FEMALE cons are said to be terrified after a transgender paedophile was moved to their prison.

Michelle Lewin, 51, was jailed indefinitely in 2007 for grooming underage girls.

3 Michelle Lewin, born Shaun Pudwell, changed gender while in prison for a grooming underage girls

3 Lewin has been moved to HMP Peterborough while she is waiting for gender reassignment surgery Credit: PA:Press Association

She is believed to have been transferred to HMP Peterborough while awaiting gender reassignment surgery.

But a source said: “A lot of the women are genuinely terrified of her. Lewin’s a serious sex offender and she’s physically much stronger.

“There are female inmates in there who have been raped and they are scared of her.”

The prison, run by private firm Sodexo, holds 400 women.

3 The paedophile married Mark Lewin, taking his name, while in HMP Elmley in 2014 Credit: PA:Press Association

Lewin, who has two children, was born Shaun Pudwell. She has to be held in a female jail after getting a gender recognition certificate. It is understood there have been no issues with Lewin’s conduct at Peterborough.

In 2014 at HMP Elmley in Kent she wed Mark Lewin. He was later jailed in 2015 for having indecent images of kids but has since been released.

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At home in Caterham, Surrey, he said: “She’s been moved because she is legally female.” Figures show there are 25 transgender cons in women’s jails.

Transgender lag Karen White, 52, carried out four sex attacks at women’s prison HMP New Hall while on remand for rape.

To be legally recognised as a transgender woman, a person must have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and lived as a woman for two years.