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Sex attacker Gayle Newland who posed as man jailed Prosthetic penis sex attacker Gayle Newland jailed
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A woman has been jailed for pretending to be a man for more than two years to trick her female friend into sex. A woman who wore a prosthetic penis and tricked her blindfolded friend into sex has been jailed.
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 an online persona pretending to be a man and continued the deceit for two years.
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 found her guilty of committing sexual assault on three occasions, using a prosthetic penis without her victim's consent.
She was jailed for a total of six-and-a-half years. She was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for six-and-a-half years.
Newland was originally jailed for eight years in November 2015 after she was convicted of the same offences.
But the conviction was later quashed on the grounds that the trial judge's summing up of the case was not fair and balanced.
Fake Facebook profile
During the retrial the victim, who gave evidence behind a curtain, told the court she was persuaded by the defendant to wear a blindfold at all times when they met.
She said she only found out she was having sex with a woman - rather than a man - when she finally took off her mask.
The victim told the court she thought she was having sex with Kye Fortune - a fake Facebook profile Newland created when she was 15 years old, using an American man's photographs and videos.
She said: "There was no point until the day I took the blindfold off that I thought for one second that a woman was the person behind this."
The defendant received concurrent terms of six years for three counts of sexual assault in 2013.
She was jailed for an extra six months for defrauding her former employers - an internet advertising agency - of £9,000 by creating fake client profiles between March 2014 and September 2015.
The Recorder of Manchester Judge David Stockdale QC lifted reporting restrictions on the fraud earlier.
The retrial jury was not told of the fraud conviction until it returned its verdicts.