Almost 1,000 people have joined a campaign to reduce the jail sentence of fake penis sex attacker Gayle Newland.
The petition ‘reduced sentence for Gayle Newland’, on Change.Org, has received more than 900 signatures.
A jury found 25-year-old Newland, of Hooton Road in Willaston, guilty of three counts of sexual assault following a trial at Chester Crown Court in September. She was jailed for eight years.
Her legal team has launched appeals against both her conviction and sentence.
And now the petition has emerged. It is seeking the backing of South Alison McGovern, Ellesmere Port and Neston MP Justin Madders, City of
Chester MP Chris Matheson and the LGBT Foundation.
The marketing manager posed as a man to trick her friend into a two-year relationship and used a prosthetic penis to have sex with her.
Her victim believed her ‘boyfriend’ was a man called Kye Fortune and wore a blindfold at his request whenever they met because ‘Kye’ was insecure about his appearance after undergoing treatment for a brain tumour.
She told Newland’s trial that she was in love with Kye and felt ‘grateful’ that she had finally found a ‘proper’ relationship.
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Emma Harris, who created the petition which has a target of 1,000, has urged people to help lessen what she calls Newland’s ‘disproportionate’ sentence.
She describes Newland as a ‘beautiful girl’ who was ‘nothing but loyal, caring and passionate towards her lover’ and poses no threat to the public.
In the blurb, Ms Harris writes: “There has been a complete flaw in the legal system in this case.
“Gayle has been found guilty of crimes she did not commit and the most we can do for her now is attempt to reduce her sentence.
“What has happened to Gayle Newland is more than unjust and it’s our job to raise awareness and make a change!”
Samantha Moor, from Blackpool, wrote that she has no faith in the justice system following Newland’s sentencing.
While signatory Dr Michael Ward, from Bradford, commented that he found the case ‘very disturbing’ and asked: “Is eight years in jail really an appropriate punishment for not understanding which deceptions are allowed in law and which are not when it comes to sexual consent?”
Sentencing her on November 12 to eight years for each count to be served concurrently, Judge Roger Dutton branded her an ‘obsessional, highly manipulative, deceitful, scheming and thoroughly determined young woman’.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/