David Burgess/Sonia Burgess: A Personal Ad

If someone who discovered a cure for cancer died, and the tabloids discovered they'd had a slightly unconventional sex life, Fagburn imagines the headlines would read;
'Cancer Boffin's Kinky Sex Shame'
The Evening Standard yesterday broke the news that the highly-respected human rights lawyer, David Burgess, had placed an advert on a fetish website as a "pre-op" transexual escort, Sonia.
Today's papers can hardly contain their excitement about 'Sex-swap Lawyer's Escort Ad' (The Sun).
Perhaps this excitement by the tabloids is relief - after they got so much so wrong about poor Gareth Williams.
Or as The Sun announced on August 26th; ''Murdered Spook Was A Cross-Dresser.'
The Lawyer pays tribute to Burgess's "trail-blazing" work on immigration law here.