The court heard that she had seen the photographs Ms Bilham had sent her daughter and did not believe it was the same person. The victim overheard officers refer to the name Georgia, but when she confronted her and asked about her true gender, she was told it was a fake driving licence.Īs the victim’s suspicions grew, however, she asked the defendant to prove his identity.īut Ms Bilham claimed he did not have a passport and simply sent her selfie-style photographs of a young man with blonde hair and no top on.īut it is alleged Ms Bilham’s true identity was revealed in August 2021 when, posing as George, she met the victim’s mother for the first time.
Ms Pope suggested Ms Bilham had “panicked” because she feared her true identity would be revealed. The court heard the defendant would regularly pick the victim up in her car but on one occasion had been approached by police after being involved in an accident. Ms Pope said it wasn’t known if Ms Bilham was sexually attracted to the woman or whether she “gained some form of buzz from duping” her. The victim grew frustrated that the defendant showed an unwillingness to be touched intimately and often “gave excuses”. She was described as being short-sighted with anything more than 14cm from her face being blurred, meaning that without her glasses she was “essentially blind”.ĭespite the relationship becoming sexual, the jury was told that when they spent the night together the defendant would keep her clothes on, even in bed.
The jury heard how the alleged victim’s eyesight is “very poor”. The court was told that the victim was short-sighted and whenever they were together the defendant would remove her glasses for much of the time, so she could not see Ms Bilham clearly. Posing as George Parry, Ms Bilham claimed to have links with an Albanian crime gang in order to support the deception. The pair began messaging one another online before eventually meeting up in person when the defendant always wore boy’s clothing and kept her hood pulled up. The jury heard how the defendant’s online profile had the name “George_132” and featured a cartoon image of a blonde man with sunglasses.
“And that means, we say, that all the sexual activity that took place between those two people, was based on a false pretence – and so did not involve true consent.” Opening the case for the prosecution, Anna Pope, said: “It is a case about this defendant deceiving someone that she was, in fact, a young man. The deception was only discovered when the woman’s mother became suspicious and told her daughter she did not believe her boyfriend was a man.Ĭhester Crown Court heard that while the victim had agreed to sexual activity with “George”, she had not consented to sexual activity with the defendant, who is charged with 17 offences, including sexual assault and assault by penetration. Georgia Bilham, 21, is accused of renaming herself “George Parry”, disguising herself in men’s clothing and removing her victim’s glasses whenever they were together, to fool her into believing she was in a genuine heterosexual relationship. A woman posed as a man in order to deceive her short-sighted female victim into having a sexual relationship, a court has heard.
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