Teacher found guilty of having sex with pupils

A teacher accused of having sex with pupils was found guilty on all counts.

Rebecca Joynes, from Wirral, has been on trial at Manchester Crown Court for two weeks facing six counts of sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust. The teenage boys cannot be named for legal reasons.

A jury has found the 30-year-old guilty on all counts on Friday, May 17. These include four counts of sexual activity with a child and two counts with sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust, reports the Manchester Evening News.

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The 30-year-old met the boys while she was a teacher at a school in Greater Manchester. Jurors previously heard Joynes groomed one pupil, boy A, with a Trafford Centre shopping trip, before having sex with him. She then fell pregnant by another teenager, boy B, the court heard.

Jurors heard both boys sent her flirty Snapchat messages before boy A was taken shopping, bought a £350 Gucci belt and went back to her flat on Salford Quays where they had sex, with his semen later recovered from her bedsheets by police.

Boy B said sexual activity began when he was 15 with kissing and full sex when he was 16 and while he was still a pupil. Joynes had claimed no sexual activity ever took place with boy A and a relationship developed with boy B while she was suspended from her job and only became sexual after she was dismissed and he had left school at 16, so no offence had taken place.

Ms Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, denied 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 found her guilty on all counts on Friday, May 17.

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