A thug who killed a grandmother in a row over £5 and a cigarette as a teenage girl is now living as a trans man in a women-only jail.
Nicolle Earley became one of Scotland’s youngest female killers in 2008 when aged 16 she murdered 63-year-old Ann Gray in her home.
Earley, of Methil, Fife, was jailed for life in 2010 and was ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years in prison.
Now it is understood the 32-year-old is living as a trans man named Kobi in Scotland’s women-only jail HMP Stirling where Earley is being kept in the admission hall, the Daily Record reports.
She brutally killed the grandmother after knocking her to the ground and repeatedly stamping on her head in Crosshill, Fife.
Nicolle Earley who killed a grandmother in a row over £5 and cigarettes as teenage girl is now living as a trans man in a women-only jail
it is understood the 32-year-old is living as a trans man named Kobi in Scotland’s women-only jail at HMP Stirling (pictured) where Earley is being kept in the admission hall
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) published its policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody in 2023
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) published its policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody in 2023.
In the document, it states transgender men held in women prisons who have been convicted of ‘any offences that perpetrate violence against a female that results in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to a female’, such as murder, ‘may be kept separate from any other person in prison until SPS has been able to assess their risk and vulnerability’.
A Scottish Prison Service spokesperson said: ‘We don’t comment on individuals.’
Mrs 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.
In 2016, solicitors told Stirling Sheriff Court that memories of what she called ‘this incident’ were harming Earley’s mental health.
The convicted killer was being hauled before the court for sentencing after pleading guilty to hurling a dinner plate at a fellow inmate at women’s jail Cornton Vale, near Stirling, and raining her with punches.
Sheriff William Wood sentenced her to another six months in prison, and though he ordered it to be served concurrently with her present sentence, he warned her that it could delay her eventual freedom.
He said: ‘No doubt it will have an effect on the Parole Board – when they say you’ll be released.’
But Earley’s solicitor Danielle Varela said her release date was presently set at 2025, but before she assaulted fellow prisoner Pauline Sleeman, she was being ‘moved forward’ for a parole hearing in 2021.
Miss Varela explained: ‘She has been told recently, however, that’s on hold while her mental health issues are dealt with.
‘There has been a deterioration since she has been in custody. She has been having flashbacks in relation to this 2008 incident.
‘There has been discussion of PSTD (post traumatic stress disorder) but I’m told there’s no diagnosis made at this stage.’
Earley became one of Scotland’s youngest female killers when aged 16 she murdered 63-year-old Ann Gray in her home in 2008
She added that her client had thrown the ‘regular-sized circular plastic plate’ and followed it up with punches because her fellow inmate had been calling her names.
Meanwhile, Adrian Fraser, prosecuting, said Earley was found punching the inmate on the floor in the dining hall by a pantry officer who hear a commotion.
He pulled her off, and the fellow prisoner suffered a ‘red ear, due to punches’. Earley pleaded guilty to assault.
Earley was given an additional 18-month sentence in 2013 after she sent letters from her cell in Cornton Vale covered in blood and scrawled with swastikas, threatening to kill and cannibalise a local solicitor and send his face to a mask factory, adding that Sheriff Robertson ‘could join him’.
Parts of the letters read: ‘Do you have fears of getting tortured or having your family members taken away? That’s what will happen.
‘Are you a fan of Hannibal? I will rip you apart and eat you.
‘If I wasn’t locked up I would have taken you away in the back of a van and just watched the guys go at you and hear you scream.
‘I will have your ear cut off and your tongue ripped out. You will be taken home in the night and left at your front door.’
She also praised serial killer Charles Manson and called Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik a ‘legend’.
In 2010 Ms Gray’s family labelled Earley’s minimum 14-year prison term ‘a joke’ and said she should have been sent behind bars for at least 30 years.
Speaking outside court at the time after Earley’s sentencing, Ms Gray’s daughter Anne-Marie McLeod told the BBC: ‘Fourteen years, it’s nothing. It’s shocking, it really is.
‘I hope she never gets out. She doesn’t deserve it.
‘There’s no justice today.’
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