During sleepovers and outings, she discovered what they liked in boys, so they would find her attractive once she assumed her aliases. Then she created the characters of Luke, Connor and another lad named Aaron Lampard. She spent hours compiling elaborate Facebook and MSN Messenger profiles of the boys — even using photos of real lads stolen from web pages.
The pretence took a nasty twist after Barker, of Staines, Surrey, bombarded her victims with flirtatious notes from Aaron, Luke and Connor. The second girl was the first to succumb when she started dating Aaron.
It was nice to see her so happy. And she told me she thought me and Connor would be perfect together. Aaron was well-off, told me his brother and sister had died. Connor was rich, came from a good family, lived next to Luke and his dad worked for Simon Cowell.
Everything was a charade. I went to bed with Connor and woke up next to Aaron. He did bad things to me that night that led to the sexual assault conviction. I was carrying a bottle of paracetamol in my dressing gown pocket and I tried to cut my wrists with a razor.
Barker was posing as Aaron when arrested in a park. It was only when - in the guise of one of her fake identities Aaron Lampard - she was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and her clothes were removed in the cells that police discovered her true identity. Barker's two victims were completely taken in and had sexual encounters with the person they variously believed was Lampard, Connor McCormack or Luke Jones. Last January Samantha Brooks was charged with obtaining sexual contact by fraud after being accused of posing as a man called Lee Brooks in order to have sexual contact with two women, one in Perthshire, the other in London, between and The charge alleges that she pretended to each woman that she suffered from testicular cancer and that they could not therefore handle her penis, in an attempt to induce each to believe that she had a penis.
It alleges she tried to hide her breasts from the women by telling one that she had suffered burns on her back and needed to wear bandages around the chest area. She allegedly told the other that she had suffered a stab wound to the torso which meant she had to wear bandages and clingfilm around the chest. Brooks, 26, was accused of placing a condom on an object she purported to be her penis and using it to obtain sexual intimacy with both women, which she knew they would not otherwise consent to.
The charges, which Brooks denied, were eventually dropped after a witness refused to co-operate. In May last year, Joanna Hayes above was jailed for life after disguising herself in a wig and moustache before shooting dead her daughter-in-law in Snellville, Georgia. Hayes, 45, killed Heather Strube, 25, while wearing the disguise and was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. In Mexico, Aaron Vera Morales underwent gender altering surgery in a bid to avoid arrest for a minor fraud charge.
The year-old was wanted for defrauding a government health agency when he was arrested last June while carrying his new female identity. In Britain, a student who wore a female rubber mask while spying on women in shopping centre toilets escaped jail.
Joel Hardman , 22, also donned a black wig so he could slip into the women's toilets unnoticed at the Bullring in Birmingham. Barker, from Staines, Middlesex, now faces jail after admitting two counts of sexual assault and one of fraud by tricking the girls into relationships.
Prosecutors at Guildford Crown Court told how she reinforced her deception by setting up Facebook profiles for her different personas and even had individual dress styles for them. She wore different hats, hoodies and other baggy clothing to mask her identity, walking and talking like a boy.
Judge Peter Moss told Barker he could not be sure whether she was 'bad and dangerous to know or mad and dangerous to know'. Even at that point she did not realise the boy was actually a female friend.
When the net was closing in, Barker deliberately fractured her jaw and tried to blame her 'Luke Jones' alter-ego for attacking her and forcing her to pose as 'Aaron'. Prosecutor Ruby Selva told the court: 'The defendant was 19 years old when she befriended her victims, who were 16 and 15 years old.
Barker struck up an online relationship with the older victim by inventing the fictitious character 'Aaron Lampard', and the pair became a 'couple'. The girl met 'Aaron' in various parks and even took him home to her family, Ms Selva said. The prosecutor said the year-old's parents were taken in by the disguise, even though they had met Gemma Barker. Barker engaged in 'kissing, cuddling and groping' with the girl as Lampard before creating another boy persona and befriending a second victim.
It was through 'Lampard' that the year-old's younger friend met 'Connor McCormack'. The younger victim began a relationship with 'McCormack', despite having met both 'Lampard' and the real Barker. In May the bizarre story took a further twist when the second girl removed 'McCormack's' hat and saw who she thought was 'Lampard'.
She described similar clothing, a hat and a hoodie being up. Prosecutors told Guildford Crown Court pictured neither of Barker's victims had 'any idea' of her true identity. But she was so clever about it and I was young and naive. She took everything away from me.
When we kissed it was just like a normal kiss. Gemma was very flat-chested so I didn't feel her breasts when we hugged - there was nothing there. Barker, who was two years above her victims at school, grew friendly with Sayers and another girl.
They had sleepovers where Gemma would discover what the girls liked in a boy and became what her defence lawyer called "the perfect boy". The court heard earlier this week that Barker spent hours inventing elaborate back stories, personalities and Facebook accounts for her male aliases.
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