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Fake penis sex attacker Gayle Newland will appeal her conviction and eight-year prison sentence next month, it has been revealed.

Newland, 26, was locked up last year 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, from Willaston, was found guilty by a jury at Chester Crown Court of three counts of sexual assault but continues to maintain her innocence.

She insisted that her lover knew she was a woman and they were playing along to a consensual fantasy.

The case was described by lawyers involved as “the strangest they had ever done” .

Judge Roger Dutton branded Newland an “obsessional, highly manipulative, deceitful, scheming and thoroughly determined young woman”.

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 panel of judges at the High Court in London.

She was caught when her suspicious lover ripped off her mask to see the woman standing over her with a prosthetic penis.

Chester Crown 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.

A Court of Appeal list has revealed that her legal challenge will be heard on October 12 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Three judges will consider the strength of the former University of Chester student’s conviction and assess her sentence.