A 15-year-old schoolboy allegedly groomed by his ‘good looking’ maths teacher told police that ‘anyone in my position’ would have agreed to go back to her luxury apartment for sex, a court heard today.
Rebecca Joynes’ appearance was ‘definitely’ the talk of pupils in her class, the boy said in a police interview played to jurors on the second day of the 30-year-old’s trial for sex offences.
She allegedly went on to have sex with a second pupil around 30 times while on bail awaiting trial in relation to the first teenager, becoming pregnant by him and having his baby.
Dressed in a white blouse, Joynes arrived to her trial with a pink baby bonnet tucked into her black trousers.
It’s the second time she was pictured bringing the small item of children’s clothing into Manchester Crown Court, having taken it into the dock with her on Tuesday.
Today she sat scribbled notes on a paper pad as jurors were told how the 15-year-old – referred to as Boy A – told a detective the pair had arranged to meet up after she told him the first ten digits of her mobile phone number.
Maths teacher Rebecca Joynes, 30, allegedly had sex with two schoolboys. She is pictured arriving at her trial in Manchester on Wednesday
Rebecca Joynes pictured in 2018, years before she is alleged to have groomed a schoolboy
She allegedly had sex with one pupil around 30 times while on bail awaiting trial in relation to the first teenager, becoming pregnant by him and having his baby (Joynes is pictured arriving at court with her father, right)
Boy A said he and his friends had previously jokingly pestered her for it and asked her if she was in a relationship.
He tried calling each possible permutation for the final number as the Monday morning maths class went on, and when he reached four ‘I heard her phone go off’, he said.
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Boy A said his recollection was that he sent her a message that evening reading simply ‘Hi’, but got no response.
At a maths lesson later in the week, Boy A said he sent her a further text along the lines of: ‘You ignored me.’
This time he said Joynes responded, and they began messaging ‘properly’, eventually arranging to meet up and go to her Salford Quays apartment after school on the Friday.
Jurors were yesterday told that Joynes accepts picking Boy A up in her Audi, buying him a £345 Gucci belt from Selfridges in the Trafford Centre, and then taking him to her apartment where he stayed the night in October 2021.
But she denies sexual activity took place.
She also claims her sexual relationship with Boy B – which ended when she told him she was pregnant – only began after he had turned 16.
Asked by the detective who Joynes was, Boy A replied: ‘She was my maths teacher.’
The teenager said Joynes was ‘obviously good-looking’, saying it was ‘definitely’ something he and his classmates talked about.
‘Before I even had her [as a teacher] everyone would be speaking about her, saying she’s good-looking, whatever,’ he added.
Joynes denies six counts of sexual activity with a child, two of them while in a position of trust
Joynes denies six counts of sexual activity with a child, two of them while in a position of trust
Joynes pictured outside Manchester Crown Court alongside her father at an earlier hearing
Asked why he thought Joynes had given him all but one digit of her phone in class, Boy A replied: ‘It sounds as if she probably wanted me to message her.
‘That’s how it comes across.’
Boy A said he told a friend he was in contact with their teacher, and at his suggestion added her as a Snapchat contact because ‘messages delete’.
But he said when Joynes first suggested meeting up, he replied ‘you’re deffo like joking’.
However he said Joynes replied that she ‘literally wasn’t’ joking.
Asked what he had expected to happen after she picked him up, Boy A replied: ‘To be honest, I wasn’t expecting that to happen, what happened.
‘I didn’t expect that to happen, but it did.
Joynes was released on bail not to contact any child under 18 and suspended from her job
‘I feel like anyone in my position when we arranged to meet would – if you’re my age and in my year.
‘She is good-looking.’
He said after school on the Friday he packed ‘my stuff to stay over – shorts, T-shirt, sliders, clean underwear’ before she collected him from a row of shops in her white Audi.
Later, the court heard how Joynes allegedly told Boy A ‘oh shut up’ when he told her ‘I’m not old enough’.
The conversation is alleged to have happened during a trip in Joynes’ car and was revealed during an interview with police.
Boy A an officer about a conversation on the journey and 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.’
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 two-week trial continues.