'Woman' accused of transgender Tube murder is actually a MAN undergoing a sex change



Tragic: Lawyer David Burgess as Sonia



A man accused of pushing a transgender human rights lawyer under a Tube train is in the process of becoming a woman, a court heard today.

Unshaven Nina Kanagasingham, 34, of Chichele Road, Cricklewood, north-west London, appeared at the Old Bailey today charged with the murder of David Burgess - also known as Sonia.

This is the first time since his arrest that it has been revealed Kanagasingham is actually a man.



Judge Timothy Pontius asked: 'This defendant is in the process of undergoing a sex change. Has it been completed?'

He was told it had not, and that the defendant wished to be referred to as Nina.

Mr Burgess, 63, was struck by a train at King's Cross Underground station during evening rush-hour last Monday.

He was a human rights lawyer known professionally by his birth name of David.

Since Mr Burgess's death, it has emerged he offered his services on a website, where he advertised himself as a 'pre-op' transsexual escort looking for paid encounters with men.

Mr Burgess, who had two adult daughters and a son by his ex-wife, was a senior partner in his firm, with more than 40 years’ experience in immigration law. He had brought human rights cases against North Korea. His family knew him as both Sonia and David.

Mr Burgess had been dressing in women's clothing for four years and had set up profiles on two transgender websites as Sonia Jardiniere. On the website Birchplace, which bills itself as a 'lifestyle fetish community', the solicitor advertised himself as an escort and posted several photographs of himself as a woman, describing himself as having a 'party doll' personality. His page was titled 'Sonia (escort) - TV - London' and he described himself as a private Capricorn, slim, brown-eyed and ironic.