Woman who used fake penis to fool friend into sex is jailed
A WOMAN who used a fake penis to dupe her girlfriend into believing she was actually a man was jailed for six and a half years, as the judge told her “sometimes truth is stranger than fiction”.
Gayle Newland cried in the dock as she was sent to jail yesterday for tricking the woman by making her wear a blindfold when they met and by using a prosthetic penis during sex.
The 27-year-old created a “disturbingly complex” online persona to achieve her own “bizarre sexual satisfaction” and continued the deception over a two-year period.
Judge David Stockdale QC told her she had shown “an extraordinary degree of cunning and a chilling desire” to manipulate and control the lives of others. “It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or a deceit so damaging to the victim on its discovery,” he said.
Her victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “She has created a prison for the joyful persona I once had. I can only hope I can move on fully and not do the time with her.”
Newland, of Willaston, Cheshire, had been jailed for eight years in November 2015 after she was convicted of the same offences at Chester Crown Court, but that conviction was quashed in the Court of Appeal last December.
At the retrial at Manchester Crown Court, she was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and cleared of a fourth count. She was also jailed for defrauding her employer of £9,000.
Newland created a fictional Facebook profile, pretending to be a half-filipino, half-latino man called Kye Fortune, using an American man’s photographs and videos. She had told her victim, also in her 20s, to wear a blindfold at all times when they met at the victim’s flat.
She spent “hundreds” of hours talking on the telephone to her friend as Kye, telling her “emotionally vulnerable” victim “he” was undergoing treatment for cancer and was paranoid about his physical appearance.