The jury retires to consider verdicts in the trial of a teacher accused of having sex with two students

The jury retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a teacher accused of having sex with two students.

Rebecca Joynes, from Wirral, denies six counts of sexual activity with a child, including two while a person in a position of trust. Teenagers cannot be named for legal reasons.

The 30-year-old met the boys while she was a teacher at a school in Greater Manchester. Jurors previously heard Joynes treated a pupil, Boy A, to a shopping trip to the Trafford Center before having sex with him. But she became pregnant by another teenager, boy B, the court heard, the Manchester Evening News reports.

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Jurors heard both boys sent her flirtatious Snapchat messages before Boy A was taken shopping, bought a £350 Gucci belt and returned to her flat in Salford Quays, where they had sex, and his sperm was later recovered by police bedding.

Boy B claims the sexual activity started when he was 15, with kissing and full sex, when he was 16 and still a student. Joynes claims no sexual activity took place with boy A and a relationship developed with boy B while she was suspended from work and only became sexual after she was fired and he left school at 16, so no offense occurred.

Mrs Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, denies four counts of sexual activity with a child and two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. The seven men and five women on the jury retired this morning to consider their deliberations.

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