🐱 Transgender child abuser attempted to take her own life in prison

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Transgender child abuser attempted to take her own life in prison

Nicola Cope was serving a sentence for a sexual offence with a child
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A convicted sex offender was found unconscious in a bathroom at HMP Foston Hall women's prison after attempting to take her own life, an inquest into her death has been told.

On the opening day of the hearing, the jury heard evidence that Nicola Ann Cope, 59, was rushed to hospital nearly 50 minutes after being found in the bathroom of her cell, back in November 2016.


Miss Cope, who was born in Birmingham as Gordon Cope, changed her gender in 2011 after, what her son, Gordon Cope, described as a long battle with her identity which started out with her dressing in women's clothing in the 1980s.

She was jailed in 2015 after being convicted of child abuse.

The inquest heard that Miss Cope, who had suffered abuse as a child and was taken into local authority care, committed numerous criminal offences between the mid-1970s and 2015, when she was sent to prison.

A police report stated that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Miss Cope's death, the Chesterfield hearing was told.


Miss Cope had suffered from mental health problems for some time and had a history of self-harm, at the time of her death she was under supervision while at HMP Foston Hall, which included three monitored visits from one of the prisons guards every hour.

It was during one of the visits that Miss Cope was found in the bathroom having attempted to take her own life, CPR was performed on her and she started to breathe again on her own while on the way to the Royal Derby Hospital.

However, over the course of the next few days, her condition deteriorated while in the intensive care unit and it was decided to remove all life support from her on November 28, 2016 with Miss Cope passing away the following day.

The inquest hearing continues and is due to last until the middle of next week.
 
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May 2015​


Transexual woman jailed after raping Tamworth girls when she was a man​


A MAN who raped two young Tamworth girls before undergoing a sex change operation has been jailed for 16 years.​


Nicola Cope – formerly known as ‘Gordon’ – groomed the girls for sex before systematically abusing them over a number of years, a jury at Stafford Crown Court ruled.​


Cope, now aged 57, of St Marys Courtyard, Atherstone, was found guilty of a total of nine charges of rape and four of indecent assault on the two girls between 1987 and 2003 when the defendant was living as a man in Tamworth.​


She was cleared of indecently assaulting a third young girl.​


‘Gordon’ underwent a sex change in 2008.​


Judge Mark Eades told her: “These are dreadful offences. You groomed mercilessly in order to commit sexual acts against [these girls].​


“It is difficult to imagine a worse case.​


“You knowingly set out to groom these children so you could have intercourse with them. It went on for a long time.​


“Ordinarily I would consider you a dangerous person, but now you have undergone your sex change, the likelihood of repetition is ruled out.​


“You have never once shown any remorse or sorrow for what you have done.”​


Along with the jail sentence, Cope was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life and banned from working with children, also for life.​


Mr Peter Arnold, prosecuting, said Cope’s sexual abuse began when one of the girls was aged either four, five or six. The other girl was aged seven when Cope began to abuse her.​


Mr Arnold told the jurors they may be wondering why, if the abuse happened “a fair time ago”, it had only just come to court.​


“You will be aware from all those cases in the papers, about celebrities: talking about intimate things, people bottle it up when they are younger, are confused about how they will be judged, are threatened by the abuser.​


“It is commonplace for those things not to come out until much later, some people go to their graves with it.”​


Cope had denied all the charges, claiming the abuse never happened. Her barrister, Miss Siobhan Collins, said: “There is no mitigation about these offences.”​

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IAmNotAlpharius said:
Skitzo men’s feelings outweigh the rights of women and children apparently.
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We're back before 1st wave feminism where men's opinions and feelings are more important and women have no power to do anything about it.

I'm glad this dude 41%ed himself but I bet it's because he knows what happens to child abusers in prison rather than regret over his actions.
 
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CatParty said:
Lmao why would they reprint it?
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For some reason they've only just got round to holding the inquest. Often when it's this late its because they've been waiting for e.g. a murder trial to finish, but I can't find reports on anything like that. But in this case the only reports come from last year when Sisters Uncut held a protest in London, including him in a list of 100 "women" "murdered by the state". Maybe we'll hear now, or maybe it will just be ignored by the press.

And much as I'm reluctant to blame kids for their parents' crimes, this story about his son being beaten up for being a pompous prat did make me laugh. But someone should explain that the guy who died wasn't his mother.

A public-spirited man has suffered injuries to his hands after being attacked for asking a yob to pick up his litter and put it in the bin.

Gordon Cope, 37, had just put his coffee cup in the bin outside Chesterfield Town Hall on Monday, February 28, when he noticed a man had dropped a drinking bottle on the floor and walked away.

Mr Cope told Derbyshire Live that he called after the man asking him to put it in the bin: "They just started being quite abusive to me and then he said he'd put me in the bin, so I walked over and then he went in my face, then his bird went in my face and then a third guy comes in my face and he swung at me."

Mr Cope continued: "When he did swing at me I pushed him back and there was a bit of tumble, he was telling me to go back where I come from, but I was born here."

Mr Cope said reported the incident to police and has been left with cuts to both hands caused, he said when he and the third man fell to the floor.

"They shouldn't have been chucking rubbish, I could've avoided it by minding my own business but we don't always do that do we?" Mr Cope added.

He admits that he did hit the third man involved but claims that was in self-defence and protecting himself.

"They just seem like no-hopers, any decent person would have said 'oh yeah probably not the best thing to do mate' and picked it up but the response was to attack me, it's not very civic is it?"

Mr Cope was at Chesterfield Town Hall attending the opening day of the inquest into the death of his mother back in 2016.
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He was attacked by three people outside Derbyshire town hall
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