching would be victim of 'merciless bullying' in prison"
36) Mark / Marcia Walker
Walker was first jailed for 13 years for two rapes against girls under the age of 16, one aged just four, 10 counts of making indecent photographs of children, seven of taking indecent photographs of children and two of distributing indecent photographs of children.
Then an additional 6 months for threatening to bomb the home of Theresa May, followed by another threat to bomb the home of the governer, attacking a prison guard and making threats to kill.
Walker was angry prison officers objected to his having razor blades. Walker claimed being unable to shave worsened gender dysphoria and spat at one telling him: "I have Covid."
Walker admitted assault on a prison officer, threatening to kill a prison officer and fellow inmate as well as breaching a sexual harm prevention order by obtaining a National Geographic with images of naked children.
Defence: Fiona Lamb, mitigating, said: "The defendant has had quite an unpleasant experience being in custody. I'm sure no one enjoys it, but because of the defendant's personal circumstances it has been very difficult for her."
"Sentencing Walker, Judge Ray Singh said he had "real concerns" over releasing her into the community, but also 'there were issues over her continued detention within the prison system'"
Saying he was taking "a chance" on Walker he imposed consecutive three-month sentences for all offences, totalling 15 months, suspended for two years, with 30 rehabilitation activity days with the Probation Service.
35) Kira Leverton
"It's a girl thing. I like them ages six and up."
Child abuse imagery. Category A is the most serious, and includes torture and bestiality.
"In addition to telling the court of Walker’s use of drugs, mental health issues and autism as mitigation, Walker’s lawyer said “She’d been living a socially reclusive life with not many friends, and social media was the only place she could find some company.”
"Judge Rebecca Crane said: 'There have been problems with you making malicious allegations against probation staff and poor compliance.
'They say you're highly likely to re-offend.
'It was traumatic for you because you have been waiting a very long time for an appointment at the gender reassignment clinic.'
Link here and here
37) Tiffany Aching / Lee Baker
Harassed ex partner and bombarded her business with messages online. After a year of stalking, including turning up at night to shine torches at her home and car, the victim got a restraining order. This was swiftly broken.
Trans Mitigation: "Nicholas Tucker, mitigating, said that Aching would be victim of 'merciless bullying' in prison"
36) Mark / Marcia Walker
Walker was first jailed for 13 years for two rapes against girls under the age of 16, one aged just four, 10 counts of making indecent photographs of children, seven of taking indecent photographs of children and two of distributing indecent photographs of children.
Then an additional 6 months for threatening to bomb the home of Theresa May, followed by another threat to bomb the home of the governer, attacking a prison guard and making threats to kill.
Walker was angry prison officers objected to his having razor blades. Walker claimed being unable to shave worsened gender dysphoria and spat at one telling him: "I have Covid."
Walker admitted assault on a prison officer, threatening to kill a prison officer and fellow inmate as well as breaching a sexual harm prevention order by obtaining a National Geographic with images of naked children.
Defence: Fiona Lamb, mitigating, said: "The defendant has had quite an unpleasant experience being in custody. I'm sure no one enjoys it, but because of the defendant's personal circumstances it has been very difficult for her."
"Sentencing Walker, Judge Ray Singh said he had "real concerns" over releasing her into the community, but also 'there were issues over her continued detention within the prison system'"
Saying he was taking "a chance" on Walker he imposed consecutive three-month sentences for all offences, totalling 15 months, suspended for two years, with 30 rehabilitation activity days with the Probation Service.
35) Kira Leverton
"It's a girl thing. I like them ages six and up."
Child abuse imagery. Category A is the most serious, and includes torture and bestiality.
Everton was found with:
144 category A stills, 44 movies,
203 category B stills and 13 movies,
153 category C photos and two movies.
Also seven images of extreme pornography, 425 prohibited images of children and one movie.
In a separate trial a few months later, Leverton pleaded guilty to a string of child sex abuse charges including extreme pornography involving horses and inciting a young boy and girl in a country outside the UK to engage in sexual activity.
Leverton had a number of searches including 'pre-teen hardcore', 'incest' and 'paedo' as well as 'infantile' and 'baby'.
