Teacher ‘who had sex with pupil told him to stop saying how old he was’
Woman allegedly became pregnant by one schoolboy while on bail for having sex with another, jury hears
‘But anyone in my position, when you are my age, my year. If you ever see her – she is good looking’ ‘I remember her saying you might as well come to the apartment, and I said, I may as well stay. She said “OK. That works for me”’
A TEACHER accused of having sex with two teenage boys laughed and said “Oh shut up!” when one said that he was not old enough to drive, a court heard.
Rebecca Joynes made a comment about driving while picking up a 15-year-old boy after school in her car and going to her flat where they had sex, Manchester Crown Court heard.
The boy, known only as Boy A, said he would not know about that as he was too young to drive. Ms Joynes replied while laughing: “Oh shut up. Stop saying that,” it is alleged.
Ms Joynes, 30, is on trial accused of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust.
She became pregnant by a second teenage boy, known as Boy B, while she was on bail for allegedly having sex with Boy A, a jury has heard.
On the second day of the trial, jurors watched the video interview which Boy A gave to police officers.
He told police Ms Joynes had given him 10 of the 11 digits of her phone number and he worked out the missing digit to first make contact with her.
Within days they were exchanging Snapchat messages and after finishing school on a Friday, he went home, changed out of his school uniform and Ms Joynes picked him up at a pre-arranged point in her white Audi A1.
In the video, a police officer asks Boy A: “What were you wanting to happen?”
He replied: “To be honest, I was not expecting that to happen, what happened. I didn’t expect anything.”
“What were you hoping to happen?” the officer continued.
“I don’t know,” the boy said, adding: “But anyone in my position, when you are my age, my year. If you ever see her – she is good looking.”
Boy A said he expected to do what had been planned – go to the Trafford Centre and back to her flat.
He said: “I remember her saying you might as well come to her apartment, and I said, I may as well stay.
“She said ‘OK. That works for me’.” After picking up the boy, Ms Joynes drove to fetch her dog from day care and dropped it off with her parents, telling the boy she had arranged for them to have it overnight.
He did not see the handover to her mother as Ms Joynes parked in another street, “probably because how young I look”, the boy said.
Boy A told the officer about a conversation on the journey.
He said: “She said something about driving. I went, ‘I wouldn’t know because I’m not old enough,’ and she said, ‘Oh shut up,’ laughing, said something like, ‘Stop saying that,’ but laughing.”
After visiting the Trafford Centre, where the boy said that Ms Joynes bought him a £345 Gucci designer belt, they went back to her flat at Salford Quays where they had sex twice, it is alleged. However, rumours began to circulate and a police investigation followed as the defendant was suspended by her school and she later told police that no sexual activity had taken place.
She was subsequently bailed on condition she have no unsupervised contact with anyone aged under 18.
But it later emerged that Ms Joynes had been in a long-term sexual relationship with another teenage boy she had been in contact with while suspended.
The youngster is the father of Ms Joynes’s young daughter.
Ms Joynes claims sexual activity with Boy B did not start until he turned 16.
Neither boy can be publicly identified by law.
Ms Joynes denies two counts of sexual activity with Boy A, two counts of sexual activity with Boy B and two counts of sexual activity with Boy B while being a person in a position of trust.
The two-week trial continues.