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Accused of murder - found NOT guilty. (Click here!)
It's an interesting story for sure. Looks to me like this lucky man dodged a bullet, but that aside...
To me the interesting aspect of this case is how the BBC has respectfully referred to the victim as female in every way. In fact her sexual identity has, if anything, been underplayed in this story.
And this in a country where it would be so easy to create a sensational story because of the way the British are so poorly educated about sexual identity and diversity.
If this had been reported here in Thailand by the local media (and global home of the 'ladyboy') there would have been all kinds of masculine references to the victim to the point where the adolescent standards of journalism would have confused the two protagonists in this tragic story altogether.
Good job by the BBC...
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Accused of murder - found NOT guilty. (Click here!)
A teenager has been cleared of killing a transsexual woman found strangled in her south London home.
Shanniel Hyatt, 18, denied that he killed Kellie Telesford in a rage after discovering she was a pre-operative transgender female who was born a man.
Her body was found after they engaged in sexual activity at her Thornton Heath flat, the Old Bailey heard...
Shanniel Hyatt, 18, denied that he killed Kellie Telesford in a rage after discovering she was a pre-operative transgender female who was born a man.
Her body was found after they engaged in sexual activity at her Thornton Heath flat, the Old Bailey heard...
To me the interesting aspect of this case is how the BBC has respectfully referred to the victim as female in every way. In fact her sexual identity has, if anything, been underplayed in this story.
And this in a country where it would be so easy to create a sensational story because of the way the British are so poorly educated about sexual identity and diversity.
If this had been reported here in Thailand by the local media (and global home of the 'ladyboy') there would have been all kinds of masculine references to the victim to the point where the adolescent standards of journalism would have confused the two protagonists in this tragic story altogether.
Good job by the BBC...
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Accused of murder - found NOT guilty. (Click here!)
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