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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aneesa Ahmed

Shortsighted woman tells sexual assault trial she was tricked by girl posing as boy

Georgia Bilham
Georgia Bilham insists the complainant knew she was really female. Photograph: Steve Allen/PA

A shortsighted woman said she was “shocked and disgusted” to find out that the boy she’d been dating as a teenager turned out to be a girl in disguise.

Georgia Bilham, 21, is accused of posing online as a boy named George Parry during an on-off relationship with a girl she met on Snapchat in 2017. A jury at Chester crown court has heard that Bilham, from Cheshire, wore a hood while meeting her shortsighted victim, claiming to be “paranoid” because of an involvement with Albanian gang members.

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