The victim, who remains anonymous, adamantly asserts that she did not provide consent for any sexual contact with another girl. She claims that she was deceived by Bilham, who masqueraded as a boy named George Parry.
Initially, Bilham assumed the online persona of "George" when she was approximately 15 or 16 years old. However, it was when she was 19 that the alleged sexual activity transpired, further complicating the already disturbing nature of the case.
From The Guardian:
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.
On Thursday, another young woman told the jury she too had met “George” online in 2021 when “he” added her on Snapchat.
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, 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.
Giving evidence without screens, Hughes told the jury George added her on Snapchat in 2021 and they started talking “all the time”, including on Facetime video calls.
She said he sent her a photograph purporting to be himself, but she never got a proper look at his face. She caught a fleeting “glimpse” the one time they met in person, in May 2021, when he picked her up at the McDonald’s where she worked in Abergele, north Wales.
The jury heard that George, who was wearing a tracksuit with his hood up, drove Hughes around the Great Orme, the headland by Llandudno.
“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.
It is astonishing to consider how she managed to deceive these young girls merely by donning a hood and altering her voice to sound deeper.
What an absolute creep...
