EADT24 Ipswich:Building worker convicted of threatening behaviour towards transsexualBy colin adwent, crime correspondent Monday, July 2, 2012 10:11 AM
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ipswich_building_worker_convicted_of_threatening_behaviour_towards_transsexual_1_1427872 A BUILDING worker has been convicted of threatening behaviour towards a transsexual in Suffolk's first successful transphobic hate crime prosecution.
Today, Thomas Sawyer's defiant victim Julia Ford told how the abuse she suffered from others as a result of police getting involved in the case drove her to the brink of despair.
Sawyer, of Wellington Street, Ipswich, pleaded guilty before the town's magistrates to two charges of threatening behaviour towards Miss Ford. However, there was no suggestion Sawyer was involved in the other matters alleged by Miss Ford, who lived in the same block of flats.
The 54-year-old said people would shout abuse and physically block her, leaving her fearing for her safety.
As a result Miss Ford suffered