Trans Mitigation:
In a separate trial a few months later, Leverton pleaded guilty to a string of child sex abuse charges including extreme pornography involving horses and inciting a young boy and girl in a country outside the UK to engage in sexual activity.
Leverton had a number of searches including 'pre-teen hardcore', 'incest' and 'paedo' as well as 'infantile' and 'baby'.
Trans Mitigation:
Patrick Mason said Leverton's circumstances were 'unusual', having been born a man but now legally recognised as female.
"This happened during an emotionally stressful time in her life."
"If she is sentenced to imprisonment you can imagine the problems that could cause. Prison is not geared up to cope with people in her position."
"It would damage her emotional well-being."
Punishment: Two year community order, 40 days rehabilitation activities. A sexual harm probation order and made to sign the sexual offenders register for five years.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/woman-accused-child-sex-abuse-79552
34) Norman McKeown
McKeown, 54, was passed out drunk in A&E when he was woken by a doctor amid concerns he was about to fall out of a treatment chair and hit his head on the floor.
On being woken McKeown was verbally abusive and struck the victim a number of times.
TransMitigation:
"This happened during an emotionally stressful time in her life."
"If she is sentenced to imprisonment you can imagine the problems that could cause. Prison is not geared up to cope with people in her position."
"It would damage her emotional well-being."
Punishment: Two year community order, 40 days rehabilitation activities. A sexual harm probation order and made to sign the sexual offenders register for five years.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/woman-accused-child-sex-abuse-79552
34) Norman McKeown
McKeown, 54, was passed out drunk in A&E when he was woken by a doctor amid concerns he was about to fall out of a treatment chair and hit his head on the floor.
On being woken McKeown was verbally abusive and struck the victim a number of times.
TransMitigation:
Lawyer Pearse MacDermott told the court McKeown struggles with drink and mental health problems and was previously referred to a counselling service but was unable to complete the programme because he is a cross-dresser.
"A violent criminal who stabbed a man in the liver is to be sent to an all-women's prison after a court heard she intends to undergo gender reassignment treatment. The defendant was referred to as a woman 'undergoing gender reassignment' during the hearing and will serve the sentence at Styal women's prison.
Mottershead had served previous stretches in all-male prisons for offences including robbery, wounding and possession of an offensive weapons."
Judge: 'You are also undergoing gender re-assignment and I understand this will create difficulty for you while in custody. You have been in prison in the past but not whilst undergoing this procedure. But, I am of the view that this crime is serious and I can only give you immediate custody.'
32) Callum / Sheridan Hughes
Callum / 'Sheridan' Hughes beat up his mother having shown increasingly aggressive and intimidating behaviour towards her.
One night Hughes began to call her names, telling her to “shut the f*** up” and she deserved a slap.
Afraid he might attack her, his mother left.
But when she returned, 33-year-old Hughes (STILL living at home) 'was still aggressive and pushed her, striking her to the head. She ran to the bedroom and locked herself in but Hughes kicked the door in and continued to verbally abuse her.
When his dad returned, Hughes told him he had “battered mum” and threw a boot at him, striking him on the head. Hughes then ran outside and punched and kicked a man visiting a neighbour who had called the police.
When Hughes’ mum came downstairs to help her husband, Hughes held her by the hair. Police who arrived at the family home found clumps of her ripped out hair in the hallway.
Trans Mitigation:
Afraid he might attack her, his mother left.
But when she returned, 33-year-old Hughes (STILL living at home) 'was still aggressive and pushed her, striking her to the head. She ran to the bedroom and locked herself in but Hughes kicked the door in and continued to verbally abuse her.
When his dad returned, Hughes told him he had “battered mum” and threw a boot at him, striking him on the head. Hughes then ran outside and punched and kicked a man visiting a neighbour who had called the police.
When Hughes’ mum came downstairs to help her husband, Hughes held her by the hair. Police who arrived at the family home found clumps of her ripped out hair in the hallway.
Trans Mitigation:
Mold crown court heard that “the issue of gender identification is at the forefront of his mind”, his defence barrister Henry Hills told the court.
He had previously assaulted his mother, and a police officer who attended, and had been placed on a community order of which he was in breach.
31) Lottie / Lucien Harris
He had previously assaulted his mother, and a police officer who attended, and had been placed on a community order of which he was in breach.
