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| Gayle Newland: Sex attacker who posed as man found guilty | Gayle Newland: Sex attacker who posed as man found guilty |
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| A woman has been convicted of impersonating a man for more than two years in an "astonishing deception" to trick her female friend into sex. | A woman has been convicted of impersonating a man for more than two years in an "astonishing deception" to trick her female friend into sex. |
| Gayle Newland, 27, of Willaston, Cheshire, created a "disturbingly complex" online persona to achieve her own "bizarre sexual satisfaction". | Gayle Newland, 27, of Willaston, Cheshire, created a "disturbingly complex" online persona to achieve her own "bizarre sexual satisfaction". |
| A retrial jury at Manchester Crown Court found her guilty of committing sexual assault by using a prosthetic penis without her victim's consent. | A retrial jury at Manchester Crown Court found her guilty of committing sexual assault by using a prosthetic penis without her victim's consent. |
| She will be sentenced on 20 July. | |
| The Recorder of Manchester, Judge David Stockdale QC, granted Newland bail ahead of sentencing but told her the "overwhelming likelihood" was that she would receive "a significant immediate custodial sentence". | |
| Newland was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and cleared of a fourth count. | |
| The jury reached majority verdicts of 11-1 after deliberating for 17 hours and 25 minutes. | |
| Newland said she created the Facebook profile of Kye Fortune - using an American man's photographs and videos - at the age of 15, because she found it difficult to talk to girls in person. |