Cross-dresser remanded in custody for breaching ASBO by wearing school skirt and blazer
Peter Trigger
A CROSS-DRESSER who wants to be a woman has been remanded in custody by magistrates for wearing a skirt and a school blazer.
Dr Peter Trigger, aged 62, was arrested and charged with breaching an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) after a parent of children who attend school near his Northampton home, twice saw him wearing a skirt, baring his legs and wearing a school blazer.
Trigger, who is a doctor of education, is banned from wearing skirts or schoolgirl uniforms during times when children are being dropped off or picked up from Woodvale Primary School, Thorplands, under the terms of an ASBO, imposed in December 2008.
Sean Sigmoney, prosecuting at Northampton Magistrates’ Court yesterday, said a mother was taking her daughter to school in July when she saw Trigger wearing a thigh-length grey skirt and a blue Northampton Academy blazer.
He added: “It was around two weeks later she was again taking her children to school in the area of Lings Way and saw the defendant again and, as far as his attire is concerned, he was wearing a Northampton Academy blazer and a school skirt.”
Trigger, who is seeking a sex change, denied breaching the ASBO but was convicted at trial and appeared in court for sentence yesterday.
Paul Harkins, in mitigation, said: “He wants, for want of a better phrase, to be a girl. That stopped when he was a teen but now, later in life, that’s come back to the fore. It’s important to him. The way he is is the way he is and that’s why he feels victimised.
“He’s been told that if he wants to become a woman, then he needs to live more as a woman than he normally does. It’s quite obvious to him that the immediate neighbourhood does not like him for what he is and that’s why they make fun of him. He has been treated in an awful way by people who he would say do not understand.”
The magistrates’ bench declined to pass sentence yesterday stating their maximum powers of a year’s imprisonment were insufficient.
Remanding him in custody, presiding magistrate, Angus Ferris, said: “We do not see our powers are sufficiently robust and we propose to ask a judge at Crown Court to use enhanced sentencing powers. You are portrayed as an intelligent man and we feel you fully understand the sanctions which apply to you by way of an ASBO.”
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