31) Lottie / Lucien Harris
"Between September 2016 and July 2017, he made nearly two dozen false allegations against Malik"
Harris "made life ‘hell’ for Ali Malik, who was arrested twice as a result of the fake rape and sexual assault allegations. Harris even claimed Mr Malik shoved his penis inside the letterbox of his front door.
He also made two rape allegations in September and October 2016 and told police Mr Malik held a knife to his face and threatened to slit his throat"
Defence: "It’s clear that Mr Harris is not a young person actuated by malice, but one who is struggling with identity"
https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/27/trans-waiter-spared-jail-lying-raped-gay-co-worker-7420269/
30) Paris Bregazzi
Bregazzi has 40 convictions for assault, harassment and shoplifting dating back to 2007, including attacks on staff and commuters at Highgate Station, East Finchley Station and Kings Cross Station.
Bregazzi has violently assaulted his own grandmother and pushed a police officer onto the train tracks of the London underground.
Trans Mitigation: Barrister Mustapha Hakme said Bregazzi is "one surgery away from fully transitioning to a woman" and said her mental health issues had been “exacerbated” by her being transgender.
From the CCTV, the judge concluded, it was "clear" that Bregazzi "reacted spontaneously" and "did not seem to form a malign intent". Bregazzi received a suspended sentence of 6 months
Judge Jeremy Dein, QC, released him on bail as he was “concerned” that she has been held in custody “in very difficult circumstances”.
He did not “feel comfortable with imposing an immediate sentence of imprisonment”
29) Jasmine Hill
Guilty of inciting a child to perform sexual acts, breaching a sexual harm prevention order and possessing indecent images of a child. Had already been convicted of similar offences. https://uk-database.net/2017/02/06/jasmine-hill-cornwall/
Hill then lied that he had been raped, once in the community and once by a fellow inmate.
The first demonstrably false claim was in 2015, the second a year later. "Hill gave detailed descriptions to the police, including of how she was raped in her cell at the men’s prison. The prosecutor said both the victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were each arrested by police, questioned and intimately examined"
"In both cases CCTV footage proved that neither men could have raped Hill"
"Hill is currently serving a four and a half year jail term after she admitted pretending to be a teenage girl on Facebook to target underage boys. She then groomed them to send her explicit sexual images of themselves"
Defence: ‘It wasn’t planned, in that initial investigations by the police showed how the stories unravelled.’
"He said it was only recently that Hill, who has been in custody since 2016, was now being held in a special wing of a prison on the Isle of Wight with other transgender prisoners"
“Prison is a difficult environment when you are in a position where you are transgender pre-op,” he added.
Judge Simon Carr said: “I accept the very real challenges you faced in your childhood and the very serio4⁴3ŕŕr⁴us challenges you have today, which for many would be met with sympathy.”
Link. Archive
28) Alexandra McRea
1997- "Lawyer Alexandra MacRae, 57, formerly a rugby prop forward called Stephen, was sentenced to 15 months at Dundee Sheriff Court for embezzlement"
McRea was the first transwoman to be sent to a women's prison in the UK.
"Former Scottish National Party candidate McRae had failed to repay £16,000 embezzled from a client"
Vulnerability defence:
"Sheriff Brian Scoullar had already given McRae two years to raise the cash, because he believed she faced physical danger in prison" Further link here
2001 -
McRea was once again in court, this time for stealing £100,000 from an elderly couple.
Defence: "Referring to her last prison sentence, Mr Boag-Thomson added: ''In the personal circumstances of Miss MacRae, that proved to be a somewhat traumatic experience for her.
''Given her background, any prison sentence could be a very difficult time for her.''"
Trans Mitigation: Barrister Mustapha Hakme said Bregazzi is "one surgery away from fully transitioning to a woman" and said her mental health issues had been “exacerbated” by her being transgender.
From the CCTV, the judge concluded, it was "clear" that Bregazzi "reacted spontaneously" and "did not seem to form a malign intent". Bregazzi received a suspended sentence of 6 months
Judge Jeremy Dein, QC, released him on bail as he was “concerned” that she has been held in custody “in very difficult circumstances”.
