A woman named Georgia tricked a teenage girl into sex by hiding her long blonde hair under a hood and pretending to be a boy called George, a jury heard today.

Georgia Bilham, 21, set up a fake Snapchat profile under the name 'George Parry' using a cartoon image of a blond-haired man as her profile picture and began messaging her online, it was alleged.

They progressed to meeting up for sexual activity in 'George's' car, and later at her home, where 'he' kept up the pretence and tried to dismiss her mounting suspicions that 'he' was really female, the court was told.

Each time, 'George' would ask her to remove her glasses, meaning she could not see his face properly, jurors were told.

The court heard the victim had ‘very poor’ eyesight, with anything more than 5.5in (14cm) from her face being ‘blurred’. The jury were told it meant that when she was without her spectacles she was 'essentially blind’.

Initially ‘George’ would remove her glasses 'himself', but as time went on she would take them off herself.

The crown's case is ‘George knew’ that she was ‘blind without her glasses – and this is why he took them from her’.

While 'he' regularly performed sex acts on the accuser, when she tried to lower 'his' Calvin Klein boxer shorts 'he' began shaking until she stopped, it was alleged.

'George' told her he was too afraid to take off his top or even lower the hood because he was involved with an Albanian criminal gang.

Bilham is charged with nine counts of sexual assault and eight counts of penetration, all of which she denies.

So presumably the victim is 16-19, because there are no child-related charges.