Victim’s family are outraged by plan
BY SALLY HIND A KILLER is set to become the first prisoner in Scotland to undergo NHS sex-change surgery.
Paris Green, 26, was sentenced to life in 2013 for the murder of Robert Shankland, 45, who she sexually assaulted and battered to death with two accomplices.
Green, born Peter Laing, will undergo “full gender reassignment” on the taxpayer after being transported from her cell to a hospital in England under constant guard.
From the women’s wing of HMP Edinburgh, Green wrote: “I am having the op, and pretty soon. The letter has went out [sic] to the surgeon asking him to take on my case.”
Robert’s sister, Pauline Bell, 46, slammed the move.
She said: “She should not be getting the operation on the NHS. It’s not lifesaving treatment. She took somebody’s life away and destroyed a family.”
Green and pals Kevin McDonagh and Dean Smith, invited Robert to a party in Green’s flat in Glenrothes, Fife.
The trio then tied him up and tortured him for hours, beating him so badly they left a footprint on his neck. They also sexually assaulted him with a rolling pin.
He died as a result of either suffocation or blunt force injuries.
The attack was described by a judge as “utterly depraved”.
A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: “We cannot discuss individual cases but if a request is made by the NHS for surgery for one of the prisoners they are treating, we would not and could not stand in the way.”