Back behind bars, the woman who posed as a man to fool girl into sex
A WOMAN who used a sex toy and blindfold to trick a female student into believing she was in bed with a man was back behind bars last night.
Gayle Newland, 27, sobbed after being sentenced to sixand-a-half years in jail for what a judge described as a ‘disturbingly complex and astonishing deception’.
She was convicted at Manchester Crown Court last month of three assaults with a sex toy. It was a retrial granted following criticism of the judge’s summing up in her 2015 court case, when she was jailed for eight years.
Newland dropped to the floor of the dock and cried out ‘No’ as Judge David Stockdale QC sent her to jail for a second time. The court heard that Newland wooed her victim under the bogus Facebook persona of Kye Fortune, a mixed race basketball player from New York.
She spent hours chatting online and over the phone to win the trust of the woman, who cannot be identified but is in her 20s.
She told her it was impossible for them to meet because ‘Kye’ spent most of his time in hospital where he was being treated for a brain tumour. When the pair finally met, Newland suggested the student wear a blindfold.
She bought a £20 sex toy online, wore a swimsuit and bandaged her chest to conceal her breasts during their sex sessions.
It was only after one encounter in 2013 that the woman realised her lover might be a woman and pulled off Newland’s mask. Newland is the daughter of a con- struction firm boss, who lived in a £500,000 property in the Wirral village of Willaston.
She graduated in marketing and worked as a personal trainer after attending £12,800-a-year Queen’s School in Chester.
Her barrister, Nigel Powers QC, offered little mitigation but said Newland had since been diagnosed with a range of mental disorders. She will have to sign the sex offender register for life.