Businessman smothers glamorous Russian bride to death... after discovering that she used to be a man

Briton Chris Collier, 40, has been jailed for 24 years for battering his Russian 'mail order' wife Julia, 35, before smothering her to death after discovering that she had undergone a sex change.

Postings in an internet forum used by expat Brits claimed to be Collier.

One said: 'I paid for my wife and then moved to Kusadasi in my rented apartment.'

It went on to add that the woman 'used to be a bloke'.

A friend of Collier, who did not want to be named, said the couple had been married for a number of years, but had no children.

She said: 'Chris went out to Turkey to make a new start over 10 years ago.

'Julia was just the nicest girl you could ever meet.

During his trial, the court heard he had knocked his wife unconscious with a hard object before smothering her.

Daily Mail

I can certainly understand why he was angry. Its one thing to be a transsexual. Its another thing entirely to marry a man who doesn't know you used to be a man too.

How selfish do you have to be to marry someone without telling them you are a transsexual?

How could they have been married for several years and he didn't know? How did he find out? I can see how he would be angry at the deception, but if he loved her after several years of marriage, would that not have made a difference? Afterall, it is the inner person you love not the outer shell, I tend to think if you go so far as having a full on sex change then perhaps you really are a male suck in a female body and vice versa, so really the inner person was just getting a matching body. Perhaps that is a bit of a simplistic cut and dry way of looking at things, but it is how I see it. He could just have left her rather than killing her.

Originally posted by CthulhuMythos
How could they have been married for several years and he didn't know? How did he find out? I can see how he would be angry at the deception, but if he loved her after several years of marriage, would that not have made a difference? Afterall, it is the inner person you love not the outer shell, I tend to think if you go so far as having a full on sex change then perhaps you really are a male suck in a female body and vice versa, so really the inner person was just getting a matching body. Perhaps that is a bit of a simplistic cut and dry way of looking at things, but it is how I see it. He could just have left her rather than killing her.

I have to agree with you, this guys overreaction cost the life of someone, although not entirely innocent herself, she did not deserve to die over this

Glamorous is misleading... but then so was she/he eh?

Im assuming she was post operative?
Anyway.....this is retarded. You dont kill people because youre a homophobe. This guy should be smothered to death