'They were completely different people, even when we kissed': Teen duped into dating two boys without realising they were both the SAME GIRL



Victim says Gemma Barker 'should have won an Oscar for her performance'

'I felt dirty and disgusting', says victim

'If police couldn't tell he was a girl, how could I?'

'Gemma ruined my childhood and took everything away from me'

‘I was like he had just died. That was the only way I could cope with it.'

W he n Jessica Sayers dumped her boyfriend Luke after he groped her, she soon fell for the shy charm of new love Connor.

But little did she know that not only were both boys the same person, but each was in fact a character played by cruel 'himposter' Gemma Barker.

Today, 48 hours after Barker was jailed for two-and-a-half years, brave Miss Sayers told of her heartbreak at finding out she had been hoodwinked by the girl she thought was her friend.



Speaking on ITV's This Morning, Jessica, who has waived her right to anonymity, told how both Luke and Connor dressed differently, spoke differently, behaved differently - even kissed differently.

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Heartbreak: Speaking on ITV's This Morning, Jessica Sayers told how both Luke and Connor dressed differently, spoke differently, behaved differently - even kissed differently

'Everything about them was completely different,' the traumatised teenager, now 18, said. 'It was like they were two different people - even when we kissed.'

Barker, 20, duped Jessica and another girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, their parents and police by wearing baggy clothes, hats and speaking in a deeper voice.

Even when one of her alter egos was arrested, it wasn't until police gave her a male strip search that they realised 'he' was in fact a girl.

'Nobody knows what it is like when the person you love and want to spend the rest of your life with is not real. Gemma ruined my childhood and no little girl should have to go through what I did,' added Jessica in a separate interview with The Sun.

Actor: Jessica said Barker's (pictured) acting was so good, she could have won an Oscar

Barker's deception was complex and forensically planned. She first became friends with Jessica as herself after they met at a Halloween party in 2009. During days out and sleepovers Gemma learned Jessica and her other victim's tastes in boys.

She spent hours creating fake profiles of boys on social networking sites before approaching the girls.



Then, posing as a boy called Aaron Lampard she contacted Jessica on MSN Messenger. Through the social networking service, she introduced her to Luke Jones, another of her alter egos.

It was as Aaron that she duped the unidentified girl.



Jessica and Luke first met in person on a park bench under cover of darkness.

'I only ever saw below his eyes. He covered the rest with a hood,' Jessica said. ‘He said he didn’t want to show his face because he was very shy. And why wouldn’t I believe that?

'Gemma was very clever. She never studied drama but I did and I couldn't do such a convincing male voice.'

She added to The Sun: 'She could have won an Oscar for her performance.'



The couple met once a week for about four months until the relationship fell apart when 'Luke' attempted to grope Jessica.

‘I felt not ready to do anything at 15. At 15 you are just a child and I didn’t think you should do anything sexual.’

Having told ‘Luke’ she didn’t want to see him anymore, Jessica was contacted on MSN by Connor McCormack, also Gemma, saying he was a friend of Luke. When Gemma told her she thought Connor would make a good boyfriend, Jessica agreed to meet up.

Violation: When the police finally revealed the truth, Jessica said she felt 'dirty' and 'disgusting'

Connor was completely different to Luke, she said. Connor said he from a wealthy family and that his father worked for Simon Cowell.

She described Luke as 'like a chav' who wrote messages to her in 'text-speak'. ‘Luke was shy in person,' she said. He didn’t want to look at me but was more than happy to have hourly conversations on the phone at night.

‘But Connor was very shy. He never wanted to talk. He didn’t want to do anything.’

Jessica soon fell in love with Connor.

‘All my friends at school said, “Oh, your boyfriend is really fit,”’ she said. ‘And I was like, thanks. Nobody had any reason to believe he was not a boy.’

Barkers web of deceit began to unravel in May 2009 when she, as Connor, stayed the night with Jessica.



Deceit: Miss Barker with Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson. The court heard how she suffers from autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, commonly known as ADHD

‘That was the first time anything ever happened sexually. But I was never ever allowed to touch him in any way at all. He never let me. At 15 or 16 you are never going to question why.

‘After it happened he fell asleep and I stayed awake the whole night. I couldn’t sleep at all.’

She then decided to lift Luke’s hat as he slept to take a better look at the face she had never properly seen.

Deceit: Gemma Barker spent hours creating fake profiles of boys on social networking sites

To her horror, the face she saw was that of Aaron Lampard, who she knew was dating a friend of hers.

‘I felt shocked. I didn’t know what I could do. I knew nobody would believe me. And that’s what happened. Nobody believed me.’

Three weeks later, Jessica went to the police to report the person who had pretended to be both Connor and Aaron, still not realising it was Barker.

Barker was arrested in a park while dressed as Aaron. But it wasn’t until police conducted a strip search that they learned the disturbing truth.

Jessica said: ‘If CID, who are trained, aren’t able to recognise that (he was a girl), then how is a 15 year old girl supposed to know?’

When the police finally revealed the truth to Jessica, she said she felt ‘dirty’ and ‘disgusting’.

‘I felt shocked at first and then really angry. I felt deceived that the person that I loved was not actually real.

‘It didn’t sink in until a few months later when I realised no matter what I did, what I thought or what I said, he was never coming back.

‘I was like he had just died. That was the only way I could cope with it.'

Barker was jailed for two and a half years on Monday after admitting two counts of sexual assault and one of fraud. The offences took place between November 23 2009 and May 10 2010.

She received 30-month terms for the sexual assaults and three months for the fraud, the sentences to be concurrent.