Revealed: Letters from maths teacher Rebecca Joynes to the student she was having sex with
A maths teacher on trial for having sex with a former pupil told him ‘every inch of you is perfect’ and he was ‘all I ever dream about’, a court heard yesterday.
In a letter read out at her trial on alleged sex of fences, Rebecca Joynes also told the teenager – by whom she had gone on to become pregnant – she hoped they could ‘keep this going for a while longer’.
Cross-examined for a second day, the 30-year-old accepted inviting the pupil, named Boy B, back to her luxury apartment when he was 15, but insisted she only became ‘sexually attracted’ to him after he left school.
She denies taking his virginity shortly after he turned 16, and says they slept together for the first time in July 2022 after she had been sacked as his teacher – when it was no longer against the law. Joynes also denies having sex with a second 15-year-old from her maths class months earlier – although she admits he spent the night at her flat.
Asking her about Boy B’s claim that she became ‘controlling’ as their relationship went on, prosecutor Joe Allman read extracts from a letter Joynes wrote to him after he had left school.
In one, she wrote: ‘Every inch of you is perfect and you are all I ever dream about.’
In another she wrote: ‘I know we are struggling right now and are both extremely stressed but I really hope we can work something out to keep this going for a while longer.’
Speaking in court yesterday, she denied the letter was part of a bid to ‘manipulate’ Boy B, adding: ‘We were in a relationship, I was in love with him, I was pregnant with his child.’
Mr Allman put it to Joynes that she would ‘insinuate’ to Boy B that she would ‘harm’ herself or kill herself if he ended the relationship, or that ‘if he did he would be responsible if you lost the baby’.
Rejecting the accusation, she claimed her words to him had been: ‘I can’t do this any more.’
‘I wasn’t committing an offence by doing any of it,’ she added. ‘Things got really difficult when I fell pregnant.’
Earlier Mr Allman asked her whether it was her case that she only became ‘sexually attracted’ to Boy B from the point when he ‘became legal’.
‘Yes,’ she replied.
Asked if she found him ‘sexy’ when he was coming to her flat aged 15 and 16 – but before leaving school in the summer of 2022 – Joynes insisted she hadn’t.
She has told jurors she was ‘stupid’ to swap messages with Boy A and invite him back to her Salford Quays apartment in October 2021 – but denies his account that they had sex twice.
Saying she felt ‘ashamed’, she added: ‘I’d ruined my chances in my dream job.’ Joynes, who has arrived at Manchester Crown Court each day of her trial with a knitted bonnet tucked into her trousers, has denied bringing the hat to win ‘sympathy’ from the jury. ‘I sleep with this every night,’ she added.
She denies six counts of sexual activity with a child, two of them while in a position of trust.
The trial continues.
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