A TRANSGENDER rapist who was jailed for two rapes has not acknowledged responsibility for the crimes, it has been revealed.

Isla Bryson was convicted last month of raping two women – one in Clydebank in 2016 and one in Drumchapel in 2019 – and committed the offences while a man known as Adam Graham.

Today, Bryson was sentenced to eight years in prison at the High Court in Edinburgh, with a further three years on licence by Judge Lord Scott.

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During the sentencing hearing, Lord Scott told Bryson: “You see yourself as the victim in this situation. You are not”.

He also said: “In relation to the level of responsibility you accept, the report states that you vehemently deny that you committed either of these offences.

“Without any foundation, you claim to believe that the two victims may know each other and have colluded in their claims.”

Bryson’s lawyer urged the judge to take into consideration that his client was vulnerable in some ways.

A doctor considered that Bryson has a set of neuro-developmental disorders, namely dyslexia and ADHD, and had also suffered from serious adverse childhood experiences.

But Lord Scott said: “The seriousness of these crimes far outweighs considerations arising from your circumstances.

“Your vulnerability is no excuse at all for what you did to these two women. Regardless of your own vulnerability, in a period of just under three years, you raped two women who can both be regarded as vulnerable.

“The similarities in their vulnerability are consistent with the case presented against you by the Crown which was that both crimes occurred as part of a course of criminal conduct systematically pursued by you.

“That course of conduct involved preying on these women because of their vulnerability and raping them in their own homes where they were entitled to feel entirely safe.”

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The judge also revealed that Bryson has three “relatively minor” previous convictions and presents as a high risk of reconviction of sexual offending.

He added: “You are not yet at the stage of accepting what you did or acknowledging responsibility for the serious harm you have inflicted on two vulnerable women.

“That means that the question of risk is a real issue which must be addressed as part of the sentence.”

Bryson, who spoke of identifying as transgender at the age of four but not making the decision to transition until age 29, was handed the extended sentence of 11 years and will be subject to notification requirements indefinitely.