Girl who posed as boy for sex duped another girl, court hears

A teenage girl who pretended to be a boy in order to engage in sexual activity with a severely shortsighted girl also duped a second teenager, a court has heard.

Georgia Bilham, 21, is on trial at Chester crown court for 17 sexual offences after allegedly deceiving a teenage girl into sex by pretending to be a boy.

The alleged victim, who cannot be named, insists she did not consent to having sexual contact with a girl. She says she believed Bilham was a boy called George Parry. Bilham was 15 or 16 when she first posed as “George” online, but 19 when the alleged sexual activity took place.

Whenever the pair met, Bilham, from Chester, disguised her long blonde hair by keeping her hood up, even 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.

Yesterday, another young woman told the jury she too had met “George” online in 2021. Nikita Hughes, 22, said she was 16 when they first started chatting. She said she called him Brummy George because of his accent and met him just once. She told police there was something “strange” about George that “I couldn’t put my finger on”, but she had no idea he was a girl. The court heard from an optomefrom Specsavers who gave the alleged victim an eye test in 2020. Katriona Holding said the complainant was so shortsighted she would be classed as blind without her glasses. Bilham denies nine counts of sexual assault and eight counts of assault by penetration. The trial continues.