This is everything heard by the jury in the first week of the trial of a teacher accused of having sex with two of her pupils. Rebecca Joynes, 30, denies six counts of having sexual activity with a child.
Day 1: Tuesday, May 7 Seven men and five women were selected as the jury in the case. After Judge Kate Cornell gave her introductory legal directions to the jury, barrister Joe Allman opened the prosecution’s case. But prosecutors said that the relationship later turned sexual and that she became pregnant, and later went on to have the baby, despite Ms Joynes allegedly telling him it was ‘almost impossible’ for her to conceive due to a health issue. He learned she was pregnant ‘to his great shock’ after she gave him a baby grow, the court heard.
Officers later seized CCTV from the Trafford Centre which showed Ms Joynes and the boy together in Selfridges, with her buying the £345 belt from the Gucci concession. Prosecutors claimed this constituted ‘grooming’. Jurors heard that a ‘rumour began to circulate’ and the police attended school the following Monday. They were told that Ms Joynes had sent the boy a message with a ‘heart and three kisses’ on the Monday, before the police attended.
Jurors heard that Ms Joynes was initially suspended and then dismissed from her post following the first allegations. Prosecutors allege that she engaged in sexual activity by kissing the second boy when he was aged 15, and that it became sexual after he turned 16. Jurors heard they didn’t see each other for a while after she moved in with her parents. He said that when they saw one another again that she had lost weight and dyed her hair, and ‘looked like a different person’.
Within days they were exchanging Snapchat messages and after finishing school on a Friday afternoon he went home, changed out of his school uniform and Joynes picked him up at a pre-arranged point in her white Audi A1 car. He claims he did not see the hand over to her mother as Joynes parked in another street, “probably because how young I look,” the boy said.He said: “She said something about driving. I went, ‘I wouldn’t know because I’m not old enough,’ and she said, ‘Oh shut up’ laughing, said something like, ‘Stop saying that’ but laughing.”
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