A transgender former prisoner has spoken of the 'hell' she went through while serving a six-month sentence in a women's prison.

Katelyn Findlay, 21, of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, claims she was falsely accused of sexually assaulting another woman at Cornton Vale jail and put in solitary confinement for a month.

Now, Katelyn is working as an escort and has revealed that she's proud of her new job, which enables her to live a life of luxury and buy designer clothes.

When Katelyn Findlay, 21, of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire was sentenced to six months in prison for robbery in 2013 she had been living as a woman for two years

Katelyn, who was born Stuart Kelly, was sent to the prison in June 2013 as she had been actively living as a woman for two years at the time.

However, she had not physically started the sex change process when she was jailed for robbing keys and a SIM card from her ex partner.

She also admitted resisting arrest and shouting, swearing, spitting at and violently struggling with three police constables who attended the scene.

Katelyn said she was falsely accused of sexually assaulting a fellow prisoner after being put into a hall with people with mental health problems.

Katelyn claims she was made an outcast at the prison and claims she was thrown into solitary confinement for a month after a fellow inmate accused her of sexual assault

'I was put on lockdown in a cell while they investigated and the police took me for questioning and to take swabs,' she told The Daily Record.

Katelyn claims she was left in the cell for more than a month.

Now Katelyn is working as an escort and says she's proud of her new profession. She claims to have quite a few male clients who pay her up to £150 to accompany them to dinner

'I was labelled a beast and a thug and somehow it made the headlines that I had allegedly attacked this woman.'

Katelyn claims that during her time at the prison she was made to feel like and outcast, and says staff told her they hadn't been trained to deal with someone who was transgender.

She claims that when she was showering, the other prisoners 'had to be locked up' but she was allowed to 'walk around' when they were showering.

Writing on her Facebook page, Katelyn revealed why she wanted to speak out about her experience.

'I will be talking out for the first time, everyone has had such an opinion on me over the past 3 years because of the s*** that has been said about me, its time everyone hears what really happens behind closed doors [sic].'

Her spell at Cornton Vale was Katelyn's first custodial sentence, but it was by no means her last.

Following her release from prison, she found herself in trouble with the law again.

In July 2014 she was sentenced to 10 months in prison after flying into a drunken rage and threatening customers in an arts centre cafe and almost exposing her genitalia, claiming she wasn't being served fast enough because she 'was a tranny'.

She then approached a 58-year-old woman who was working in the kiosk and asked her: 'Are you a transvestite? Have you got a w****?'

At the time, the court heard she had 21 previous convictions for crimes including dishonesty, disorder, threatening and abusive behaviour, racially aggravated harassment and sexual offences.

In the same year, Katelyn was also ordered to complete a three-year community payback order for slapping a man with a condom at Hyndland rail station in Glasgow.

After surviving on virtually nothing and living in a tiny bedsit, Katelyn now claims she can live a lavish lifestyle thanks to 'working really hard' as an escort

Katelyn is now working an escort, and claims she earns up to £150 to accompany men to dinner.

She also advertises her business on Facebook, writing: 'Escorting tonight mail me for a booking.'

Because of her criminal past, she said she would struggle to get a job.

But she says she is proud of her new profession as she works hard for her money.

Katelyn, who used to live in a bedsit, admitted to having 'quite a few' clients who take her out on dinner dates and says her career choice had enabled her to live a 'life of luxury' - with Dior dresses and Gucci handbags.