Transgender woman guilty of two rapes
Fiend Isla Bryson targeted two females while living as a man
A TRANSGENDER female has been convicted of raping two vulnerable women while living as a man.
Isla Bryson was known as Adam Graham when she carried out the violent sex attacks in 2016 and 2019.
The 31-year-old – who claimed to have had gender issues since the age of four – denied the accusations. Bryson was yesterday found guilty of the two rape charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow and was sent to Cornton Vale women’s prison near Stirling, where it is understood there is a specific wing for transgender prisoners.
Bryson has already had a number of rounds of hormone treatment but has yet to undergo full gender reassignment surgery.
She had first appeared in the dock in July 2019 as Adam Graham with a Mike Tyson-style face tattoo. In high court papers dated 2020, the rapist was then referred to as Annie Bryson.
This was around the time Bryson told jurors she first made the decision to “transition” from a man to a woman.
The court heard how Bryson had attacked the first victim at a flat in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, having met her on the Badoo dating site while known as Adam.
This was just after Bryson’s marriage to a woman had ended.
In her evidence, Bryson claimed she had effectively used the 30-year-old for somewhere to stay.
The victim told how she had been “head over heels in love” with Bryson. However, she soon suffered as Bryson went from “caring” to flying into a rage at trivial matters. The rape
occurred on September 16, 2016, after Bryson locked the door and got into bed beside her.
The woman recalled repeatedly stating “no” as a “muscular” Bryson forced himself on her. The ordeal only ended when the victim’s mum turned on a light in the hall.
The second woman was raped at a flat in Drumchapel, Glasgow, on June 27, 2019. Bryson told jurors how she had shared her “sexuality issues” with the 34-year-old having met on social media site Bigo.
The victim recalled feeling “crushed” as the attacker she knew as Bryson forced himself on her.
She stated: “I told him to stop and he did not. He kept going. That is when I closed my eyes and let him do what he wanted to do.”
In her own evidence, Bryson said: “I would never do that. I would never hurt any woman.”
Regarding sex with the second woman, she told jurors: “I did not make the first move. I can assure you.”
Lord Scott deferred sentencing on Bryson until February 28 in Stirling.
The judge told her: “Given what you have been convicted of, a significant custodial sentence is inevitable.”
i told him to stop and he did not... that’s when i closed my eyes 34-year-old victim on her rape ordeal