A girl who pretended to be a person to sexually assault a severely short-sighted teenager is going through jail.
Georgia Bilham, 21, was convicted of a single depend of sexual assault by kissing at Chester Crown Court on Wednesday.
Jurors cleared her of 16 additional allegations after deliberating for 3 hours following an eight-day trial.
However, deferring her sentence till subsequent month, Judge Michael Leeming warned Bilham: “I am going to adjourn sentence for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.
“It shouldn’t be taken by you as a sign of a non-custodial sentence – all choices are open.”
Bilham, from Alpraham, Cheshire, showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered.
The court heard Bilham created an online Snapchat persona in the name of George Parry to trick the victim, 19, into believing she was a man.
“George” always wore a hood over his head and claimed to be “paranoid” after getting involved with Albanian gangsters.
Giving evidence, the victim’s mother said her daughter explained she was seeing someone who had “social anxiousness”.
After they met for the first time, Bilham revealed the victim messaged her to say “There’s one thing bizarre about you” and blocked her on the social media app.
They had a “love-hate relationship” online which became “poisonous” at times, jurors heard.
Bilham said she believed her lies were exposed after crashing her mother’s car into a hedge while out for a drive with her teenage victim on 11 May, 2021.
She was convicted of sexually assault by kissing the 19-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, on that evening.
The defendant told jurors she thought the police had blown her cover after checking her driving licence.
She mentioned: “I think they told her I was female. It was not George, it was Georgia.”
Bilham admitted being caught in a “web of lies” however denied getting a “buzz” out of duping {the teenager}.
She informed the courtroom she was “a bit of a tomboy” when she was youthful and though she by no means needed to vary gender, she had questioned her sexuality.
After her dad and mom break up when she was a teen, she mentioned she had a tough relationship along with her mom – who would “not be happy” if she was in a same-sex relationship.
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When requested why she arrange the pretend Snapchat account, Bilham mentioned: “I just was not happy in myself” and described it as “an escape”.
“I was not confident in myself,” she added.
“It was a stupid thing to do. It was a way of not being me.”
Bilham denied 9 sexual assaults and eight counts of assault by penetration, between May and August 2021.
She should signal the intercourse offenders’ register and is because of be sentenced on 19 July.
Source: information.sky.com”