A woman tricked a teenage girl into sex by hiding her long blonde hair under a hood and pretending to be a boy called George, a jury heard Monday.
Georgia Bilham, 21, from Cheshire, set up a fake Snapchat profile under the name ‘George Parry’ using a cartoon image of a blonde-haired man as her profile picture and began messaging the girl online, it was alleged.
They progressed to meeting up for sexual activity in ‘George’s’ car, and later at her home, where ‘he’ kept up the pretence and tried to dismiss her mounting suspicions that ‘he’ was really female, the court was told.
Each time, ‘George’ would ask her to remove her glasses, meaning she could not see his face properly.
The court heard the accuser had ‘very poor’ eyesight, with anything more than 5.5in (14cm) from her face being ‘blurred’.
The jury heard it meant that when she was without her spectacles, she was ‘essentially blind’.
Initially the defendant would remove her glasses, but as time went on she would take them off herself.
The crown’s case is that the defendant knew the girl was ‘blind without her glasses – and so took them from her’.
While ‘he’ regularly performed sex acts on the accuser, when she tried to lower ‘his’ Calvin Klein boxer shorts ‘he’ began shaking until she stopped, it was alleged.
‘George’ told her he was too afraid to take off his top or even lower the hood because he was involved with an Albanian criminal gang.
He also said he was self-conscious due to a scar from being stabbed, according to the prosecution.
She had begun messaging ‘him’ online four years earlier, but they only started meeting up after her previous relationship ended, she said, and began going out in ‘his’ car.’
He always had his coat with the hood up, high underneath the neck,’ she said.
Describing the incident when she first overheard the name Georgia when the car was stopped by police, she said she confronted ‘George’ afterwards.
‘I asked ”Yes or no – are you a girl?’
She eventually agreed to trust him, saying: ‘He never let me touch him – I thought I’d let him go at his own pace.
She would let George put ‘his’ hand up inside her top and feel her breasts, she said.
She described ‘George’ as ‘tiny’ with tanned skin and with ‘sort of hair’ above his lips.
Even in hot weather, she said ‘he’ kept all his clothes on when they were together.
‘I said ”You’re literally sweating”,’ she said.But when her mother told her ‘George is a girl’, she said she ‘burst into tears’.
She told the detective Bilham needed ‘serious help’.
Asked if she would have let herself be touched had she known that ‘George was Georgia’, she answered: ‘No, it makes me feel sick.”I’m not gay,’ she added.
However the accuser – who cannot be named for legal reasons – researched Bilham online and confronted ‘George’.
In a message, she wrote: ‘Just admit you’ve been caught out, I know more than enough now.’
Bilham allegedly deleted the Snapchat account under George’s name before writing back: ‘I don’t even dress like a lad, it just took over my life.’
After that, the girl contacted police and Bilham was arrested.
Bilham is charged with nine counts of sexual assault and eight counts of penetration, all of which she denies.
Bilham, who arrived at court dressed in a loose-fitting cardigan over a black strappy top, tight black trousers and trainers and with her long blonde hair down, began messaging her with the Snapchat profile George_132X, the court heard Monday.
‘George’ told her his parents were dead and that he was from Birmingham but was living near Chester and working for Albanian gangsters, Ms Pope said.
