Teacher Rebecca Joynes told boy, 16: ‘Every inch of you is perfect’
A teacher accused of having sex with two schoolboys wrote to one of them saying “every inch of you is perfect”, a court was told.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, insists she only began a sexual relationship with the boy, who was 16 at the time, five days after she was dismissed from her job as a maths teacher. She hade been sacked over claims of inappropriate behaviour with another boy.
Giving evidence for a second day at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday, Ms Joynes, who became pregnant by the teenager, identified only as Boy B, rejected the suggestion that she was “obsessive” or “controlling”.
Joe Allman, for the prosecution, read out a letter Ms Joynes, from the Wirral, had sent the teenager in which she wrote: “Every inch of you is perfect. You are all I ever dreamed of.”
Responding to Mr Allman, Ms Joynes said: “It was [written] a year after he had left school. We were in a relationship. You write letters and cards to people you are in a relationship with.”
Relationship ‘flew in face of safeguarding’
She admitted the relationship had been a “secret”, agreeing with Mr Allman’s insistence that it “flies in the face of safeguarding” rules. Rejecting the suggestion she was “obsessive”, she said: “Things got very difficult when I got pregnant.”
Ms Joynes admitted contacting Boy B the day she was suspended from her job and when she was on bail for alleged sexual activity with another schoolboy, Boy A, who was 15.
She claimed she formed a close friendship with Boy B during the Covid pandemic, shortly after a break-up from a nine-year relationship.
“We formed a strong friendship because I was so very emotional about what had happened that day, and that’s when it continued,” she said.
She insisted that the sexual relationship only began after she was dismissed from school and he had left school and was over 16.
“He had sent me a message,” she continued. “He was no longer a student. It just grew into that.”
Ms Joynes denied the boy’s claims that when he visited her home when he was 15 she had “straddled him” and “kissed him on the mouth” but wanted to wait until he was 16 before having sex.
She told Mr Allman: “That’s not the case at all. Kissing and sex is part of the whole sexual thing, so I wouldn’t have done that.”
‘I have ruined my chances of my dream job’
Mr Allman put it to Ms Joynes that the jury of seven men and five women had heard she had been lonely during the pandemic and the boy had visited her home for help with his maths.
She replied: “I spoke to my family. I had made a mistake, they were aware of that. And, I have ruined my chances of my dream job.”
Boy B told police that the day before Ms Joynes was arrested for a second time, over alleged sexual contact with him, she had planned a “date night” involving an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities.
He said rose petals were scattered on the floor and notes had been hidden around her flat.
He said: “At the end it was a babygrow. It said something like, ‘Best Dad’ and I was like, ‘What the f---?’
“She started crying and I started crying, because we were undecided whether to get rid of it or not. That was probably the lowest point, we were irresponsible. It’s my own fault. I also thought, ‘What the f--- am I going to do?’ I can’t hide a kid.’ I had hid the relationship for 18 months from my parents.”
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 trial continues.