He did not “feel comfortable with imposing an immediate sentence of imprisonment”
29) Jasmine Hill
Guilty of inciting a child to perform sexual acts, breaching a sexual harm prevention order and possessing indecent images of a child. Had already been convicted of similar offences. https://uk-database.net/2017/02/06/jasmine-hill-cornwall/
Hill then lied that he had been raped, once in the community and once by a fellow inmate.
The first demonstrably false claim was in 2015, the second a year later. "Hill gave detailed descriptions to the police, including of how she was raped in her cell at the men’s prison. The prosecutor said both the victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were each arrested by police, questioned and intimately examined"
"In both cases CCTV footage proved that neither men could have raped Hill"
"Hill is currently serving a four and a half year jail term after she admitted pretending to be a teenage girl on Facebook to target underage boys. She then groomed them to send her explicit sexual images of themselves"
Defence: ‘It wasn’t planned, in that initial investigations by the police showed how the stories unravelled.’
"He said it was only recently that Hill, who has been in custody since 2016, was now being held in a special wing of a prison on the Isle of Wight with other transgender prisoners"
“Prison is a difficult environment when you are in a position where you are transgender pre-op,” he added.
Judge Simon Carr said: “I accept the very real challenges you faced in your childhood and the very serio4⁴3ŕŕr⁴us challenges you have today, which for many would be met with sympathy.”
Link. Archive
28) Alexandra McRea
1997- "Lawyer Alexandra MacRae, 57, formerly a rugby prop forward called Stephen, was sentenced to 15 months at Dundee Sheriff Court for embezzlement"
McRea was the first transwoman to be sent to a women's prison in the UK.
"Former Scottish National Party candidate McRae had failed to repay £16,000 embezzled from a client"
Vulnerability defence:
"Sheriff Brian Scoullar had already given McRae two years to raise the cash, because he believed she faced physical danger in prison" Further link here
2001 -
McRea was once again in court, this time for stealing £100,000 from an elderly couple.
Defence: "Referring to her last prison sentence, Mr Boag-Thomson added: ''In the personal circumstances of Miss MacRae, that proved to be a somewhat traumatic experience for her.
''Given her background, any prison sentence could be a very difficult time for her.''"
27) Christopher Worton / Zoe Lynes
In 2014 he pleaded guilty to five counts of rape against a child age between 13 and 15.
After release, Worton / Lynes broke an order received upon release that banned contact with certain addresses likely to be occupied by children. Under the guise of checking on a friend, Worton/ Lynes waved at the children in the house and tried to initiate conversation with them. He knew children were there.
Defence: "Aggrey said the defendant had experienced isolation as a result of her gender transition."
Lynes was told to pay a £93 fine, a £30 victim surcharge and £135 in court costs
26) Denen Anderson
"A teenage girl who downloaded a toddler rape video and researched murdering babies has been allowed to walk free from court"
"Dundee Sheriff Court heard how Anderson was found with horrifying material on her phone including footage of a child aged around two years old being raped."
As you can guess, 'Denen' is not a girl.
"The teenager admitted downloading the video and a number of graphic still images"
“They found deleted notes on ‘kid killers, toddler torture, baby torture, baby abuse, toddler murder, baby killer, child abusers, baby rape, kid rape, toddler rape, suffering, animal abuse.’
"Anderson, who was born male and has been transitioning to become female, failed to appear and the case was continued for two months to get a psychological report.
Mitigation: Sheriff Alistair Carmichael told him: “You pled guilty to a serious matter here. It is something which would often require a custodial sentence"
“I have to look at whether other options are available and in this case there are.
“I will impose a Community Payback Order because of the exceptional circumstances involving mental health and various other reasons.”
"Denen Steven Anderson has been banned from having any contact with children under the age of 18 and prohibited from using social network sites and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for two years"
25) Andrew Houston
A former theatre director covertly filmed women over the course of several years because "he wanted ideas for his secret hobby of cross-dressing".
Defence: ‘the position is rather more nuanced than was perhaps perceived at first blush’. ‘His behaviour is inextricably linked to gender identity issues of which he has been aware for decades.
