A man has been charged after transgender double rapist Isla Bryson claimed to have suffered 'abuse' in prison.

Bryson, from Clydebank, was jailed for eight years in February for raping women.

The attacks were carried out in 2016 and 2019 while Bryson, who was born Adam Graham, was living as a man.

Bryson has alleged receiving transphobic abuse, claiming in a letter sent to the Sunday Mail: “I’m not doing too good because of abuse from the staff members, all because I am transgender, and other prisoners too.

“This jail is full of transphobic people. The police are involved because of the abuse to do with my gender. People won’t stop being transphobic.”

Police confirmed that a man has been charged in connection with alleged threatening and abusive behaviour. 

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “Around 11am on Thursday, June 8, 2023, we received a report of a hate crime at HMP Edinburgh.

“A 24-year-old man has been charged in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour. A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.”

Bryson’s case sparked outrage after the rapist was initially kept in an all-female prison, forcing an intervention from the Scottish Government.

The then-first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, told MSPs that “this prisoner will not be incarcerated at Cornton Vale women’s prison”, with Bryson moved to the male prison estate.

Ms Sturgeon made clear at the time that there is “no automatic right for a trans woman convicted of a crime to serve their sentence in a female prison”.

Speaking in February she said that each case is “subject to rigorous individual risk assessment” in which the “safety of other prisoners is paramount”.

Then it was announced that the Scottish Prison Service would be reviewing the management of trans prisoners as part of its gender identity and gender reassignment policy review.

The Scottish Government confirmed in February that until the review and other work is complete, no transgender person in prison who has a history of violence against women will be moved from a male prison to a female prison estate.

In addition, newly convicted or remanded transgender prisoners will initially be placed in a prison in line with their sex at birth, it said.