No transgender prisoner with a history of violence against women will be placed in the women’s prison estate – while an “urgent” review has also been ordered, Scotland’s Justice Secretary has said.

Keith Brown said the rule will include those guilty of sexual violence towards women.

Mr Brown announced the measures on Sunday, after MSPs voiced anger at reports that prisoner Tiffany Scott’s request to move to the women’s estate had been rubber stamped.

Earlier in the week, Isla Bryson was initially sent to the women’s prison at Cornton Vale after being convicted of two rapes – which were carried out when she was a man – before being moved to a men’s prison.

After Bryson’s case was raised at First Minister’s Questions, Nicola Sturgeon said the prison service carried out individual risk assessments in such cases and no “formal direction” had been given by the Scottish Government.

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