Woman, 21, tricked teenage girl into sex, court hears

A lady tricked a teenage woman into intercourse by hiding her lengthy blonde hair below a hood and pretending to be a boy referred to as George, a jury heard at this time.

Georgia Bilham, 21, from Cheshire, arrange a pretend Snapchat profile below the title ‘George Parry’ utilizing a cartoon picture of a blonde-haired man as her profile image and started messaging the woman on-line, it was alleged.

They progressed to assembly up for sexual exercise in ‘George’s’ automobile, and later at her residence, the place ‘he’ saved up the pretence and tried to dismiss her mounting suspicions that ‘he’ was actually feminine, the courtroom was informed.

Every time, ‘George’ would ask her to take away her glasses, which means she couldn’t see his face correctly. 

The courtroom heard the accuser had ‘very poor’ eyesight, with something greater than 5.5in (14cm) from her face being ‘blurred’. The jury heard it meant that when she was with out her spectacles, she was ‘primarily blind’.

Initially the defendant would take away her glasses, however as time went on she would take them off herself.

The crown’s case is that the defendant knew the woman was ‘blind with out her glasses – and so took them from her’.

Whereas ‘he’ commonly carried out intercourse acts on the accuser, when she tried to decrease ‘his’ Calvin Klein boxer shorts ‘he’ started shaking till she stopped, it was alleged.

‘George’ informed her he was too afraid to take off his prime and even decrease the hood as a result of he was concerned with an Albanian felony gang.

He additionally mentioned he was self-conscious as a consequence of a scar from being stabbed, in keeping with the prosecution.

She had begun messaging ‘him’ on-line 4 years earlier, however they solely began assembly up after her earlier relationship ended, she mentioned, and started going out in ‘his’ automobile.

‘He all the time had his coat with the hood up, excessive beneath the neck,’ she mentioned.

Describing the incident when she first overheard the title Georgia when the automobile was stopped by police, she mentioned she confronted ‘George’ afterwards.

‘I requested ”Sure or no – are you a woman?”

She finally agreed to belief him, saying: ‘He by no means let me contact him – I assumed I might let him go at his personal tempo.’

She would let George put ‘his’ hand up inside her prime and really feel her breasts, she mentioned.

She described ‘George’ as ‘tiny’ with tanned pores and skin and with ‘type of hair’ above his lips.

Even in sizzling climate, she mentioned ‘he’ saved all his garments on once they have been collectively.

‘I mentioned ”You are actually sweating”,’ she mentioned.

However when her mom informed her ‘George is a woman’, she mentioned she ‘burst into tears’.

She informed the detective Bilham wanted ‘severe assist’.

Requested if she would have let herself be touched had she recognized that ‘George was Georgia’, she answered: ‘No, it makes me really feel sick.’

‘I am not homosexual,’ she added.

Nonetheless the accuser – who can’t be named for authorized causes – lastly learnt the reality after researching Bilham on-line and confronted ‘George’.

In a message, she wrote: ‘Simply admit you’ve got been caught out, I do know greater than sufficient now.’

Bilham allegedly deleted the Snapchat account below George’s title earlier than writing again: ‘I do not even gown like a lad, it simply took over my life.’

After that, the woman contacted police and Bilham was arrested.

Opening her trial at Chester Crown Courtroom, Anna Pope, prosecuting, mentioned the accuser was not totally consenting to sexual exercise as a result of she believed ‘George’ was actually male.

Whether or not Bilham was ‘attracted’ to the alleged sufferer ‘or whether or not she gained some type of buzz from duping one other lady into believing she was speaking each verbally and bodily with a person, shouldn’t be recognized,’ she added.

However she mentioned the ‘actual problem’ was whether or not the complainant ‘believed when she was partaking in sexual exercise that she was doing so with a person’.

Bilham is charged with 9 counts of sexual assault and eight counts of penetration, all of which she denies.

Bilham, who arrived at courtroom wearing a loose-fitting cardigan over a black strappy prime, tight black trousers and trainers and together with her lengthy blonde hair down, started messaging her with the Snapchat profile George_132X, the courtroom heard at this time.

‘George’ informed her his dad and mom have been useless and that he was from Birmingham however was residing close to Chester and dealing for Albanian gangsters, Ms Pope mentioned.

In 2021 they started assembly up on native railway tracks the place Bilham can be ‘carrying boys’ garments’, Ms Pope mentioned.

‘He had a hood pulled up over his head.’

She added that this ‘was to be a function of all of their conferences’, with ‘George’ retaining ‘his’ hood up so the woman couldn’t see ‘the true size of Georgia’s hair’.

The woman started to really feel ‘an attraction’ to ‘George’, who she believed was a younger man, Ms Pope mentioned, and ‘he’ would decide her up in ‘his’ automobile and take her for a drive.

As well as, the courtroom heard ‘George’ spoke like a person in a Birmingham accent – and  jurors have been informed they’d be performed a voice word that Bilham had despatched her through Snapchat within the guise of his ‘alter ego’ of George.

They first kissed on Could 10, 2021, however later that night the automobile grew to become caught and ‘George’ began to ‘panic’ when police arrived on the scene and advised they make a run for it, Ms Pope mentioned.

‘We are saying that Georgia Bilham was proper to be involved that her true identification can be revealed, as a result of that night time, it very almost was,’ she mentioned.

Officers took the defendant to their patrol automobile to verify ‘his’ particulars, and the woman overheard them utilizing the title ‘Georgia’.

Afterwards she ‘confronted’ the defendant and ‘demanded an evidence’, the prosecuting barrister mentioned, asking: ‘Are you a woman?’

