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The Bed Trick Audiobook by Izabella Scott
Episode The Bed Trick Audiobook by Izabella Scott
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: The Bed Trick Subtitle: Sex and Deception on Trial Categories: Biography, Sexual Abuse, True Crime Author: Izabella Scott Narrator: Lizzie Schenk Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd Release date: 02-05-2026 Language: English Summary: She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn't know who she was really having sex with. Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accusation, claims she was tricked into queer sex, many times, by a best friend pretending to be her boyfriend. But that friend, Gayle Newland, tells a different story. They were secret lesbians, she says, lovers in the closet. The boyfriend was imaginary, and part of a role play that had been going on for years. This astonishing case reached UK courtrooms twice in 2015 and 2017, capturing national attention. At both trials, Newland was convicted of a rare and controversial crime known as 'rape by deception'. In literature, the plot has been named 'the bed trick'. Shakespeare made it famous in plays with lovers switching places in the dark, but in real life, a consummated bed trick is rare. As The Bed Trick unfolds the riveting story of Newland's trials—a case where reality was stranger than fiction—it also reveals the malleability of courtroom narratives, and the many myths, archetypes and stories embedded in the law. #ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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