Fake penis sex attacker Gayle Newland is appealing her conviction, the ECHO can reveal.
The 25-year-old was jailed for eight years last week after pretending she was a man to have sex with her unsuspecting partner.
The marketing manager ordered her lover to wear a blindfold and scarf, keeping her true gender secret.
Newland has now launched an appeal to overturn her conviction, which led to an eight-year jail term, the length of which was considered harsh in some circles.
The university student, who is studying creative writing, lodged an appeal in October against the jury’s guilty verdict at Chester Crown Court.
Newland, from Willaston, near Neston, is yet to table a separate challenge on her eight-year jail term. She has 28 days in which to submit the necessary paperwork.
A Court of Appeal spokesman said: “We have received an application of leave to appeal against conviction.”
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Newland, who wore a woolly hat for disguise and claimed she was hiding her body because of a tumour and embarrassing muscle wastage, will have her case considered by a single judge at the High Court in London.
If successful, it will be forwarded to a panel of three judges who will make the final decision on the strength of her conviction.
It could even prompt a guilty verdict being quashed or a retrial.
Newland, caught when her suspicious lover ripped off her mask to see the woman standing over her with a prosthetic penis, was seen sobbing as she was led away to a prison van on Thursday.
A court heard that she wore bandages to hide her breasts, and deliberately hid behind her alter ego Kye Fortune, and had sex with her victim 10 times.
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Newland even kept her mask on when they kissed and cuddled on the bed and watched films together, even once going out for a drive and then sunbathing.
She was convicted of three sexual assaults after a jury rejected her plea her lover knew she was a woman and they were playing along to a bizarre consensual fantasy.
If Newland’s conviction appeal is refused, her lawyers could still reinstate it and try overturning it one last time.
She was expected to undergo a strict mental health check by prison doctors when she arrived at jail.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/