Nyomi Fee and long-time partner Alexandra Stewart smiled for the picture inside HMP Greenock.
Scotland’s most controversial jail couple posed for a gay Pride celebration behind bars.
Child killer Nyomi Fee and long-time partner Alexandra Stewart – a biological male who murdered a man in 2013 – smiled for the camera inside Darroch Hall at HMP Greenock.
The photo was taken in happier times for the pair, as the Daily Record revealed recently that they have broken off their engagement.
Fee, who is dwarfed by her hulking fiancee in the photo, is said to still be on “good friends” terms with Stewart, who was formerly known as Alan Baker but chose to live as a woman before being jailed for the murder of John Weir, who he met via a gay dating app.
Last month, the Daily Record revealed that Stewart, 38, had been charged with the alleged sexual assault of a female prisoner in the hairdresser at HMP Greenock.
We cannot show Stewart’s face for legal reasons but one former prisoner said: “This photo will speak 1000 words about the reality facing women in jails, who are forced to live alongside men. Alex is not just a man but a very large and strong one at that.”
The source added: “Women are told that these trans prisoners are women and they are told they have to refer to them as women and they have to address them by their women’s name or they will be in trouble over hate crimes. It’s stark raving mad.
“The madness of it all is only compounded by the fact they were celebrating a Pride event. Women prisoners have been gaslit for years, forced to acknowledge the supposedly gay relationship between Nyomi and Alex.
“We know sexuality can be complex but plenty of people were asking how exactly a sexual relationship between a man and a woman could be a gay one.”
The presence of Stewart in a women’s prison has been a thorny issue for years, leading to a focus on the policy of the Scottish Prison Service, which allows people who declare themselves to be trans female to be regarded as such after a risk assessment.
A UK Supreme Court ruling last year backed the contention of the For Women Scotland group, which argued that a woman is defined by biology.
FWS director Susan Smith said the photo of Stewart will be jarring for many, as they believe it clearly displays a large man in a women’s jail.
The group claims the visual impact is similar to another photo of Isla Bryson, who turned up to the High Court in Glasgow wearing tight leggings that clearly revealed his biological gender to be male.
Bryson, born Adam Graham, opted to declare himself a woman after being accused of two rapes, for which he was convicted in 2023, leading to an eight-year jail sentence. The case made world news and a decision to house the rapist in a women’s jail, HMP Stirling, was reversed.
FWS’s Smith said of the Stewart-Fee picture: “This photo shows the reality faced by women inside HMP Greenock and other establishments, where they have been forced to say a man is a woman just because the Scottish Government said that was the case.
“Looking at that picture, it would seem quite obvious that this is a man – and a very large man at that. And when someone like that is around women who often have backgrounds of trauma and abuse, they are going to feel unnerved and frightened.
“That will be compounded if the women are being forced to pretend that this is a woman just like them. We know from previous reports that women were being punished for supposedly misgendering prisoners, and one case featured a woman who was put on trial for not using the right pronouns and names and making comments about somebody being male.
“So not only are these women then going to be intimidated by someone like this, they’re going to be frightened that anything they say out of that upsets them or that they think is out of order will end up with them being punished – it’s quite outrageous.”
Smith said 70 per cent of women in prisons have suffered head trauma and the majority of them are the victims of domestic violence.
She said: “They’re often in prison because of issues around addiction or due to abusive relationships. They deserve to be protected and to be given a proper chance of rehabilitation.
“They can’t just be used for some mad expert social experiment and Scotland should stop this mixing of men and women in jails immediately.”
The Record revealed last month that Stewart was being held in segregation in the female wing of HMP Greenock since being accused of a sexual attack there, which led to their arrest and subsequent charge. A report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.
Scissors killer Jayney Sutherley, 52, was accused last year at Greenock Sheriff Court of waging a transphobic hate campaign against Stewart and “misgendering” him.
The case was found not proven but evidence presented to court included claims that Fee and Stewart had a sexual relationship behind bars. In that case, Sheriff Thomas Millar stated that referring to trans women as men is not transphobia.
In the Supreme Court case last year, three senior judges ruled that when the term “woman” is used in the Equality Act it means a biological woman, and “sex” means biological sex.
The Scottish Government said it respected the ruling but argued it did not override the upholding of protections set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.
There were a total of 19 transgender inmates in Scotland’s jails last June. It is believed only two trans women remain in the female estate. Fee is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of her two-and-a-half year old stepson Liam at his home in Thornton, near Glenrothes, in 2014, as is her then partner Rachel Fee, or Trelfa.
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