Kim on murder charge

SMILING ACCUSED: Transgender Christopher Alexander who goes by the name Kim, left, is escorted out of the San Fernando Magistrates Court yesterday after appearing on a murder charge. PHOTO BY ANIL RAMPERSAD
SMILING ACCUSED: Transgender Christopher Alexander who goes by the name Kim, left, is escorted out of the San Fernando Magistrates Court yesterday after appearing on a murder charge. PHOTO BY ANIL RAMPERSAD

UPDATED:

A transgender woman appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of her lover, Keil Lemsey, on December 18.

Christopher Alexander, who is also called Kim, appeared before Magistrate Christine Charles in the San Fernando Magistrates Court.

Lemsey’s body was discovered by a sanitation worker stuffed in a garbage bin on the National Energy Skills Centre campus in Debe on December 18. He had been stabbed multiple times.

Lemsey was 35 and lived in St Augustine. When his body was first discovered, there were reports that Lemsey identified as transgender, but the police issued a press release a day later saying it was Alexander who identifies as a woman.

Alexander, also 35, of Corinth Settlement, Ste Madeleine, was a security guard at the campus. She was arrested on the scene and allegedly told police she and Lemsey were in a relationship. She was charged by Cpl Smith of the Region 3 Homicide Bureau on December 22 on the advice of acting Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Joan Honore-Paul. When she came to court yesterday, Alexander wore a shirt and pants with a stocking cap on her head. She was represented by attorney Indira Binda.

Her relatives crowded the public gallery and several of her female relatives wept as the charge was read. One of the women collapsed outside the courthouse and had to be lifted by other relatives. She was put in a chair and cried loudly as her family tried to console her.

The matter was adjourned to January 24.

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