Fake penis sex attacker Gayle Newland in court outburst after being convicted again of using £20 sex toy and blindfold to trick female pal into sex by posing as a man
Newland created a 'disturbingly complex' online persona
FAKE penis sex attacker Gayle Newland has been found guilty of using a £20 sex toy and blindfold to trick a female pal into sex by posing as a man.
Newland has been convicted of impersonating a man over two years in what has been described as an "astonishing deception" to trick a pal into sex, following a retrial at Manchester Crown Court.
Newland, 27, of Willaston, Cheshire, created a "disturbingly complex" online persona to achieve her own "bizarre sexual satisfaction", the court was told.
The retrial jury found her guilty sexual assaulting a pal by using a strap-on sex toy without her consent in 2013.
As she broke down in the dock while the verdict was delivered, the sobbing Newland said: "I can't go back to jail".
The court heard how she had sex with the victim while pretending to be a man called Kye Fortune, a character she had invented and managed to maintain by insisting she wear a blindfold.
The former marketing manager had seduced her pal online using her male alter-ego, who she said was half-Filipino, half-Latino.
She told her victim "Kye" was insecure about his appearance after receiving treatment for a brain tumour.
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The complainant told the court she agreed to wear the mask and a scarf because she was so in love.
Her victim finally discovered the truth when she pulled off her face mask during sex.
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."
Newland had insisted the woman knew her gender all along and they were taking part in a mutual fantasy.
She told the court she had created the Facebook profile of Kye - using an American man's photographs and videos - at the age of 15, because she found it difficult to talk to girls in person.
After her first conviction in November 2015 Newland had been sentenced to eight years in jail, but it was overturned in 2016 with an appeal judge ordering a retrial.
Newland's accuser said in January 2015 that she had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression following the assaults.
She stated: "I feel like a shell of a person that I potentially could be. Relationships with partners and colleagues are non-existent.
"I am no longer the bubbly, fun-loving character I used to be."
She added that she also feared making eye contact with strangers.
But she later admitted that she slept with a man several weeks after she made her initial police complaint in the summer of 2013 after saying the ordeal had made her feel "stupid" and ";reckless".
Newland's mum wept in the public gallery as the verdict was delivered.
When the defendant was told by the judge she would have to sign the Sex Offender Register she repeatedly said: "Sex Offender?"
Reports will be drawn up before Newland is sentenced.
NEWLAND'S ALTER-EGO Ex-private schoolgirl duped three other women online into believing she was a half-Filipino half-Latino man named Kye Fortune
The retrial heard that at least three other women had spoken to Newland thinking she was a half-Filipino half-Latino man named Kye Fortune - but she did not meet them.
One of the women woman spoke to he over the phone and online for a five-year period, before she eventually worked out she had been deceived.
In a statement read to Newland's sex assault retrial at Manchester Crown Court, the woman said she received a Facebook friend request from the "quite good looking" Kye Carlo Fortune in 2009.
Phone numbers were exchanged soon after and she noticed his voice was quite high-pitched.
"He said he was not blessed with a deep voice," she said.
The pair would Facetime and the woman told the court: "My face was visible on the screen but he never showed me his face on screen. I would say to him 'it's called Facetime, show me your face', but he said it made him too anxious and to stop pressuring him.
"Sometimes Kye would Facetime me while walking the dog. The dog was called Gypsy."
She said in October 2013 that Kye said how his friend had fallen in love with him and he had rejected her.
Kye told him the woman was "bitter", had "plotted against him" and the police had been to his house, she said.
She said that in April 2014 she was looking at some photographs that Kye had posted or had been tagged in.
She said: "I recognised Kye's dog Gypsy. Kye was not in the picture. The photo on the profile was of a girl called Gayle Newland."
She decided to ring Kye as an "unknown number" and asked to speak to Gayle Newland.
"The same voice said 'speaking'," she said.
"I knew that Gayle Newland had been pretending to be Kye Fortune. I hung up immediately."
Newland told the court: "They didn't know me as Gayle. That was my coping mechanism at the end of the day. I don't expect you to understand. My coping mechanism could have been a lot worse."
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