A woman who used a plastic penis to dupe her girlfriend into believing she was actually a man has been jailed as the judge told her "sometimes truth is stranger than fiction".

Gayle Newland cried in the dock as she was sent back to jail yesterday for tricking the woman into believing she was a man by making her wear a blindfold when they met and by using a prosthetic penis during sex.

The 27-year-old created a "disturbingly complex" online persona to achieve her own "bizarre sexual satisfaction" and continued the deception over a two year period.

The Recorder of Manchester, Judge David Stockdale QC, told her she had shown “an extraordinary degree of cunning and a chilling desire" to manipulate and control the lives of others

"It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or a deceit so damaging to the victim on its discovery," he added.