Gayle Newland is on trial at Chester Crown Court accused of sexual assault after allegedly posing as a man
A woman tricked her
friend into having sex with her by posing as a man and persuading her
to wear a blindfold in the bedroom, a court has heard.
Gayle
Newland, 25, won the woman's trust using a fake online persona, and the
pair struck up a two-year relationship, jurors were told.
The alleged victim told Chester Crown Court she had believed she was having sex with a man.
Ms Newland, of Willaston, Cheshire, denies five counts of sexual assault.
The pair met in 2011 after Newland set up a bogus Facebook account under the name Kye Fortune, the court was told.
'Truth revealed'
"Kye"
had told her he was in hospital, she said, and was not well enough to
see her after he was treated for a car accident and a brain tumour.
But
the pair spoke frequently on the phone, the court heard, and eventually
arranged to meet for sex at a Chester hotel on the condition the woman
wear a blindfold.
She said Kye was waiting in the bathroom when she entered the room and bed was covered with rose petals and Hello Kitty bears.
The pair then had sex, the court heard.
During
interviews, the woman told police Kye asked her to wear a blindfold
because he was "anxious about the way he looked" and "could not walk
properly" due to nerve and muscle damage.
Eventually Kye visited the woman's flat and the truth was revealed, the court heard.
Describing
the pair's final sexual encounter, she said she had been shocked when
she removed the blindfold and saw Ms Newland instead of Kye.
"Gayle was just standing there. I just couldn't believe it," she said.
She
told the interviewing officer: "I couldn't believe that person would
want to do something like this to me... these last two years had
fabricated this world around me.
"He - Gayle - pulled the wool over my eyes."
The trial continues.
Title : Willaston woman posed as man to trick female friend into sex, court hears
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