'Street’ star named in row

Press, 1 September 1980, Page 16

'Street’ star named in row

NZPA London A sex-change woman boasted that she had a lesbian relationship with a former “Coronation Street” star, Jennifer Moss, a court has heard in London. Details of the love life of the former actress, 'known to millions as Lucille Hewitt, were told when her 26-year-old husband, John Neil, was jailed for. nine months after admitting wounding a transexual, Edwina White, aged 25. He : lost his temper . whei Miss’ White, called Edwina in court but listed on the court sheets as Edwin, boasted of a sexual relationship with his . wife, who was convicted recently on a burglary charge. The pair, had met at a Preston nightclub’s “gay night,” said prosecution counsel, William Morris, and Jennifer Moss ■ had made advances with a view to a lesbian relationship. •

Neil, whose wife had left him, had called at Edwina Whitens home' at Tulketh Road, Preston, to try ;to'i trace her. ~ - - She had boasted about Ker relationship with-the actress, said Mr Morris. Neil had lost his temper, had taken out a penknife intending to threaten her but she had grabbed the blade and had cut her right hand. The wound needed four stitches. Mr Simon Newall, defending, said Neil had been shocked by what he had been told.

White, he said, had been born a female, but after hormone treatment was to all intents and purposes a male. He said that Neil and Moss were now reconciled.

Jailing Neil, of Wigan, Judge Mary Holt told him she accepted there had been severe provocation. Moss, who was not in court, is to appear before Wigan magistrates this week to be sentenced .on the charge of burgling a local club. ;

Her husband is serving a nine-month sentence for a similar offence.