Teacher denies having drunken sex with student in plane toilet
A TEACHER has denied having sex with a student in the toilets of a plane as they returned from a school trip because she was drunk and fancied him, a court heard.
Eleanor Wilson, 29, rejected accusations she was bored with her own boyfriend and had a crush on the “good looking young lad”.
Wilson is on trial accused of having sexual intercourse with the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on a British Airways flight home from an overseas camping trip in August 2015.
It is alleged the teacher, then aged 26, kissed and cuddled the boy before “beckoning” him into the toilet where they had sex.
She is also accused of seeing the boy outside of school where they allegedly kissed and cuddled on three separate occasions.
Wilson said she would discuss personal matters with the boy because her then partner of eight years, Andrew Hall, was violent and controlling and she could not tell him she was pregnant with his child.
“I wanted to conceal it because he would have beaten it out of me. You don’t know what he’s like,” Wilson told jurors at Bristol Crown Court.
Virginia Cornwall, prosecuting, suggested Wilson’s relationship with Mr Hall had become “dull”.
“Did you feel lonely with your relationship because of a lack of intimacy? There was not a lot of sex,” she asked.
“You were bored with your life and [the boy] you had noticed before the trip. He was a good looking young lad? Did he remind you of Andy when you got together aged 17?
“There was a loosening of the boundaries between you and [the boy]. You became like one of the students, moving down to their level, you liked that level of contact.”
Wilson, of Dursley, Gloucestershire, denies four charges of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
The trial continues.