Woman, 21, ‘tricked short-sighted teen girl into sex by hiding long blonde hair under a hood and pretending to be a boy called George’
A WOMAN tricked a teenage girl into sex by hiding her long blonde hair under a hood and pretending to be a boy, a jury heard yesterday.
Georgia Bilham, 21, allegedly set up a Snapchat profile under the name ‘George Parry’ using a cartoon of a blond man as her profile picture and began messaging the girl online.
They progressed to meeting up for sexual activity in George’s car, with Bilham taking away the short- sighted girl’s glasses, leaving her ‘essentially blind’, Chester Crown Court heard. After dismissing the girl’s suspicions that ‘ he’ was really female, Bilham began sleeping with her, insisting on keeping ‘his’ hood up at all times.
Bilham regularly performed sex acts on the girl but when she tried to lower ‘his’ Calvin Klein boxer shorts ‘he’ began shaking until she stopped, it was alleged.
Bilham told her ‘he’ was too afraid to take off ‘his’ top or even lower the hood because ‘he’ was working for an Albanian criminal gang. Bilham also claimed to be self-conscious due to a scar from being stabbed, according to prosecutors.
The accuser, whose identity is protected by law, finally researched Bilham online and told her: ‘Just admit you’ve been caught out, I know more than enough now.’
Bilham allegedly deleted the Snapchat account before writing back: ‘I don’t even dress like a lad, it just took over my life.’
Bilham, from Cheshire, is charged with nine counts of sexual assault and eight counts of penetration, all of which she denies.
Anna Pope, prosecuting, said the accuser did not fully consent to sexual activity because she believed Bilham was a man.
Whether Bilham was ‘attracted’ to the alleged victim ‘or whether she gained some form of buzz from duping another woman’ was unknown, she said.
Bilham began messaging the girl with the Snapchat profile George_ 132X, the court heard.
In 2021 they began meeting up, with Bilham wearing boys’ clothes with a hood tightly tied over her head, Ms Pope said.
This meant the girl, who was then in her late teens, couldn’t see ‘the true length of Georgia’s hair’. She said Bilham knew that she was ‘blind without her glasses – and this is why “he” took them from her’.
They first kissed on May 10, 2021, but later that evening the car they were in became stuck and Bilham started to ‘panic’ when police arrived at the scene, Ms Pope said. As officers checked Bilham’s details, the girl overheard them using the name ‘Georgia’.
Afterward she confronted Bilham and demanded: ‘Are you a girl?’ But she said Bilham denied it, saying it was a fake licence.
Even when staying the night at her family home, Bilham would insist on staying hooded, she added. Through every sexual act she believed her partner ‘was a man called George from Birmingham, not a woman called Georgia from Chester’, Ms Pope said.
On one occasion the girl found a bank card under the name Georgia Bilham, jurors were told.
But instead of suspecting that George was in fact Georgia, she instead accused Bilham of seeing someone called Georgia.
Ms Pope said this showed she believed George and Bilham were two separate people. It was only after she insisted that Bilham
‘Blind without her glasses’
meet her mother, who was quickly suspicious, that she began to realise that she was being deceived, jurors heard.
Interviewed by police, Bilham made no comment. The jury was
played the alleged victim’s police interview during which she told detectives it was ‘sick’ that Bilham posed as George, adding that she needed ‘serious help’.
The trial continues.