Part of his exploration of gender identity issues has involved in him engaging in what is known in common parlance as cross-dressing. That is an activity in which he has engaged for a number of years"
24) Tristan Bell-Willows
Guilty of arson in 2006, and possession of an offensive weapon in 2007. Blackmailed former partner with threats of reporting him for rape. Vandalised his business, malicious rumours
Sympathy: "Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, said Bell-Willows "endured gender dysphoria” since her teenage years"
"The teenager admitted downloading the video and a number of graphic still images"
“They found deleted notes on ‘kid killers, toddler torture, baby torture, baby abuse, toddler murder, baby killer, child abusers, baby rape, kid rape, toddler rape, suffering, animal abuse.’
"Anderson, who was born male and has been transitioning to become female, failed to appear and the case was continued for two months to get a psychological report.
Mitigation: Sheriff Alistair Carmichael told him: “You pled guilty to a serious matter here. It is something which would often require a custodial sentence"
“I have to look at whether other options are available and in this case there are.
“I will impose a Community Payback Order because of the exceptional circumstances involving mental health and various other reasons.”
"Denen Steven Anderson has been banned from having any contact with children under the age of 18 and prohibited from using social network sites and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for two years"
25) Andrew Houston
A former theatre director covertly filmed women over the course of several years because "he wanted ideas for his secret hobby of cross-dressing".
Defence: ‘the position is rather more nuanced than was perhaps perceived at first blush’. ‘His behaviour is inextricably linked to gender identity issues of which he has been aware for decades.
Part of his exploration of gender identity issues has involved in him engaging in what is known in common parlance as cross-dressing. That is an activity in which he has engaged for a number of years"
24) Tristan Bell-Willows
Guilty of arson in 2006, and possession of an offensive weapon in 2007. Blackmailed former partner with threats of reporting him for rape. Vandalised his business, malicious rumours
Sympathy: "Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, said Bell-Willows "endured gender dysphoria” since her teenage years"
23) Mark Woodley
Mark Woodley from Middleton, Great Linford, admitted his vile crimes to police after telling hospital staff his “gender dysphoria” had turned him into a paedophile.
Mark Woodley from Middleton, Great Linford, admitted his vile crimes to police after telling hospital staff his “gender dysphoria” had turned him into a paedophile.
97 of the most serious category of indecent child images, 74 of the second and a staggering 1,906 belonging in the third category.
Judge Francis Sheridan described the “filthy” images to the court, saying they included a baby girl suffering horrific rapes and caused “immense” psychological harm to children.
Defence: Daren Samat, defending, said: “The backdrop to this offending is rooted in his gender dysphoria.
“He had an issue with his gender identity from a very young age of three years which he has tried to suppress.
“He has been suicidal because of his position and having to effectively come out to those around him.”
“Having looked at the images he then goes to fantasise whether he would like to be a young female child and that is the gist of it.”
The lawyer then urged the judge to give Woodley a suspended sentence.
“He would be exceptionally vulnerable if he were imprisoned immediately,” he said.
22) Leila Le Fey
Has a long rap sheet of various offences. Went into a shop to steal wine, when challenged by a security guard threatened him with a claw hammer.
Sympathetic Judge: Le Fey was sentenced to six months in prison, "but this order was reversed when Judge Stephen Mooney heard that she did not have certified evidence of her gender reassignment and would have to be sent to a male-only jail. Judge Mooney said ‘issues had arisen’ and that ‘we live in a society which acknowledges and embraces diversity and allows and encourages people to live the life they want to’.
He continued: ‘Sometimes society does not make the necessary or appropriate adjustments in all ways it can to reflect the adjustments of society as a whole. “Having reflected again upon the impact an immediate custodial sentence would have, the difficulties there are and the intractable problems the prison service would face, I have reconsidered whether imprisonment must be immediate.’
21) Amy Gray
Gray framed their ex-boyfriend and his new lover as paedophiles. He and Gray are registered sex offenders.
Grey set him up over Facebook with paedophile hunters.
"Gray has three previous convictions of sexual assault in 2005 when she was living as a man. She transitioned into a woman a year later"
Defence: Hobson, mitigating, said Gray would struggle in prison as a transgender woman.
20) Paul / Keira Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was first imprisoned for the attack on a lone woman, walking her dog. He beat, restrained and raped her. Fitzgerald then was found with diaries where he wrote about loving rape.
