The now 27-year-old was found guilty of three sexual assaults and jailed for eight years after a dramatic trial in September 2015, but had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in October, 2016.
In an extraordinary two-year deception, Newland also befriended the victim, who never suspected her friend Gayle and her ‘fiancé’ Kye were the same person, even after around 10 sexual encounters involving the strap-on sex toy. In a case which made international headlines, Gayle Newland created the ‘disturbingly complex’ online persona of a man named Kye Fortune to seduce the woman before using bandages, a woolly hat and a swimsuit to hide her body.
A woman has been found guilty of duping her female friend into wearing a blindfold and sexually assaulting her with a fake penis following a retrial.
