The alleged victim, who can’t be named, met Bilham when she was approximately 15 or 16 when she first posed as “George” online. Although, Bilham was 19 when the alleged sexual activity took place.

[The victim] insists she did not consent to have sexual contact with a girl. She says she believed Bilham was a boy called George Parry who had anxiety and claimed to be “paranoid” because he was mixed up with Albanian drug dealers.

Whenever the pair met, Bilham, who is from Chester, disguised her long blond hair by keeping her hood up, even when in bed. She wore male clothing and put on a deep voice with a Birmingham accent, the court heard, and always took her alleged victim’s glasses off as soon as they met.

Per the court proceedings, an optometrist from Specsavers gave the alleged victim an eye test in January 2020 and found that the complainant was “so shortsighted she would be classed as blind without her glasses”.

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The New York Post notes prosecutor Anna Pope saying in her opening statement that “It is a case about this defendant deceiving someone that she was, in fact, a young man”, adding:

“And that means, we say, that all the sexual activity that took place between those two people, was based on a false pretense — and so did not involve true consent,” she told the jury.

Bilham is facing charges of assault by penetration, as well.

The ultimate catfisher also managed to wrangle another female victim into a date, although they didn’t have sex. Nikita Hughes, 22, said she was 16 when she first started chatting to “George” online in 2021 when “he” added her on Snapchat:

She said she called him Brummy George because of his accent and met him just once, after a failed attempt to meet him in Nando’s in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre while on a college trip.

She told police there was something “strange” about George that “I couldn’t put my finger on”, but had no idea he was a girl.

She said she never really got a good look at Goerge’s face, only catching a fleeting “glimpse” the one time they met in person, in May 2021:

“I caught a glimpse of him at one point, then my face got pushed away,” she said, explaining that George pushed her away. She considered it “strange behaviour” and never saw him again.

The ruse was slowly unfolding for Goerge’s first victim (the girl with the glasses) when she tried to touch Goerge intimately, and when she saw a female name on Goerge’s driver’s license:

During sex, the teen tried to remove Bilham’s Calvin Klein boxer shorts, but the suspect reacted by shaking and refusing to disrobe because “he” was self-conscious about stabbing scars, the London Times said. The alleged victim reportedly became frustrated that her lover “gave excuses” and appeared to be unwilling to be touched intimately.

…When the teen asked her about the female name, Bilham told her it was a fake driver’s license, the Telegraph reported. But the victim grew increasingly suspicious and asked her lover for proof of identity.

The jig was finally up for good sometime later, when the victim introduced Bilham to her mother, who immediately suspected that the boyfriend was not actually a man.

The court is about to determine whether or not the victim really didn’t know that Bilham was a girl that whole time.