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Prison staff are 'outraged' a transgender murderer is set to have gender-swap surgery on the NHS.

Paris Green – born Peter Laing – will be the first serving ­Scottish prisoner to have the operation.

It is not known exactly how much it will cost, but it is believed to be tens of thousands of pounds. The NHS can pay up to £60,000, according to the Daily Record.

Mirror Online has previously reported the surgery for Green, who is serving life in prison, will be an estimated £20,000.

And the Daily Record say prison staff are furious.

One prison officer told the paper: “Most of the people I’ve discussed this matter with think it’s outrageous.

“You can murder someone brutally but while you’re in prison you’re ­entitled to everything you ask for because it might breach your human rights to say no.

"What about the rights of the victim and his family?”

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The prisoner will be taken from Saughton jail in Edinburgh to a private hospital in the south of England.

Green was jailed in 2013 after she and two friends tortured, sexually assaulted and battered Robert ­Shankland, 45, to death.

Mr Shankland's family say she should not be getting the operation on the NHS because "it’s not lifesaving treatment".

The victim's sister, Pauline Bell, 46, slammed the move.

She said: “She should not be getting the operation on the NHS. It’s not lifesaving treatment. She took ­somebody’s life away and destroyed a family.”

Green, from Glenrothes, Scotland, has identified as a woman since 2011, taken female hormones and lived as a woman in jail for five years.

She will be operated on at the Nuffield hospital in Brighton, where she will spend two weeks’ ­recovery in a private room.

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There are about 18 transgender prisoners in Scots jails.

The Scottish Prison Service said: “If a request is made by the NHS for surgery for a prisoner it is treating, we would not and could not stand in the way.”

Mr Shankland was murdered in March 2013 when Green and pals Kevin McDonagh and Dean Smith invited him to a party in Green’s flat in Glenrothes, Fife.

The trio then tied him up and tortured him for hours, beating him so badly they left a footprint on his neck. They also sexually assaulted him with a rolling pin.

He died as a result of either suffocation or blunt force injuries.

The attack was described by a judge as “utterly depraved”.

The trio were found guilty of murdering Mr Shankland and sentenced to life with a minimum of 18 years.