EXCLUSIVE: Victim tricked into having sex with transgender man
EXCLUSIVE: Victim tricked into having sex with transgender man who used a specially-made prosthetic penis claims police turned a blind eye as she was ‘held prisoner’ for more than a year
- EXCLUSIVE: Victim speaks about being coerced into sex with transgender man
- Targit Singh was called ‘controlling, violent and abusive’ by Judge Del Fabbro
- He used a fake penis and flew into a rage when questioned by his abuse victims
- Singh, 32, threatened to set one woman on fire and beat up and strangled her
- Snaresbrook Crown Court heard he lured his first victim, 16, over Facebook
A traumatised victim of transgender predator Tarjit Singh told how police turned a blind eye as she was ‘held prisoner’ for more than a year.
The terrified victim said she fell into the clutches of the controlling abuser after meeting on a dating site.
The woman, who is in her early 30’s, ended up trapped in an abusive relationship with Singh who was born Hannah Walters.
She was tricked into having sex with Singh who used a specially-made prosthetic penis and refused to get undressed in the bedroom.
Singh, 32, hid her true identity by strapping down her breasts while insisting sex took place in the dark.
An investigation finally began after a woman contacted police as Singh continued to ’stalk’ her.
Tarjit Singh, 32, was born as a female named Hannah Walters but now identifies as a transgender male
She gave the names of five other women who had been targeted by Singh after discovering letters they had written to her.
Last week Singh was convicted at Snaresbrook Crown Court of three counts of assault by penetration, six counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and one count of making a threat to kill.
During their relationship, it was months before the victim discovered the truth when she heard Singh’s father say ‘call him Hannah’ and ‘told me he was a girl’.
By then Singh had already taken control of the victim’s life and the revelation only enraged her further.
Speaking of her gruelling ordeal the woman told MailOnline: ‘I was forced to live with her. I wasn’t allowed to leave her. ‘I wasn’t allowed to leave the house. I was under her control for over a year. I didn’t go out. I wasn’t allowed to speak to friends or family.
‘I had a mobile but I wasn’t allowed to control it. She had the phone all the time.’
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told how the police were called at least five times before her ordeal came to an end. But each time she said they took no action forcing her to return to her tormentor.
She said: ‘My mother reported me missing four times because she wasn’t allowed to talk to me and didn’t know where I was. One time there was an incident where the police were called and they just left me there.
‘The neighbours heard her hitting me. They pulled me out of the window because I was getting beaten up. They called the police but they did nothing. They didn’t believe my story.
‘The police didn’t take it seriously. They just thought it was normal abuse.’
The woman told how she met Singh through the dating website Plenty of Fish. She said her date was ‘very caring and very nice to begin with’ and within a matter of weeks she moved into the house Walters shared with her father in Hackney, East London.
She quickly found herself trapped and unable to leave. Asked why she did not try to escape she said: ‘All I can say was that it was fear, pure fear. The abuse started within weeks. I was hit within the first few weeks but by then I already felt trapped.’
The woman told how a storyline on Hollyoaks about transgender issues had helped her to understand Walters was lying and she later confirmed the truth after finding her birth certificate.
She said: ’She was very convincing. She always dressed in boys clothes, jeans or tracksuit bottoms. Her breasts were strapped down so she didn’t appear to have any.
‘I didn’t know that she was a woman for months. She was angry before but she was angrier after I found out. She wouldn’t discuss it with me. She has never admitted to being born a woman.
‘She claimed she was born a man and became a woman but then wanted to be a man again.’
A view of Snaresbrook Crown Court in London where Singh was convicted of three counts of assault by penetration, six counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and one count of making a threat to kill
The woman told how she finally plucked up the courage to leave but was again ‘held hostage’ by Singh after returning to the house to collect her belongings.
She said: ‘I had taken a friend. She was waiting outside. I told her to give me 10 minutes and when nothing happened she called the police. The police finally opened the door. They came in and they let me go.’
Singh’s offending took place over six years between 2010 and 2016 but the sexual assaults on several women took place in the first four of those years.
He met his second victim in a chicken shop and his third, who has learning difficulties, on dating site Plenty of Fish. Two women had previously been sexually abused.
The judge told Singh he had been ‘aware that these women were vulnerable’ and had deceived them by ‘not truly revealing’ that he had been born biologically female.
Judge Oscar Del Fabbro told Singh he represents a ‘risk to the public of serious harm in the future’ and described him as a ‘dangerous offender’ who had committed repeated acts of violence and assaults against three ‘vulnerable’ victims.
The victims lived with him and this was a ‘dangerous environment for them, riddled with violence’ and problems Singh caused them emotionally, the judge said.
He added that Singh had not been ‘open and honest’ with them about his gender issues and described him as ‘an accomplished and manipulative liar’.
He said: ‘Instead of opening a frank and honest discussion about your gender and how you wanted to live your life, you chose a different path – you chose a path of deceit.
‘You persuaded them you were male and acted like you were male.’
His troubled victims, who included a girl who had just turned 16 and two women who had previously been sexually abused, were probably taken in by his charm, humour and the fact that he appeared willing to lend them a ‘sympathetic ear, but nothing could be further from the truth’.
The judge praised the victims and their families for ‘reliving the trauma’ of the ‘gruelling’ events by giving evidence during the trial to ensure Singh faced justice.
The court previously heard that when the victims began to ask questions, Singh became abusive and manipulative and told one of them there was more to a relationship than sex and that she should learn to talk about her feelings more.
Singh told another victim he had been born male, had a sex change to become female, and now wanted to be male again.
The third victim met Singh after receiving a message through the dating website Plenty of Fish in 2014.
The 16-year-old who had become involved with Singh had previously been sexually abused, was estranged from her family and needed a shoulder to cry on.
Her ‘naivety was plain’, the judge said, and she was taken into care by the age of 17.
Singh left one of his victims with a fractured nose and a cut on the head. She was also doused with lighter fluid and threatened with being set alight.
The court heard Singh has previous offences including false imprisonment, perverting the course of justice, administering a noxious substance, having a Taser, going equipped, causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and assault occasioning actual bodily harm
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