According to the Daily Record, 36-year-old convicted murderer Sophie Eastwood, formerly known as Daniel, was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 after strangling his cellmate Paul Algie. Eastwood was jailed at the Dumfries Young Offenders Foundation at the age of 18 for dangerous driving and was just one month from the end of his sentence when he was strangled. According to the Daily Record, “Eastwood was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to serve at least 15 years in Glasgow Supreme Court and has now served more than 17 years.” In 2016, Eastwood then claimed to be a woman, not gay, at a psychologist session. Eastwood has been incarcerated in a women’s prison since 2018 and is taking a drug that inhibits testosterone. Ever since he was identified as a woman, Eastwood is now identified as a baby and requires diapers and baby food from prison staff. A source told the Daily Record, “This prisoner has been difficult and manipulative all these years, so she is still behind bars after 17 years. She has decided to ‘move’ from man to woman, something that is becoming more and more usual in prisons these days. “ “But this is obviously something else entirely and the Scottish Prison Service has not established a protocol for dealing with prisoners who decide they are babies,” the source continued. The source added: “Eastwood is a complex and intelligent person, but she is quite demanding on prison resources and enjoys being the center of attention. It is difficult to know if she really feels a natural tendency to be treated like a baby or if she is. “It’s just a kind of attention-seeking. Modern prisons are very much in tune with the human rights and legal implications that they have, so they are being taken into account.” The source added that there are no plans for the Eastwood release at this time. “This detainee has already served his entire sentence, but has not been sent through prison to a place where he can prepare for release. There is currently no intention of putting him in open prison,” the source said. “It has nothing to do with gender issues. It simply refuses to play by the rules or show any tendency or readiness to live in a normal society.” Speaking from Polmont Prison, Eastwood claimed she “would have been released by now if she had remained a man,” according to the Daily Record. “In January 2020, I met all the formal criteria to move to less safe conditions, except to be a biological woman. The penitentiary wanted me to do a psychological assessment, as I had not done since I started living as a woman.” said Eastwood. . “After that, a manager told me that I would have passed the assessment if I was still living as a man.” “I felt this was sexist and transphobic. The SPS implied that as a man I did not pose a danger to the public, but as a woman I did. I do not think there is any evidence to support this,” Eastwood added. Speaking about Algie’s murder in 2004, Eastwood said: “I was 18 years old. To say that I had unresolved issues would be a huge understatement. spend the rest of my life in the hospital with care. I’m sorry and I regret it every day. “
