Bulgarian citizen, Sredko Ichkov, a picker, invented the most original method to avoid criminal penalty. The criminal case was eventually closed at the end of the trial, whereas the perpetrator was declared as "missing." Ichkov had a sex change operation before the process: the man became a woman and obtained a new name, Albena Mikhailova. The judge ruled that a woman had nothing to do with the man's crimes. The trial proved that the contemporary legal base has to adjust itself to achievements of science and medicine.
Modern science will apparently make legal experts revise quite a number of laws and instructions. Genetics is capable of shaking fundamental principles of the society, when human body becomes a platform for various scientific experiments. Transsexual individuals do not fit in any legal instruction nowadays.
Sredko Ichkov, a common thief, was arrested in 2004. The Bulgarian man was caught red-handed: he was supposed to be jailed for three years. Sredko was released on bail for the period of 12 months: the man decided to use the time to drastically renovate himself. When he appeared in court again, the judge was shocked to see the defendant: the thief turned into a dark-haired woman.
The brunet told the judge that she used to be that "rude and uncouth dork," with whom she had nothing left in common. The "female" defendant was emotionally trying to prove to the judge that she had been trying to break loose from Sredko's body throughout her entire life and bid farewell to her criminal past. The woman claimed that it was Sredko Ichkov's criminal nature, which made her commit the crimes
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