Taxpayers have covered a secret compensation bill after a trans murderer sexually assaulted a female prisoner after he was allowed to serve time in a women’s prison. 

Killer Clinton Rintoull attacked the prisoner at Victoria’s HM Tarrengower Prison in 2022 after being transferred there from a men’s facility.

Rintoull had been moved to the minimum-security women’s prison while transitioning from male to female.

Last week, the Allan government approved a taxpayer-funded secret payout to the victim of the prison sex assault.

Following the attack, Rintoull was transferred back to the minimum-security Langi Kal Kal men’s prison farm near Ballarat.

Despite the assault, Rintoull was granted parole in 2024 and is now living in the community under a new and undisclosed identity.

The murderer had been serving a 20-year sentence for the savage 2007 killing of 19-year-old Sudanese refugee Liep Gony.

Rintoull and co-accused Dylan Sabatino beat Mr Gony to death, with Rintoull telling others beforehand he was ‘going to take the town back by killing blacks’.

However, the murder was found to be ‘not racially motivated’ despite Rintoull spraying racist graffiti in a flat which read ‘F*** da n***as’.

Rintoull was spotted carrying a pole and making threatening remarks which were heard by a neighbour.

‘These blacks are turning the town into the Bronx. I am looking to take my town back. I’m going to kill the blacks,’ Rintoull said.

Former Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Curtain described Mr Gony’s bashing as ‘vicious, brutal and unprovoked’.

Rintoull was handed a minimum 16-year term, which he commenced in a male prison before he was shifted to Tarrengower near Maldon in Victoria’s west.

The bombshell development came after it was reported Corrections Victoria last month updated its policies for the placement of transgender prisoners to ‘allow them less say over where they are held in custody’.

It’s understood senior Labor figures pushed for a tougher crackdown, including a blanket ban on any male-born transgender killers or sex offenders being housed in female prisons.

Senior government sources said the blanket ban plan will be reignited amid revelations of Rintoull’s offending. 

Rintoull is one of at least seven biological males who have been transferred from men’s prisons to Victoria’s female-only jails, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and HM Tarrengower.

In October, Corrections Minister Enver Erdogan directed Corrections Victoria to update policies relating to transgender criminals, placing greater consideration on the prisoner’s offending rather than their trans status.

An updated policy published last month ditched a requirement that a ‘person should be imprisoned in the prison of their gender rather than their sex assigned or assumed at birth’ as a ‘guiding principle’.

Transgender dad Autumn Tulip Harper, who abused his own daughter for the sexual gratification of a vile paedophile, is one high-profile inmate who could be moved to a men’s jail.

Harper, 26, was sentenced to four years and nine months in jail – with a non-parole period of two years and six months – after being snared by police in a global bust of a paedophile ring.

Premier Allan has previously refused to comment on the case of Harper, better known by the court-ordered pseudonym ‘Hilary Maloney’, saying it would be ‘deeply inappropriate’ for the Premier or any minister ‘to be reaching into Corrections Victoria and directing the placement of any prisoner.’

The length and conditions of the sentence caused an outcry, with women’s rights groups protesting against the prisoner’s placement at the female-only Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has committed to banning male-born ‘transgender sex offenders’ and paedophiles from the state’s female prisons.

An Allan government spokesperson ducked answering a question on the secret payout.

‘The safety and welfare of all prisoners in the system is paramount when determining placements,’ the spokeperson said. 

‘Corrections Victoria has updated its placement policies so it’s clearer that this must be the first consideration when deciding where prisoners go. We stand ready to act further if needed.’