Killer who brutally murdered pensioner transitions to become a man in women's prison

Kobi Earley, who was convicted arsenic Nicolle Earley, has been successful tribunal for punching a pistillate situation serviceman astatine HMP Stirling wherever helium has transitioned arsenic antheral portion serving a beingness condemnation for the execution of Ann Gray

A teen who brutally murdered a pensioner successful her location and became 1 of Scotland's youngest killers has since transitioned into a antheral portion successful a women's prison.

Kobi Earley, who was jailed arsenic Nicolle, was 16 erstwhile helium murdered household person Ann Gray astatine her location successful Crosshill, Fife, successful November 2008. He was jailed successful 2010 aft the tribunal heard the grandma was knocked to the crushed and stamped connected pursuing a enactment had breached retired implicit £5 and cigarettes.

Earley, present 32 and an inmate astatine HMP Stirling, has since been convicted of aggregate crimes portion serving his 14-year minimum condemnation pursuing a drawstring of convulsive and erratic behaviour. He has appeared again successful tribunal accused of grabbing a pistillate serviceman by the hairsbreadth and punching her successful the face.

The Scottish Prison Service has faced expanding unit successful caller years implicit trans prisoners who transitioned portion inside, specified arsenic the criminals convicted nether the names Isla Bryson and Tiffany Scott. A root told the Daily Record: "This lawsuit is bonzer due to the fact that we person a precise convulsive pistillate who present identifies arsenic a man.

"The SPS is successful a quandary arsenic to wherever to location him, arsenic determination would beryllium wide risks successful putting specified a idiosyncratic consecutive into the antheral situation estate. The concern present is that Earley is successful the admissions hall, which is precise unusual, and determination person been aggregate instances of him being accused of harassing and intimidating women who person been recently admitted to HMP Stirling.

"Earley was besides precise precocious accused of attacking an serviceman who recovered him successful a restricted country and ordered him to travel out. The serviceman said helium grabbed her hairsbreadth and punched her and near her precise shaken."

The root added: "Earley's lawsuit is precise antithetic to that of Isla Bryson and others who were seen arsenic chancers who sought to amended their jailhouse acquisition by changing gender. Staff person felt helium has genuinely felt himself to beryllium antheral and has been identifying arsenic specified for respective years earlier the latest trans worldly became planetary news. The occupation is that the SPS does not person accommodation that would tick each the boxes for specified a hard prisoner."

Victim Ann Gray suffered a fractured jaw and breached cheekbone on with a fractured bony successful her precocious cervix successful the heinous onslaught astatine her location successful 2008. Earley was owed to be a parole proceeding successful 2021 but that was cancelled aft helium attacked chap prisoners portion inside.

In 2016 - earlier his modulation portion successful tribunal accused of different battle - Earley claimed to beryllium suffering from post-traumatic accent upset arsenic a effect of flashbacks implicit the murder. He was fixed an other six months astatine Stirling Sheriff Court for punching different inmate successful Scotland's lone all-female jail.

In the aforesaid year, Early was besides convicted for a akin onslaught connected a antithetic prisoner. Sheriff William Wood ordered him to service his condemnation concurrently but told Stirling Sheriff Court that the Parole Board could clasp backmost eventual release.

The sheriff added Earley had an "unenviable grounds for crimes of violence. Earley was appearing earlier Sheriff Wood aft the nonmigratory sheriff successful Stirling, Wyllie Robertson, declined to woody with him, aft helium erstwhile threatened him.

In 2013, Earley was fixed an further 18-month condemnation aft she sent letters from her compartment covered successful humor and scrawled with swastikas. He threatened to termination and cannibalise a section solicitor and nonstop his look to a disguise factory, adding that Sheriff Robertson 'could articulation him.'

Parts of the letters read: "Do you person fears of getting tortured oregon having your household members taken away? That's what volition happen. Are you a instrumentality of Hannibal? I volition rip you isolated and devour you."

He besides praised serial slayer Charles Manson and called Norwegian wide murderer Anders Breivik a 'legend.' At his sentencing for execution astatine the High Court successful Edinburgh, Lady Dorrian told the weeping teenager: "Violence is portion of your make-up."

In narration to the astir caller battle allegation, a Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 9am connected Monday, 22 July, 2024, we received a study of a 50-year-old pistillate being assaulted by a 32-year-old captive astatine HMP Stirling, Cornton Road, Stirling. A study volition beryllium sent to the Procurator Fiscal."