She mentioned ‘George’ denied it, telling her: ‘It is a pretend licence, ‘cos I haven’t got one, that is why I informed you to run.’

She gave ‘him’ till the following morning to show to her that he was not feminine, however ‘George’ was unable to take action.

Nonetheless ‘he’ despatched her a ‘selfie’ displaying a ‘younger man with blonde hair and no prime on,’ Ms Pope mentioned.

Later ‘George’ despatched her a message, saying: ‘On my approach again to Brum with Slitta, he picked up kilos and determined to get in a police chase.’

Ms Pope informed jurors this was ‘maintaining the pretence of being George from Birmingham with felony associates’.

The defendant additionally informed her the rationale ‘he’ all the time had his hood up ‘was linked to his involvement with the Albanian gang members’, and was ‘paranoid about being adopted’.

‘We are saying that, regardless of her preliminary issues, she trusted him, and believed that what he was telling her about his identification was true,’ Ms Pope mentioned.

On a later automobile journey they went to the Horseshoe Move, a magnificence spot in North Wales, the place after pulling over she allowed ‘George’ to hold out intercourse acts on her, jurors have been informed.

‘She was capable of see that George was carrying Calvin Klein boxer shorts,’ Ms Pope mentioned.

She ‘tried to take away his decrease clothes in order that she too might sexually contact him’, however as she pulled them ‘to simply by the hip space’, George ‘stopped’, lay on prime of her ‘and began to shake’.

Considering he was ‘nervous’ and will have been sexually abused when ‘he’ was youthful, she ‘didn’t push it’.

The prosecution case is that if she had ‘had lowered his tracksuit bottoms and boxer shorts, she would have discovered that George Parry was the truth is Georgia Bilham,’ Ms Pope informed jurors.

Over the following few weeks, their intimacy progressed, the courtroom heard, however to the woman’s ‘frustration’, the defendant wouldn’t let her carry out intercourse acts on ‘him’.

Ms Pope mentioned: ‘George typically gave excuses, similar to, for instance, that he had been stabbed, and due to the scar, he felt self-conscious and did not wish to be touched.’

He started staying over at her household residence however continued to put on tracksuit bottoms and a prime with the hood up, she mentioned.

He was ‘not as relaxed’ as once they have been within the automobile because of the ‘a lot better threat’ that somebody would realise ‘he’ was not who ‘he’ claimed to be, she added.

Nonetheless her mom grew to become suspicious after assembly ‘George’ and informed her she was being deceived.

On one event, after ‘George’ stopped to purchase petrol and went to pay, the woman – who had stayed within the automobile – discovered a financial institution card within the title of Georgia Bilham, jurors have been informed.

However as an alternative of suspecting that ‘George was the truth is Georgia’, she as an alternative ‘confronted him’ within the perception that ‘he’ was seeing somebody referred to as Georgia Bilham, Ms Pope mentioned.

‘George’ informed her he had borrowed Georgia Bilham’s financial institution card to pay his street tax, the courtroom heard.

The woman even appeared up Georgia Bilham’s Fb profile – on which she confirmed her true identification – however continued to query whether or not ‘George’ was in a relationship together with her, the prosecutor mentioned.

Ms Pope mentioned this confirmed it was ‘very clear’ that at that stage she believed that ‘George’ and Bilham ‘have been two separate individuals’.

In August 2021 ‘George’ stayed at her residence and woke her up within the night time wanting her to ‘sit on his face’, she mentioned – nonetheless retaining his hooded prime on.

She consented, Ms Pope mentioned – ‘believing, as she had all through each sexual act, that the one who was performing a intercourse act on her was a person referred to as George from Birmingham, not a girl referred to as Georgia from Chester’.

However once they went to a neighborhood Starbucks the next day, the woman messaged her mom – who had not but ‘correctly’ met ‘George’ – to ask if she needed them to get her a drink.

She mentioned she did, and on their return the woman informed ‘George’ he ought to give it to her mom ‘himself’ as they hadn’t spoken earlier than past ‘Howdy’, Ms Pope mentioned.

After protesting, ‘he’ finally agreed – his hand ‘shaking – a lot in order that she spilt a number of the drink as she was placing it on the desk’.

Capable of see ‘George’ extra clearly than her daughter, she was capable of understand the reality, Ms Pope mentioned.

Not solely did she not consider that ‘George’ was the particular person within the images her daughter had been despatched, however she ‘didn’t settle for that ‘George’ was a person in any respect,’ she added.

After telling her daughter of her suspicions, the woman examined Georgia Bilham’s Fb web page.

As she requested extra questions, she ‘started to understand that the persona of George Parry was completely pretend, created by the true George, Georgia Bilham’.

Ms Pope mentioned the accuser was ‘clear that she didn’t consent to have sexual exercise with a girl’.

‘When she agreed to have sexual exercise with George Parry, it was on the premise that George Parry was a male,’ she added.

In consequence, she lastly confronted ‘George’ on August 19 earlier than contacting Bilham’s father and forwarding the messages ‘he’ had despatched her.

Interviewed by police, Bilham answered ‘no remark’ to every query.

Jurors have been informed that Bilham’s defence is more likely to be that whereas sexual exercise did happen as alleged, the problem for them to resolve was whether or not the woman knew ‘George’ was actually feminine.

Later jurors have been performed the alleged sufferer’s police interview throughout which she informed detectives it was ‘sick’ that Bilham posed as George, including that she wanted ‘severe assist’.

The trial continues.