On a sex offenders wing after 'transition' Fitzgerald decided to kill other inmates. The furst was 'Britain's worst paedophile' Richard Huckle. Huckle was tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered.
Defence: Initially Fitzgerald had denied murder and said his medical conditions, including mixed personality disorder, psychopathy and gender identity disorder, had impaired his ability to exercise self-control.
19) Alex Burren
Burren / Smith, 28, was initially convicted 16 years previously (ie at age 12) of the rape of a five year old boy. This was the fifth time Burren/Smith, 28, has been convicted of breaching an SHPO, part of a disturbing and repeated pattern of concealing and lying about possessing electronic devices used to download indecent images of children and contacting children online. Police had visited Burren/Smith’s home unannounced in March 2021 and discovered an undeclared device connected to the router. On discovery, Burren/Smith, picked up a pair of scissors, walked towards the police officer and said “I’m going to kill myself”
Sympathy: Passing sentence, Recorder Ian Lawrie QC said: "You are clearly a deeply troubled, deeply complex and fractured individual."
He said any jail term would not give him the help he needed and he would impose a suspended which would leave at large any jail term he could impose if he failed.
"I hope this order will give you the necessary hope you have not had in any constructive form before today," he said
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18) Anthony Scales
"A pervert from Derby accessed the internet via the user name “I’m a paedophile 123” to look at girls as young as eight being violently abused. Search terms included ‘Lolita’ and ‘pre-teen’.
“In total there were 82 category A (the most serious), 145 of category B and 1,381of category C.
“Girls on the images were typically aged between eight and 10.”
Derby Crown Court heard how police found sick child abuse images when they seized and examined electronic devices.
Defence: The defendant’s team claimed the motivation to embark in this disgusting behaviour was gender dysphoria – Scales now identifies as a woman.
Chris Hallas, mitigating, said his client had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity when she appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court .
He said: “She has suffered gender dysphoria all her life and this was the defendant’s initial motivation to embark on this.
“He is a 64-year-old man who now presents as a woman.”
As well as the suspended sentence, Judge Shant placed Scales on the sex offender register for 10 years and handed her a 10-year sexual harm prevention order
17) Sarbeet Jagdev
A pervert who stockpiled abuse images and videos of children as young as two has had his sentence cut after judges heard he was going through a "gender identity crisis" at the time.
London's Criminal Appeal Court was told it was Sarbjeet Jagdev's confusion over his sexuality the led him to view and store 1,400 sexual images of very young girls.
16) Graham / Gillian Newley
Possession of 14,000 child sexual abuse images.
Defence: His lawyer said Newley “wanted to “know what it would be like to be a female child as she missed out”"
They also argued the 52-year-old “had got to the point of pre-operative assessment for full transgender surgery to change her from a male to a female”.
Judge Jeremy Gold QC told Newley: "I am prepared in the special circumstances of this case to deal with you in a rather lenient way.
"I have some sympathy with the situation in which you find yourself and your confusion over your sexual identity and sexual matters generally"
10 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months.
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15) Jessica Ann Smith
Found by a team of paedophile hunters after trying to meet a child for the purposes of sex. Sexually explicit photographs had been
sent to the 'child'.
Defence:
court was told Smith was a vulnerable person dealing with a lot of psychological issues. She was currently going through the process of gender reassignment and was terrified of going to a male prison.
Miss Caighli Taylor, defending, said Smith was depressed and isolated at the time because of her complex gender identity issues and a sense of loss after family bereavements.
"The judge told her: ”A psychiatric report is of the opinion that your long-standing gender dysphoria and issues of sexual identity contributed to your anxiety and depression but no evidence of severe depression or psychotic disorder."
https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/paedophile-sentenced-following-sting-operation-7920000
14) Roger Spackman
"A paedophile Labour councillor who worked in a children's home has walked free despite being caught with over one million child porn images - including of 12-year-old girls being raped"
Roger Spackman, 50, was a Labour councillor on Exeter City Council until his arrest, working at a secure children's home at the time he started collecting the enormous hoard of images.
There were also text chats and images of young girls which had been altered by adding male genitalia so as to make it look as if they were engaging in sexual acts. The images were of girls aged as young as seven, with most being of those who appeared to be pre-teens. There were searches for terms including Lolita, under-age, and kids' bras.
