Hanged transsexual 'murdered by ignorance'
Monday, April 7, 2008
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=136775&in_page_id=34 (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=136775&in_page_id=34)
A transsexual prisoner who was found hanging after being bullied by other inmates wrote that she had been "murdered by ignorance", an inquest heard.
Lisa Woodhall, 28, who became a woman after surgery, was discovered hanging by a shoelace at Eastwood Park women's prison, having confided to a friend that staff had failed to help her.