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Title: Sex-change soldier assaulted in champagne bar
Post by: Natasha on August 30, 2008, 08:49:33 PM
Sex-change soldier assaulted in champagne bar

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/08/30/champers-bar-attack-on-sex-change-para-86908-20717067/ (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/08/30/champers-bar-attack-on-sex-change-para-86908-20717067/)
8/30/2008

A MAN has been convicted of assaulting Britain's first sex-change Army officer in a champagne bar.

James Young's victim was former Parachute Regiment hero Captain Ian Hamilton, who served his country in six war zones.

The Aberdeen-born ex-soldier is now known as Jan Hamilton.

Glasgow-born Young, 46, of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, yesterday admitted the assault in Lytham's Zest bar in May.