Why is the SNP still fighting for a trans killer to be in a female jail?
In November 2013, the Scottish courts dealt with an “utterly depraved” murder. Eight months earlier, Robert Shankland, a “caring and vulnerable” 46-year-old in poor health, had been lured to a property in the town of Glenrothes, Fife.
There he was subjected to grotesque torture over several hours, including a sexual assault. After a ligature was tied around Shankland’s neck and a plastic bag pulled over his head, his three killers ate ham sandwiches alongside the body.
Among them was Paris Green, 22 at the time, who was born Peter Laing.
Another Paris, eh. Funny how they don’t name themselves Pittsburgh or Detroit or Grimethorpe.
Over three days last week, the case was back in the spotlight in a high-profile legal dispute involving the Scottish government.
But to the dismay of many, the taxpayer-funded KC fielded by ministers was not there to protect the public from Green. Instead, he was fighting the corner of the killer, and at least two other biologically male murderers who identify as women, in defence of what was presented as their inalienable right to be considered to serve their life sentences in female prisons.
Why is it considered any kind of right, alienable or not, for men who are criminals to serve their sentences in female prisons? Why, in particular, is that considered a right for someone who once spent an afternoon torturing someone to death???
Why have so many people lost their god damn minds?
The case has been brought by For Women Scotland, the feminist campaign group, which argues that after its seismic legal victory in the Supreme Court last April, when it established that under UK equalities law, sex is defined by biology, the practice in Scotland of housing biological men in women’s prisons is unlawful
Under Scottish prison rules, violent trans offenders, including murderers, are not automatically considered a risk to women if their victims were men. Only those with “a history of violence against women and girls” are ineligible for placement in the female estate, a situation many see as perverse. After repeated requests to the government to consider their position, the group says it felt compelled to take them to court once again.
What I would like to know is this: why risk it? Why not not risk it? Why is it so important to house violent male criminals with women that the danger to women is a minor side issue? Why not just house violent male criminals with other males instead? Why punish women for the violent crimes of men?
Updating to add, via Mike B: Paris Green is a poison.
Google provides details:
Paris green is a highly toxic, bright emerald-green copper-arsenic compound historically used as a vibrant pigment, insecticide, and rodenticide.
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