A homeless transwoman who harassed hostel staff was moved from the women’s wing after admitting she registered as female “to see hot totty”.
Chloe Dove, 48, pleaded guilty to harassing two staff members at St Patrick’s Night Hostel, one of whom said he feared for the safety of staff and residents because of a lack of safeguarding there.
Brighton Magistrates Court heard today Dove was eventually evicted from the hostel after subjecting the pair to constant threats and sexualised language and behaviour.
She was today due to be sentenced for the two counts of harassment, and for outraging public decency by urinating and defecating outside the hostel and criminal damage for smearing excrement over police cells.
The court heard she once asked a female member of staff to look at her genitals for health reasons – only later admitting it was actually for sexual kicks.
She frequently made sexual comments about her clothing and appearance, asking her about her shower habits or her shaving routine.
And just before she was evicted, she said she was suicidal so the staff member would agree to come and talk to her – only to then start talking about her sexual preferences.
Another worker at the Cambridge Road hostel, Barney Osborn, said after Dove told him she would follow him wherever he went, he stopped getting the bus and started getting taxis to and from work.
He said he saw her jumping over the counter and hiding in the office in wait for people.
In a victim impact statement read out in court he said: “At first I thought her behaviour was because she’s on the autistic spectrum, but it was more predatory than that.
“I thought she registered as female because she felt more comfortable with women. But she told staff it was because she wanted to see hot totty.
“After that we moved her out of the women’s flat.”
He added: “Dove was transferred to us with no real paperwork or history. My manager just said you’ve got to take her.
“Her behaviour snowballed and I felt that people were put at risk because of these sort of mistakes.
“It’s because of this lack of management support that I left this job. I felt it was too dangerous and that I would burn out there.”
Prosecuting, David Holman said the harassment of staff happened in April this year. On 27 April, after she was evicted she returned to the hostel.
He said: “She was pressing the bell and rattling the door, then urinated and pooped near the entrance. On the 999 call, she could be heard explaining she was starting to poop outside the address.”
The previous week, she had been in the cells at Brighton Custody Centre where she had smeared faeces over the walls, sink, drinking tap and viewing hatch.
Mr Holman said: “When police officers attended the cell, she appeared amused.”
Dove also admitted two breaches of court bail after failing to turn up to two previous court hearings – following which she was remanded into custody on 1 July.
Defending, Andrew Foreman said there had been a long gap in Dove’s record, who was last convicted of burglary in 2015 when she was known as Trevor Parnham.
He told the bench: “For a long time after moving to Brighton due to the diverse and eclectic nature of the city here and the acceptance of being transgender, she felt at home here and there was no reoffending.
“You are dealing here with someone who has or may have complex psychiatric needs.
“Probation say Chloe Dove would be difficult to handle with a community sentence unless she was given suitable accommodation with mental health treatment attached to that.
“People used to be accommodated in hospitals, but that service is no longer available. People are therefore held in custody and that’s what has happened in Chloe Dove’s case.”
Dove also addressed the court herself, saying she had defecated outside the hostel because she was incontinent and had been trying to get in to use the toilet.
She also said: “The only comment I ever made was your skirt’s too short. It was just a passing comment for which I apologise as well.”
Chair of the bench Alan Jones told Dove he was adjourning the hearing for a psychiatric report.
He remanded her in custody to Lewes Prison – a men’s prison – again, on the basis there was a high risk she would reoffend or fail to appear.
No words
Disgusting behaviour. Should have to clean the mess up that was made then they wouldn’t do it again. Why should a cleaner have to do it.
He wouldn’t clean it, he’d just slop it around with water and make a giant puddle of shitty water that eventually someone would have to clean up.
It’s nothing new. Back in the nineties I worked in Sheridan House and the ramp leading down to the car park was frequently used as a toilet by the people either waiting to get into the shelter at St Patrick’s or they just leaving. It seemed there was no consideration given to the residents or workers as the hostel users did as they pleased – drinking and fighting in the road, intimidating local shop workers and using the place as a toilet.
I think this comment is very true.
He added: “Dove was transferred to us with no real paperwork or history. My manager just said you’ve got to take her.
“Her behaviour snowballed and I felt that people were put at risk because of these sort of mistakes.
“It’s because of this lack of management support that I left this job. I felt it was too dangerous and that I would burn out there.”
People are transferred to hostels with little or no risk assessments and then pressure is applied to not evict them regardless of their behaviour, it can be a very damaging place to work, not just St Patrick’s, but other hostels in the city too.
