Fake penis sex attacker Gayle Newland is appealing her eight-year jail term, the ECHO can reveal.
The ex-private schoolgirl was jailed after pretending she was a man to trick her unwitting partner into having sex.
Earlier this week, the ECHO detailed how the 25-year-old was appealing her sexual assault conviction, during which she kept her true female gender secret.
Now, the marketing manager has lodged another court bid, to try and reduce her eight years behind bars.
Newland adopted an alter-ego of ‘Kye Fortune’, and hid her identity by flattening her breasts with tape, wearing a swimsuit to smooth her curves and deepening her voice.
She coaxed the woman to put on a blindfold when together, and had sex up ten times, before the victim, also 25, ripped off her mask to see Newland standing over her, wearing a prosthetic penis.
Newland, from Willaston, near Neston, has lodged the appeal against her sentence with Chester Crown Court, where her trial and jailing took place.
It will be then registered with the High Court in London.
Newland, who told her lover that ‘Kye’ was insecure about ‘his’ looks following supposed life-saving brain surgery, was visibly shaken by her eight year sentence.
She cried in the courtroom as she was led from the dock to the cells.
Gayle Newland
Newland will have her case considered by a single judge at London’s Court of Appeal.
If that finds favour, it will be sent to another hearing in front of three senior judges, who will assess her eight year sentence.
They could decrease or increase it, or keep the punishment the same.
However, those proceedings could become redundant if Newland’s appeal against conviction is successful.
Newland, who first met the victim in internet chat rooms, even kept her mask on when they kissed on the bed and watched films together.
The victim, in a statement, described her ordeal as having “poisoned her life” and taken her “youth and vitality”.
She added: “Socially I feel trapped – still living in this invisible prison Gayle has made.”
Gayle Newland jailed for 8 years
Shock in courtroom as sentence revealed Police mushot released Judge’s sentencing in his own words The sentencing as it happened Defendant prepares to receive sentence Lawyers speak of ‘strangest’ case Detective speaks out re public interest Newland guilty of duping friend into sex 
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/