Drug dealer avoids jail for sex-change

Liberal legal looniness: Judge frees drug dealer because

jail term would conflict with his sex-change surgery

by The Christian Institute

A transsexual drug dealer has escaped a jail sentence after a judge ruled it would ruin his chances of completing a sex change.

Ian Morris, 41, who changed his name to Jean in 2009, is due to start Government-funded hormone treatment next week.

He was on trial after police intercepted nearly 2kg of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine which was sent to his flat.

Mr Morris’s lawyers pleaded with Judge Mark Horton to spare him a jail term because of his sex change operation and asserted that he would find it “difficult” in a male prison.

The judge agreed and suspended Mr Morris’s eleven month sentence at Bristol Crown Court.

In July a transsexual who downloaded pornographic images of children was spared jail because the judge said prison would be an “appalling experience” for him.

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