A notorious transgender sex predator who sexually assaulted female prisoners now says she should never have been put in a women’s jail.
Convicted paedophile and rapist Karen White, who was born a man, molested female inmates in a three-month reign of terror at New Hall women’s prison in West Yorkshire.
White, 57, who still has male genitalia, was moved to a men’s prison and later received a life sentence for a series of sex crimes.
Now, in a four-page letter to a women’s rights campaigner, sent from her cell at Frankland prison in County Durham, 6ft-tall White urges the Government to keep transgender women out of female jails unless they have had surgery.
White says ‘all I could see was fear in the faces’ of female inmates when they arrived at New Hall jail five years ago. ‘They would have seen me as a man in woman’s clothing and a threat to them,’ writes White, who has been described as a ‘towering figure in a blonde wig’.