Defence: Spackman's barrister Barry White said: 'He likes to pretend he is a young girl who will be abused. He will pretend to be a young girl.'
13) Toni Prince
"Prince of Infirmary Road, Upperthorpe, downloaded 1,191 indecent images of children, including children being raped.
"She also downloaded 53 images of ‘extreme pornography’ and 337 prohibited images of children
"Police found an ‘extremely unsettling' handwritten table in her bedside drawer, which contained words ‘rape’ and ‘torture'"
Prince has previous for making indecent images of children, possessing prohibited images of children, and possessing extreme pornography.
Prince hasn't even legally changed his name.
Mitigation; Delay in coming to court and gender dysphoria.
Judge Peter QC described it as a 'very serious case’ and voiced his concerns over the delay
“When there has been, as there clearly has been here, an unjust delay which is not in any way, shape or form your fault, I’m bound by the law to take it into account, and I do so,” he told the defendant.
He sentenced Prince to six months imprisonment, suspended for one year.
12) Rachel Smith
"A woman banned from communicating with children after being caught with indecent images had forbidden Instagram chats with a 14-year-old girl.
Rachel Smith was subject to a sexual harm prevention order imposed in 2018 as part of her punishment for having child abuse images.
The court heard Smith has a conviction for indecent assault from 1994 among 50 previous convictions."
Sympathetic Judge: The judge added that she would be "vulnerable and easily exploited" if sent to prison.
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11) Annabelle Ford
"A woman who was changing her gender from that of a man viciously attacked a friend who insulted her new identity in "less than complimentary terms". She attacked him with a metal bar and left him suffering a broken elbow and a broken arm, a court heard.
Ford, 41, of High Street, Dragonby, Scunthorpe, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man and producing cannabis"
Defence: David Godfrey, mitigating, said Ford was "going through a seismic transition in her life" and had started the "process of formally reassigning her gender". "She took the brave decision in her 30s to face off this issue head on," said Mr Godfrey. "She is in the process of living as a woman. She has changed her name and is awaiting the treatment that will follow in the next 12 to 18 months. She has not had transgender rleassignment treatment. All that is to come." Ford had "changed from a man to a woman" but was "struggling with the whole concept of gender reassignment".
10) Zoe Watts
Watts fancies themselves as a survivalist abd has a YouTube channel where they make Degenderettes themed baseball bats covered with barbed wire and broken glass (all in the trans flag colours.
Watts had offensive weapons intercepted by customs, and was found to have an improvised explosive device in their home. Is referred to with new name throughout, no mention of trans identity
Defence: Nick Fooks, defending Watts said: “She is a woman of previous good character.
“This defendant has already served somewhere in the region of eight months in custody.”
9) Jade Clowting
Clowting and another transwoman attacked a drag queen. Charges of sexual assault were dropped..
Sympathetic Judge: Judge Horton told the defendant he had found her actions on the night in question to be "serious" and said the level of violence towards the complainant could have led to someone being seriously hurt. He said: "You should be and can become a credit to society for what you've been through, you're someone capable of helping others go through what you have gone through."
However he did find to have been a reaction to having had too much alcohol which she was not used to drinking.
He also acknowledged the difficulties Clowting had faced as a trans woman and believed her anger was partly a symptom of being the victim of transphobia for many years.
8) Anna McKone
Admitted having 147 indecent pictures and movies of children and of possessing more than 1,000 “pseudo” images of youngsters.
A cleaning programme to delete images was found on one of the devices and the tablet had been used to search websites using terms such as "I'm a goddam paedophile".
Defence: Mr Sastry said, in a police interview, McKone made no comment but provided a statement.
"She accepted responsibility for the indecent images, provided an explanation as to why she may have been involved in that and set out some remorse," he said.
Sympathy: Honorary Recorder of Bolton, Judge Martin Walsh said that reports about McKone had described her "difficult and complex background" and that the public could best be protected by her being supervised in the community for a lengthy period. https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/bolton/19050397.woman-paedophile-distributed-indecent-pictures-children/
7) Ian Rear
Controlling prostitution. "Rear, 50, provided massages with ‘extras’ - often as striking alter-ego Janine - and managed a ‘number of’ girls at his premises at Reddish Road, Reddish"
He took a cut of 30 to 50 per cent from the other sex workers until a police raid.