So, are “they” a man or a woman? If this was not yet another serious breakdown in the way “woke” had taken over our society, it would seem like some TV comedy sketch. And we can be sure this won’t be the last.
Dove is a man. The article is fibbing about his sex but referring to him as “she”.
Its arrant nonsense to be going along with this ideology that states that a person can “choose” what sex they are. The “pretty” words of “gender” are being used but really what it comes right down to, is that a MAN is demanding he is referred to as a “woman” using female sexed pronouns and names and granting him access to female only spaces – just so he can “get off”.
And yet, “journalists”, the court, police, political parties, charities, NGOs, way too many employers, NHS, education – you name it, every aspect of society, are quite prepared to aid, abet and LIE for this men.
I notice how all the transphobes on the comments here hide behind their aliases to post their nasty little bigoted opinions….
Try to remember you lot that behind every adult who behaves like this is a neglected and/or traumatized child. Mental health services are still chronically underfunded, despite the increased awareness of mental health needs. People get worse because of this lack of investment, and present with problems that could have been resolved with a lot less money had they been sorted out earlier!
That’s simply not true. Some humans are straightforwardly bad, some can grow up in loving families and take a similar track, some can have a cluster B personality disorder the cause of which can be trauma but equally can be of genetic origin, some can reach a similar point via substance abuse, which itself can have a multiplicity of drivers.
Sorry, I did not mean to cause offence, but in a broad sense their is neglect in a society which turns some one out like this, and fails to provide services to prevent it, or supervise someone whose “bad” behaviour is unavoidable.
It is true. And stop stigmatizing ‘cluster B’ as ‘being a bad person’.
That’s not true.
People like this should not be on the streets, in hostels or prisons, they should be permanently locked up in secure mental health facilities. Some people are dangerously insane, they can’t be fixed, a secure facility equipped to handle them is the only reasonable solution
Why are you referring to a male by female pronouns? It is deeply offensive to actual women. This is not a woman, and HE should not be referred to as one.
MAN. Use the correct pronouns! Hugely offensive to actual women.
No. You’re offensive. Why the hell are you in Brighton? Your transphobia isn’t welcome here hun.
Why is it offensive to women?
No, you’re just a transphobe. Just because somebody has done something we don’t like, doesn’t mean that you don’t have to accord them the basic human decency and respect of gendering them correctly. Shame on you.
No, YOU are deeply offensive. Your transphobia is not welcome here.
should be PUT down
That’s a disgusting comment. I think the transphobes are really just outing themselves here….
Stop calling this man “her”. He’s a man with autogynephillia -a male sexual fetish getting off on pretending to be
a woman. He is obviously a threat to women and their female safe spaces.
In Brighton and Hove if a man – any man – says he’s really a woman, then hey presto: here’s the key to your room in the women’s shelter!
Self ID has been successfully implemented in countless more progressive countries than the UK now. But evidence never matters to transphobes.
HE. He pissed, shat and was predatory.
Call them what they are. Men.
These are not our crimes.
That’s a really weird response. Women can equally be as delinquent if not more so
Yes, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept the crimes committed by these men as well. Apart from the fact that it skews the statistics.
That’s untrue. Women are not ‘equally’ delinquent. Women generally do not smear faeces, I should know, I worked with homeless women and women with severe mental health problems for over 20 years and never had a client do this. Women are very unlikely to be violent or sexually abusive. That’s why they are around 4% of the prison population
Untrue, have had cleaned Women’s toilets before: can confirm that women are equally capable of smearing shit.
This is a man. Stop denigrating women by referring to this pervert as a woman.
Stop referring to trans women as men. And if you live in Brighton, you might want to consider leaving because your bigotry certainly isn’t welcome here.
He remanded her in custody to Lewes Prison – a men’s prison – again, on the basis there was a high risk she would reoffend or fail to appear.
So “she” is in a men’s prison. You couldn’t make that up. Will she be dressed as a woman, and wear make-up there?
That’s a man with Autogynophilia .Not a woman, not our crimes.
I actually think it’s disgusting that this woman, who is clearly extremely mentally unwell, is being publicly named and shamed like this. Ask yourself – would you have done this if this was a cisgender woman? I suspect not. Hypersexuality and inappropriate sociosexual behaviour is well-known to be a symptom of mental illness (eg. mania in bipolar disorder). And to all the transphobes in the comments misgendering her – the shame is all yours.