A 44 year old woman already in prison for pretending to be a man and fooling a previous partner has been found guilty of the same offense once again. Blade Silvano was found guilty of falsely presenting herself as a man to another victim, going to great lengths to keep up the pretence. As The Guardian reports, Silvano appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court in North Wales. The prosecution case was that she met the woman via an online dating site and introduced herself as ‘Hunter’ (a male army captain and surgeon). Silvano had an excuse for anything that might have exposed her. She was said to have been keen on keeping the lights low when they were together and would refuse to allow her partners to touch her intimately. She’s said to have justified that by claiming she had an injury from her time in the service and was very embarrassed about her body. The victim believed she was in a heterosexual relationship Things got a bit more complicated when a contraceptive barrier broke during one of their sexual encounters. The woman was obviously anxious, but Silvano is reported to have completely dismissed her concerns, apparently telling her, “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” The woman eventually worked out who she’d been dating after an unexpected phone call from Silvano’s long-term partner, who told her that Hunter was in fact a woman. The victim told the court she was absolutely gobsmacked and felt utterly violated. “I thought it was some kind of joke,” she said. “I thought I was in a relationship with a straight, heterosexual man. I would never go out with a woman. Silvano had been caught in a similar situation previously. In 2023, she was sentenced to over ten years in prison by a Cambridge court (per BBC News) after she had spent 2016 and 2017 pretending to be a male military veteran called “Blade Mendez”. She’d become engaged to her then-partner and had them both going through the motions of planning a wedding before social media exposed her. She was also on the sex offenders register at the time. Prosecutors described her behaviour as calculated, going to great lengths to maintain false identities and manipulate her partners. Judge Jones has ordered pre-sentence reports that will examin at Silvano’s circumstances and mental health, with professionals assessing what risk she presents to the public. Sentencing will reportedly take place next month.