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Nicolle/Kobi Earley, a violent female who identifies as a transgender man, was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh of the murder of a 63 year old woman in 2010. Earley was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 14 years.

Earley – aged 16 at the time – perpetrated the vicious attack on family friend Ann Gray in her own home in Methil, Fife in 2008. Ms Gray died as a result of a head injury after she was knocked to the ground and repeatedly stamped on. The grandmother also suffered a fractured jaw and broken cheekbone along with a fractured bone in her upper neck. At the time, Earley was described as already having a previous conviction for assault and coming from “a particularly troubled background”.

Earley, now 32, has recently been convicted of a violent assault on another prisoner after hurling a dinner plate at the woman and punching her. Sheriff William Wood sentenced Earley to another six months in prison, to be served concurrently. Earley was appearing before Sheriff Wood after the resident sheriff in Stirling, Wyllie Robertson, excused himself as Earley had previously threatened him.

Earley, who began identifying as transgender in prison, is currently housed in in the admissions hall of HMP Stirling and has been repeatedly involved in harassing and intimidating women who have been newly admitted to the new prison to house female offenders in Scotland. In fact, Earley’s parole hearing was cancelled in 2021 because of attacks on prisoners and the latest attack may delay it still further. Earley was also very recently accused of attacking a prison officer, grabbing her hair and punching her, leaving her very shaken.

In 2013 Earley was sentenced to an additional 18 months in prison after sending letters covered in blood and scrawled with swastikas and detailed threats to torture and kill a male solicitor and a female member of the public. In 2016 – while in court accused of another assault – Earley claimed to be was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of flashbacks over the murder of Ann Gray. In the same year, Early earned another conviction for a similar attack on a different prisoner.

In contrast with violent men who transition in prison or while awaiting trial, few of the recent media articles seemed to have any problem referring to Earley as ‘she’ or ‘her’ – contrast this with recent coverage of trans-identified male rapists such as Alex/Lexi Secker or the trans-identified male murderer Scarlet Blake who are consistently referred to with female pronouns in court and media coverage.

Image credit: Edinburgh Live

Media reports

Daily Record https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/female-killer-now-living-man-33734559 archive

Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13883929/thug-killed-grandmother-trans-man-women-prison.html archive

Edinburgh Live https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/one-scotlands-youngest-killers-now-29994996 archive

The Scotsman https://www.scotsman.com/news/murderer-sent-swastika-and-blood-threat-letters-1567616 archive

BBC ‘Teenage girl given life for cigarette row murder’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8530035.stm