Transgender child rapist kept in isolation at men’s jail as ‘too dangerous’ for women’s prison
A TRANSGENDER child rapist is being kept segregated at a men’s jail — because she is too dangerous for a women’s nick.
Prison chiefs have decided that paedophile Marcia Walker, 48, would pose a risk if she were switched from top security Frankland jail.
Lags at the Co Durham prison are “furious” as they have to be kept in cells for 45 minutes while Walker washes and eats alone.
Walker — once Mark Walker — was jailed for 13 years in 2003 for raping two girls, one aged four, and has served time for bomb hoaxes and assault.
A source said: “There is a lot of anger at the jail but it’s a Catch-22 situation.
“She has to be treated as a woman but cannot be moved to a female prison because she poses a risk.
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“And, as she’s legally a woman, she must be kept apart from male inmates.”
Ministry of Justice sources say more than 90 per cent of transgender cons are held in men’s prisons.
The Prison Service said: “Transgender prisoners do not receive special treatment and have access to the same facilities as male prisoners.”
