A British TikToker who claims to be a transgender woman has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for violent and sexual offenses, including “at least” ten instances of rape. Jordan O’Brien, 34, who also goes by Jennifer Nieve on social media, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court last October of rape, assault by penetration, threatening with an offensive weapon, and other violent offenses.
During sentencing yesterday, Judge Tim Harrington said the rape conviction involved no fewer than 10 instances of violent sexual abuse, saying, “I have to sentence you for at least 10 occasions that you raped her. This was repeated offending.”
O’Brien was referred to as “Jennifer” throughout the sentencing hearing.
Last fall, a former friend of O’Brien’s shared images of court documents on social media after learning about the five-day trial and conviction. O’Brien had been charged with six counts of sexual abuse, including rape, assault by penetration, strangulation, coercive control, and threatening to assault the victim with a weapon. According to the court records, the offenses took place between June and December of 2022.
O’Brien is described as having exerted terrifying control over his victim, monitoring her cellular device, destroying her possessions, and being verbally abusive towards her. Among the more serious convictions, O’Brien was found to have raped his victim with a dildo, strangled her, and threatened her with a knife.
A victim statement read aloud in court on her behalf described the psychological impact of the abuse she had endured.
“I don’t sleep for very long, and I’m up at all hours of the night,” the statement read. “If I am in a group of more than five people I suffer from anxiety. The impact has been long term and deeply damaging. I have lived for years with fear and anxiety.”
O’Brien had amassed over 60,000 followers on social media for videos he made about identifying as transgender, and, judging by comments made on TikTok, had been receiving gifts and financial donations from his fans. One respondent stated that they had come to regret spending over £100 on O’Brien after learning about the charges against him.
After his conviction in October, multiple former associates of O’Brien came forward to express their outrage at the situation and reveal more details about O’Brien’s history.
O’Brien’s former roommate, a drag queen who uses the moniker Charli Angel, also took to TikTok to condemn O’Brien for his crimes. Angel, who attended the trial at Manchester Crown Court, said he had been misled about the serious nature of the charges against him, while referring to O’Brien with feminine pronouns.
In a follow-up video, Angel described how O’Brien appeared to lack remorse during sentencing.
“I’ve just got back from Manchester Crown Court where Jennifer Nieve has been sentenced. She [sic] was found guilty of rape, sexual assault by penetration, coercive control, and threatening with a weapon – which was knives… She had a stern face, with no remorse on her face.”
He continued: “The judge said she will have a restraining order against her which will protect the victim and her child, and that will be indefinitely. Jennifer will also have to notify the police of where she lives for the rest of her life.”
Reporting on the sentencing this week, multiple British news outlets prompted criticism on social media for referring to O’Brien with feminine pronouns or burying his male sex in their reporting.
@CatalanDream @ABardsleyMEN @DailyMirror whose idea was it to ensure that if you only read the first part of this story (as many people do), you would assume the rapist was a woman?
— Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS (@Sorelle_Arduino) January 30, 2026
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While it has not been publicly stated where O’Brien will be serving his sentence, it is believed he will be held in a men’s institution due to a 2023 policy change that put restrictions on allowing trans-identified males to be placed in the women’s estate.
The change was prompted by an eruption of public outrage over the case of Isla Bryson, a trans-identified male convicted of raping two women. Bryson’s initial placement in a female prison in Scotland ignited fierce international debate over whether self-identified gender should determine prison placement.
The backlash, fueled by concerns for female inmates’ safety, quickly became a flashpoint and prompted urgent reviews across the United Kingdom. In response, the UK Ministry of Justice for England and Wales tightened its rules, barring transgender women with male genitalia or convictions for violent or sexual offenses from the women’s prison estate except in what they claimed were “the most exceptional cases.”
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