‘You are a n**ce, find someone your own age’
COURT IS TOLD HOW TEEN TRIED TO END ‘RELATIONSHIP’ WITH TEACHER
A TEACHER who fell pregnant by a teenager was told ‘you’re a n**ce, find someone your own age,’ as he tried to end their ‘18-month relationship,’ a court has heard.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court. She denies six counts of sexual activity with a child.
The allegations concern two teenage boys – who cannot be named for legal reasons – she met while she was a teacher at a Greater Manchester school.
Yesterday a police video interview with the second complainant, Boy B, was shown to the court.
He recounted the first time he had unprotected sex with Ms Joynes, saying he was ‘nervous’ because it was his first time. Boy B then said Ms Joynes told him she was pregnant with his child. He said: “I don’t know if she was lying or not. She was crying and saying she didn’t know if she could do it alone.”
Boy B went onto tell officers that the relationship became ‘controlling,’ with Ms Joynes asking for his Snapchat password and wanting to see his location.
He said: “I wanted to end it. I think she was emotionally abusing me. It was mental warfare for me. I now know it was weird the whole time. I did love her to be honest.
“She said she loved me and all that stuff. Every time I tried to end it she would blackmail me. It was just torture to be honest.”
He said that towards the end of the relationship, they argued ‘pretty much every day.’
“Towards the end I pretty much went bipolar,” he said. “It’s such a relief not having to worry about messaging someone or watching my words. When [I was] in it I knew what it was, I knew it was wrong. I would try and end it and would say ‘you are a f***ing weirdo, you’re a n**ce basically, go find someone your own age.’
“Then I would calm down and feel bad and go back to her.”
Ms Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, 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.
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