A rapist who began figuring out as a girl after the assault and was known as ‘she’ in court docket was yesterday sentenced to 6 and a half years in a males’s jail.
Lexi Secker, 35, wept as a choose mentioned he had ‘regard to how troublesome a jail sentence in a male establishment might be’.
Wiltshire Police confronted criticism final month after refusing to specify the defendant’s organic intercourse, saying ‘the crime was recorded as being dedicated by a male’, however Secker went on trial ‘as a girl’.
Choose Jason Taylor advised Swindon Crown Court docket the assault was perpetrated by a person ‘clearly interested in ladies’ who was targeted on ‘sexual gratification’ after luring an intoxicated lady to a secluded woodland spot in Wiltshire.
Rapist Lexi Secker, 35, who started figuring out as a girl after the assault, has been sentenced to 6 and a half years in a male jail
The choose advised Secker: ‘You now establish as a girl and are interested in males. On the time of this offence, you had been a person.
‘You recognized as a person and also you had been, on the proof, clearly interested in ladies.’
A police assertion in June mentioned that ‘on the time of the offence Secker was residing as a person’ and the crime was ‘recorded as being dedicated by a male’.
A police assertion mentioned that Secker was tried ‘as a girl’ at Swindon Crown Court docket regardless of saying the rapist was ‘residing as a person’ on the time of the offence
However the assertion additionally mentioned Secker went on trial ‘as a girl’ and referred to the rapist as ‘an individual’.
Fiona McAnena, of the charity Intercourse Issues, mentioned on the time: ‘This particular person is a person. Why do not the police say so? Do they assume they need to faux, as a result of he now says he is a girl, though he has dedicated the final word male crime of rape?
‘It is vitally regarding to see the police pandering to the sentiments of trans-identifying males. It doesn’t give confidence that they’re policing with out concern or favour.’
