A man who pushed a lawyer under a Tube train in central London has been jailed at the Old Bailey for her manslaughter. The victim, Sonia Burgess, 63, a leading human rights and immigration lawyer, who was transgender, had befriended the offender Senthooran Kanagasingham, 35, who was undergoing sex-change treatment at the time. Ms Burgess introduced Kanagasingham to his GP because she was worried about the killer’s mental state and had fears over the effect of the hormones prescribed to him. Kanagasingham was becoming psychotic and had paranoid schizophrenia at the time of killing. Because his mental state, the jury have sentenced Kanagasinghamto a minimum of seven years for manslaughter.
My reaction:It was hard for me to understand this article properly because with the victim and the offender were transgender. So in the article, they sometimes used the pronoun “his” to indicate the victim and “her” to indicate the offender. This confused me in the beginning, but after reading the article a couple of times, the story became clear to me.
In my opinion, this crime could have been prevented if Mr Kanagasingham would have received professional help for his mental state earlier. He committed the crime because he had paranoid schizophrenia. Ms Burgess already noticed Mr Kanagasingham becoming psychotic because of the sex-change medicines, but I think she did not know his mental situation would be so dangerous.
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