The teacher groomed her for sex before she became pregnant by another student, the jury heard

A teacher became pregnant by a schoolboy while she was on bail for allegedly having sex with another pupil, a jury heard.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, of Pensby Road, Wirral, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court charged with six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while a person in a position of trust. She denies all the allegations.

Ms Joynes is said to have groomed her first alleged victim, 15-year-old Boy A, by buying him a £345 designer Gucci belt from Selfridges during a shopping trip to the Trafford Centre, before leads to her then flat in Salford, where they allegedly had sex twice.

A police investigation ensued and she was suspended from school. Ms Joynes later told police that no sexual activity took place and she was released on bail on the condition that she have no unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18.

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She is then accused of getting another teenager, Boy B, pregnant while she was on bail for the case involving Boy A, the jury was told. Opening the case on Monday, prosecutor Joe Allman said Boy A went to court and answered questions from Ms Joynes’ lawyer in a recorded cross-examination.

Mr Allman said: “The case was then adjourned to await the rest of the trial, but in the meantime it emerged that Ms Joynes had a long-term sexual relationship with another 15-year-old pupil of hers.

“At the right time (Boy B) gave his account. He said Ms Joynes was his teacher, they were in contact while she was suspended and he went to her flat when he was 15.

“They kissed and then, after he turned 16, they started a full-on affair that got her pregnant, much to his shock, because she had told him she couldn’t get pregnant because she had polycystic ovary syndrome.

“So remarkable and in all fairness it all happened while Ms Joynes was on bail at this court. Of course she cannot deny that intercourse because she got pregnant with the child (Boy B) and had the child (Boy B).

“Instead, this time she claims the sexual activity didn’t start until he was over 16 and she was eventually dismissed from the school.”

Mr Allman said Boy A told police Ms Joynes gave him 10 of the 11 digits of her phone number and “challenged” him to guess the remaining digit. She kept suggesting he stay at her flat, said Boy A, who “thought she was joking at first”, the court heard.

Mr Allman said Ms Joynes picked him up in her white Audi near his home and stopped at a dog daycare center to pick up her dog, which she had left at her parents’ home in Wirral. The prosecutor said: “He then drove him back to Manchester and took him to the Trafford Center where they went to the Gucci stand in Selfridges and told him he could choose a belt.”

In the early evening they arrived at her flat in Salford Quays where they sat on the sofa and then went to the bedroom where they undressed and had sex, the court heard. Boy A told police the defendant told him several times it was “better that no one found out”, the jury was told.

The pair later had sex again, he said, and at this point he was “quite confused” and told the two friends on Snapchat about what had happened, the court heard. Mr Allman said that over the weekend “somewhat predictably” one or both friends told others and “a rumor started to circulate”.

An anonymous tip-off to Childline also followed, while police visited the school the following week, the court was told. The prosecutor said both communicated via Snapchat and the messages were mostly unrecoverable, but one was recovered from Ms Joynes which contained a heart and three kisses.

Boy B told police he knew Ms Joynes was suspended when he met her at her flat and they kissed when she was 15, the court was told. Mr Allman said Boy B sent her a “crude” text that read: “Put your breasts out”, to which she replied: “Not tonight”.

Ms Joynes was also said to have sent him a photo of her bottom in nothing but panties, the court heard. Boy B said Ms Joynes later revealed she was pregnant by him and presented a Victoria’s Secret scratch card with sexual fantasies for him to act out, the jury heard.

The teenager said Ms Joynes scattered rose petals in the flat for ‘date night’, ordered food delivery from Pizza Express and left a ‘trail of surprises’, the latest being a child raised with the words ‘I love my dad my”. the court was told.

Boy B said Ms Joynes was “very jealous and controlling of him”, the jury heard. 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 a person in a position of trust.

The two-week trial continues Wednesday.

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