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A woman told police of her disbelief when she discovered that her boyfriend of two years was a female friend, a jury has heard.

The complainant says she thought she was having sex with a man called Kye Fortune, who was recovering from a brain tumour and did not want her to see his scars.

But she claims she eventually discovered it was in fact her friend, Gayle Newland, 25, who had persuaded her to wear a blindfold throughout their sexual encounters in which a prosthetic was used.

Newland, of Willaston, Merseyside, is on trial at Chester Crown Court where she denies five counts of sexual assault between February and June 2013.

The court heard that the alleged victim received a Facebook friend request in 2011 from a Kye Fortune who purported to be a half-Filipino, half-Latino young male.

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They communicated online and "Kye" later told her he had been involved in a car accident and medics had found he had a brain tumour.

He was having treatment in hospital and was not well enough to see her, the complainant told police in a video interview.

But the pair spoke frequently on the phone where the complainant described Kye's voice as "high-pitched".

The complainant told the interviewing officer: "He was saying how much I had helped him get through his illness.

"(He said) it was a sign, we should get married, we should have kids, we were going to do all sorts of things."

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During this time, the complainant said she met Newland - who became a "really good friend" and said she knew Kye.

Eventually the complainant and Kye decided to finally meet in person at a Chester hotel, the jury heard.

She told police that the only stipulation that Kye made was that she wear a blindfold because he was "anxious about the way he looked" and "could not walk properly" due to nerve and muscle damage.

She said Kye was in the bathroom when she entered the hotel room and the bed was covered with rose petals and Hello Kitty bears.

The complainant said she put on the blindfold of a sleeping mask and scarf and that a "shaking" Kye came in and said he had signed himself out of a private hospital in Manchester.

The pair then had sex, she alleges, before Kye said he had to return to hospital.

The case continues.