Sobbing mother of teen girl ‘duped into sex by woman pretending to be a boy called George’ tells sex assault trial she only realised the truth after jotting down everything she knew about suspect in a ‘spider diagram’
- Georgia Bilham, 21, denies 17 sexual offences after allegedly deceiving teenager
- Court heard Bilham tricked 19-year-old by pretending to be a man called George
The mother of a teenager who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a woman posing as a man sobbed in court as she described working out the true gender of her daughter’s partner.
Georgia Bilham, 21, is charged with 17 sexual offences after allegedly deceiving a 19-year-old girl by pretending to be a man.
A trial at Chester Crown Court has heard she posed online as George Parry, a man from Birmingham, and wore a hood while meeting her short-sighted victim – claiming to be ‘paranoid’ because of involvement with Albanian gang members.
The complainant’s mother said after meeting ‘George’ she had a ‘really awful feeling’ in her stomach. Yesterday she revealed she drew a spider diagram to collate everything she knew about ‘him’.
It included ‘George’ using an emoji to cover his face on photos posted on Snapchat, a bracelet which was always in his car and a bank card in the name of Georgia Bilham which her daughter had found.
Defendant Georgia Bilham, 21, denies 17 sexual offences after allegedly deceiving a teenager
Court has heard Georgia Bilham tricked 19-year-old woman by pretending to be a man
Giving evidence yesterday, she said: ‘I was just like “oh my God, oh my God, it’s a girl, George is Georgia” and I felt completely sick.’
She was asked by judge Michael Leeming if she wanted to take a break after sobbing in the witness box. She opted to continue with her evidence, telling the court she spoke to her daughter the following day after her discovery.
She said her daughter told her ‘George’ could not be a woman because she ‘felt something in his pants’.
But she said the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, then spoke to someone else and discovered the person she had been seeing was Bilham.
Asked how it affected her, the victim’s mother said: ‘She felt sick, she wouldn’t eat, she wouldn’t sleep, she was in my bed. She was in crisis.’
The mother said ‘George’ had stayed at their house on about four occasions and she knew when he had stayed because the toilet seat was left up.
Georgia Bilham leaving Chester Crown Court yesterday
Earlier the court was told Bilham sent text messages, mocked up here, to the alleged victim
She said that on the last occasion she met ‘George’, he brought her a hot chocolate, wearing his hood up, and he was shaking as he put the drink down.
She said she later went into her daughter’s bedroom and the pair were sat in the room in ‘pitch black’ with the blinds closed.
She saw him for the last time when he went out to move his car, she told the court.
‘I was watching because I had this weird feeling in my tummy so I was watching to see how George would react with me,’ she said.
‘As soon as he saw me looking he pulled his hood over his face and put his head to the side.’
The woman said her daughter told her ‘George’ kept his hood up because of social anxiety.
She added: ‘I asked her if she was doing sexual things with George and she said yeah.
‘I said “with his hood up?” And she said “yeah” and I thought, “bit strange”.’
In a message sent after she had been confronted about her real identity, Bilham told the complainant she hated herself for what she had done and had wanted to end it but ‘didn’t know how’.
The court was shown text messages sent by Bilham to the alleged victim apologising for her deception.
She added: ‘I don’t even dress like a lad, it just took over my life.
‘It was [a] stupid, stupid, stupid mistake that shouldn’t have happened.’
Bilham, of Alpraham, Cheshire, denies nine sexual assaults and eight counts of assault by penetration.
The trial continues.
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