A woman has been found guilty of sexual assault after tricking a female friend into having sex using a fake penis.
Gayle Newland, 27, from Cheshire, used an online persona, Kye Fortune, to trick the victim into having sex without consent.
The 'astonishing deception' went on for over two years.
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Newland was given an eight-year sentence in November 2015 for the same offences, but this conviction was quashed last year and the judge demanded a retrial for the case after it was ruled the original judge had not been balanced and fair in his summing up.
However, at a retrial at Manchester Crown Court the jury found her guilty of sexual assault.
The plot involved Newland asking the victim to wear a blindfold each time they met up and had sex.
The victim also told the court that Newland wore a swimming suit and bandages to disguise her breasts, as well as a prosthetic penis and put on a deep voice to trick her.
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She told the court she only found out she was having sex with Newland when she finally took off her mask.
In court, Newland claimed the victim knew that she was 'Kye', a character she created using a fake Facebook page containing photos of an American man, and that it was all part of a role play.
She told the court the victim wasn't ordered to wear a mask or blindfold on the 10 occasions the pair met up.
The court heard the pair had spent over 100 hours together, as well as time chatting on the phone.
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Prosecutor Simon Medland QC told the jury: "This manipulative, deceitful and very crafty young woman went to such astonishing lengths to control the complainant's life and make her do the things the defendant wanted her to do."
Three other women have since come forward to say they had also been fooled by 'Kye'. One woman said she only became suspicious when she spotted a house that 'looked American' in the background of 'his' photos.
Sources: Independent; Mirror
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