A teacher accused of having sex with teenage boys laughed and said, “Oh, shut up!” when someone told him: 'I'm not old enough' to drive, a court heard.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, made the comment as she drove up Manchester flat to have sex with a 15 year old boy she picked up schoolManchester Crown Court heard.
The victim, identified only as Boy A, said he was too young to drive – to which Joynes allegedly replied: “Oh, shut up! Stop saying that!'
Joynes is on trial accused of six counts of sexual activity with a child, including two while a person in a position of trust.
She became pregnant with a second teenage boy, Boy B, while on bail for allegedly having sex with Boy A, a jury has heard.
On the second day of the trial, jurors watched the video interview Boy A gave to police officers.
Boy A told police that Joynes gave him 10 of the 11 digits of her phone number and he worked out the missing digit to contact her first.
Within days they exchanged Snapchat messages and after leaving school on Friday afternoon, he went home, changed out of his school uniform and Joynes picked him up at an agreed point in her white Audi A1 car.
When the police asked Boy A what he “wanted,” he replied, “Honestly, I didn't expect this to happen, what happened. I didn't expect anything.
The officer asked, “What were you hoping would happen?”
He added: 'I don't know. But anyone in my position, if you're my age, my year. If you ever see her, she looks good.'
Boy A said he expected to do as planned: go to the Trafford Center and back to her flat.
He said, “I remember she said you might as well come to her apartment, and I said, I might as well stay.” She said, 'Okay. That works for me.”
After picking up the boy, Joynes drove to pick up her dog from daycare and dropped him off at her parents' home in Wirral, telling the boy she had arranged for them to have him overnight.
He didn't see the handshake given to her mother as Joynes parked on another street, “probably because I look so young,” the boy said.
Boy A told the officer about a conversation on the road: 'She said something about driving. I said, 'I wouldn't know because I'm not old enough,' and she said, laughing, 'Oh, shut up,' and said something like, 'Don't say that again,' but laughed.”
After a visit to the Trafford Centre, where the youngster said Joynes had bought him a £345 Gucci designer belt, they went back to her flat on Salford Quays where they reportedly had sex twice.
In the following weeks, rumors began to circulate, and a police investigation ensued when Joynes was suspended by her school – although she later told police that no sexual activity had taken place.
She was subsequently released on bail on the condition that she not have unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18.
But it later emerged that Joynes had had a long-term sexual relationship with another teenage boy she had contacted during her suspension.
The second boy is the father of Joynes' young daughter, but Joynes still claims that the sexual activity with Boy B did not begin until he turned 16.
Neither boy is legally allowed to be publicly identified.
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 a person in a position of trust.
The two-week trial period continues.
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