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A maths teacher got pregnant by one of her pupils while awaiting trial for taking another schoolboy back to her luxury apartment for sex, a court heard today.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, had been on bail accused of 'grooming' a 15-year-old for sex by buying him a £345 Gucci belt from Selfridges at the Trafford Centre.

She then drove him in her white Audi to her flat in Salford Quays where they had sex twice, a jury heard.

But despite her telling him 'No-one better find out', he messaged a friend over Snapchat to tell him he had 'just had sex with Ms Joynes', they were told.

And when the friend refused to believe him, he secretly took a photograph of her and sent it to him, prosecutors alleged.

Word spread over the weekend, and the following Monday police were called to the school in Greater Manchester where she worked, and she was arrested, the trial heard.

Joynes was released on bail not to contact any child under 18 and suspended from her job.

But while she was awaiting trial for engaging in sexual activity with a child, 'remarkably' it was revealed that 'quite brazenly' she was in a long-term sexual relationship with a boy prosecutor Joe Allman said.

The affair with the second boy – during which he claimed they had sex around 30 times - was exposed after she told him she was expecting his child, Mr Allman said.

This came as 'a shock' to the schoolboy as she had told him she couldn't get pregnant.

Today Joynes – who the jury was told has since had the baby – sat with her arms folded in front of her and wearing a lilac-coloured jacket and with her blonde hair down as the prosecution case against her was laid out.

In October 2021 she was giving the first pupil – referred to as Boy A – additional maths lessons ahead of his GCSEs at the school where she worked and which cannot be named for legal reasons, Manchester Crown Court heard.

He later told police she set him a challenge to guess her mobile phone number, having given him ten of the 11 digits, Mr Allman said.

The prosecutor told jurors this was 'obviously a game designed for him to guess her number'.

They began swapping messages and arranged that the 15-year-old would come to her flat after school that Friday night, the court heard.

'At first he thought she was joking,' Mr Allman said.

But that day she picked him up in her car before collecting her dog from a doggy day care centre, dropping the pet off at her parents before taking him to the Trafford Centre.

The jury were shown what Mr Allman said was 'crystal clear' CCTV footage of Boy A pulling out various belts at the Gucci concession Selfridges.

Joynes – wearing a turquoise jacket - could then be seen placing her bank card down on the counter before Boy A put on the belt.

Mr Allman told jurors she had been 'grooming' the boy.

Further CCTV footage shows the pair arriving at her apartment, Mr Allman said, where the boy told police they had sex twice.

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