Defence: Rear’s foray into the sex industry began as a result of this ‘grooming’ while he ‘struggled with his own sexuality and gender issues’.
6) Alice Smith
"A judge has criticised the lack of treatment programmes for women who download child porn after learning there were only courses set up for men.
1,200 indecent images of children on a computer
Laura Austin, for Smith, said the indecent images were downloaded over a five-month period.
She said Smith lived in a rural area where there was not a very good understanding of identity and transgender matters which had resulted in her feeling excluded from the local community.
5) Geoffrey Cowell
A cross-dressing flasher has admitted exposing his female underwear to young girls.
But pensioner Geoffrey Cowell’s behaviour was “more odd than sinister”, a court was told today.
The 67-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
Two charges of outraging public decency were withdrawn.
On May 27, Cowell approached two eight-year-old girls playing rounders at a Thornaby school and asked them if they were having fun and what were they doing.
The girls ignored him and he lifted up his skirt exposing the female pants he was wearing to them.The following afternoon, Cowell was near Burger King, in Chandlers Wharf, central Stockton , when a man saw him lift a grey cord skirt and show female underwear to young girls.“He is a cross-dresser,” she said, “and he would like a sex change and that’s why he dresses the way he does”.
4) Ella Davies
Extreme child sexual abuse imagery, including a photograph of a naked girl of about three reaching out for help in obvious distress and the word ‘Rape’ written on her body.
Another showed a girl of about two being raped by an adult male, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Defence: Barry White, defending, said Davies was suffering from severe psychiatric problems arising from her gender dysphoria, and was sectioned in 2017.
"He said she was "disgusted by her behaviour"."
Judge conceded: “I accept your experience of custody may be more challenging for you than for others, for obvious reasons.”
3) Seren Jorven
"Jorven Seren, who is said to believe she is a five-year-old girl, was born a man but asked to be addressed as a woman. The court heard she was arrested after being seen kissing a child outside a cafe in Thanet. And when police went to Seren’s home in Grotto Hill in Margate they discovered that on her mobile phone were more than 460 disgusting images of child sex."
Defence: Mr Hogben told the judge: “I am sure looking at this defendant and the offences which she has admitted there is a great deal of concern.
“There are no mental health issues but there are personality disorders. Miss Seren was born a man but since an early age felt she is more a woman than a man.”
"The court heard how Seren thinks she is a five-year-old girl and is regarded as “highly vulnerable”.
Judge Williams told him: “I know it will be difficult for you to serve a custodial sentence but I have a duty to protect the public and especially young children.”
Judge Williams told him: “I know it will be difficult for you to serve a custodial sentence but I have a duty to protect the public and especially young children.”
2) April Welsh
Welsh is a 37 year old heterosexual father of two who has previously courted the media on the fascinating triumph of his cross dressing in the clothes of his female relatives, how oestrogen almost killed him and the mysterious 'constant urge to be myself' after hiding his female self. God knows.
Anyway, lovely April is also a repeat wife-beater, and in January 2020 he managed to end one relationship by throttling, kicking and punching one woman, find another partner to move in with and after waking her up at 2:15am drunk, rushing into her as she opened the door, also throttling her, pushing her to the floor and punching her.
Welsh had an excellent defence, however - prison would be super scary for him, he would be vulnerable and 'the injuries weren't that bad'
He got 21 weeks, suspended for 12 months.
And one more from the states,whichImay add to at some point;
1) Taylor Parker-Dipeppe:
"A Judge Let A Transgender Former Neo-Nazi Off Without Prison Time Because He Had Endured “Enough” Suffering"
Atomwaffen Division, a white supremacist group, were compromised of four people, including transman Parker-Dipeppe.
Between them they cyberstalked numerous journalists, mostly Jewish or black. The Anti Defamation League were targeted.
They posted letters and plastered posters of swastikas, leaving messages like “You have been visited by your local Nazis,” “Your Actions have Consequences,” and “We are Watching.”
Plea for pity: “None of us have suffered the difficult situation this defendant has endured as a result of his gender identity confusion,”
