A transgender inmate at a women’s jail was caught having drunken sex with another prisoner.
The con was allowed to serve a murder sentence at HMP Bronzefield despite still having male private parts.
The 43-year-old killer is said to have got drunk on illegal home brew with a much younger inmate in a cell. They were then discovered having sex.
Panicked bosses at the privately run Surrey prison launched an urgent probe after fellow prisoners reported the consensual sex. Police were not called.
The trans inmate has since been moved 16 miles to HMP Downview, which has its own transgender wing.
A prison source said: “The bosses are trying to keep it hush, hush. But everyone is talking about it. The girl she had sex with has moved to another block, but told people what happened.
“There’s an investigation into how they got alcohol and how it all happened. It’s gone all the way to the governor.
“A lot of women in that prison are troubled and vulnerable. Things like this shouldn’t be happening. This inmate had free rein to move around, mingling with the other women, even though she had her functioning male parts.
"This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that male sexual predators are allowed to declare themselves as female and allowed to transfer to female prisons.”
Sodexo, which runs Bronzefield, describes it as a “forward-thinking women’s prison” accommodating a “diverse population of women”.
The jail opened in 2004 and houses up to 572 women.
Its website adds: “We provide phones in each room, a 17-bed healthcare facility, a care and separation unit and a mother and baby unit for 12 women.”
There was an outcry four years ago over the case of Karen White, who was living as a woman and serving time on remand at New Hall jail, Yorks, when she sexually assaulted two female inmates.
White, born Stephen Wood, had previous for indecent assault, indecent exposure and gross indecency.
Sodexo said: “We do not comment on individuals. We can confirm that we have received a report of inappropriate conduct and have taken the necessary immediate steps.” The Ministry of Justice was approached for comment.
