I JUST DON’T BELIEVE HIM
The first victim of trans rapist Isla Bryson has said it is “impossible” her attacker is no longer a man.
Bryson – born Adam Graham – raped two women, was arrested as a man and appeared at early court hearings under his birth name.
But the fiend went on to announce he was transgender and identified as female.
The haunted victim said her first thought on hearing the prison news was: “What about all the ladies in there?”
Her mum, who refuses to refer to Bryson with female pronouns, said her daughter thinks it’s “impossible” he’s transgender.
She added: “She can’t believe it’s the same person.”
Bryson was in a relationship with his first victim and lived with her and her mother before the romance ended after he raped her in her own bed in September 2016.
The family suspect he only identified as trans in a bid to dodge tough conditions in a men’s jail.
The victim’s mother stressed: “I have every support for transgender people getting what they want.
“I’m totally equal opportunities and I’d back them to the hilt. But he’s very manipulative and everybody falls for it. It’s an easy way out. I don’t believe a word he says.”
The mum, who cannot be named for legal reasons, added: “When my ddaughter found out he’d been put iin a women’s prison, she said to me, ‘Mum, what about all the ladies lad in there?’ Thank God he’s been be moved.”
The T mum first met Bryson when whe her daughter invited him to their the home in July 2016.
They Th had met on an online dating datin network where Bryson wooed woo her with constant attention.
The Th mum said: “I walked in the ddoor and nearly had a heart attack attac when I saw him sitting on the ccouch with his bald head and big ttattoos on his face. I thought, ‘GanGangland member.’
“I wwas a bit wary but everything seemed seem to be fine. They were talking talki away, laughing and giggling. Then she came in and asked could he sstay with us for a while because he wwas struggling.”
The Th mum said her daughter soon fell “head over heels” for Bryson. But sshe said within weeks Bryson changed chan from a seemingly loving partner into a controlling bully.
The mum recalled: “Every time her phone was ringing, he was over her shoulder asking, ‘What you doing, babe, who’s that? Who you talking to?’
“He’d tell her to tell them to stop phoning and ‘This is just spoiling us.’ She stopped talking to people.
“Then it was, ‘What are you wearing? Don’t wear that to go out’. He just wanted her covered up basically.
“He also started wanting to be everywhere that she went and would stop her talking to people.
“He only wanted her to talk to him. When he left the house, he’d phone her 10 minutes later, saying, ‘What you doing?’ And he’d be on the phone to her non-stop so she didn’t really have much option to talk to anybody else.
“I thought, ‘That’s scary’. I started to tell her I thought something wasn’t right.”
The woman was passing her daughter’s room in September 2016 when she heard her telling Bryson: “No, don’t do that, stop.”
She admits: “I thought they were just having sex. At the time, I thought, ‘How flipping rude is that?’ I was embarrassed at the thought they were having sex through the wall from me, so I went to the living room.”
In court, Bryson claimed the sex was consensual and that he had not known that the mum was at home. He insisted: “If a mother heard her daughter saying, ‘No, no, no’, she would’ve rushed in, not gone in the living room.”
But the mum told us: “He knew I was in because I was in talking to them before they went to bed. And he’s right – I would have barged in if I’d realised what was going on.
“The next morning he was shifty and left, saying he had to go. I knew something wasn’t right but I didn’t know it was rape.”
The mum said of her daughter: “It’s had a big effect on her and has made her quite scared.
“Once he’s sentenced, she’ll finally be able to move on.
“She feels happy now that she knows he’s in jail and she’s safe from him, and so are others.
“He’s a creep. If he was to drop down dead, I’d be happy.”