Moment paedophile maths trainer Rebecca Joynes is arrested by police

This is the moment a sex predator teacher feigns shock and asks police ‘are you serious, how’s it come so far from school’ as she was arrested at her luxury flat for having sex with a 15-year-old boy.

Rebecca Joynes opened her door to the officers, who then told her she was under arrest on ‘suspicion of sexual activity with a child’.

The 30-year-old maths teacher appeared to remain calm but shocked throughout her arrest, having earlier been sent home from school after police spoke to the boy.

The clip, released by investigators today as Joynes was sentenced, began with Joynes opening her door to officers on October 18, 2021 and saying: ‘Hello, you OK?’.

The male officer said: ‘Hi, we’re looking for Rebecca.’ Joynes answered: ‘Yeah, it’s me.’ 

On being asked if they can come in, the smiling teacher – barefoot and still wearing her school lanyard, her shoulder exposed above her black top – brightly replies: ‘Of course you can.’

At that point the female officer takes over, saying: ‘So obviously given what’s happened, I know you’ve been sent home from school today, erm, so you are under arrest at the moment.’

Joynes’s face falls as she asks: ‘Why?’

‘On suspicion of sexual activity with a child,’ the policewoman responds, as the paedophile teacher’s mouth gapes open.

‘Are you serious?’ asks Joynes, glancing over in fake incredulity at the male officer.

After being cautioned, she asks ‘how’s it come so far’ since she was sent home from school hours earlier.

The female officer replies that her arrest is necessary ‘to protect the vulnerable’ and support a ‘prompt and effective investigation’.

Three days before the footage was filmed, on October 15, 2021, Joynes had driven the youngster – referred to as Boy A – to her Salford Quays apartment in her white Audi after buying him a £345 Gucci belt at the Trafford Centre and had sex with him twice.

The next morning, a Saturday, Joynes left early to go and work at her parents’ tea room in upmarket Heswall on the Wirral, leaving Boy A to sleep in.

She left the keys to the flat – complete with a distinctive Audi keyring – so he could let himself out of the front gate, arranging for him to hand them the following Monday when she taught his maths class.

Other footage revealed today showed the moment Joynes ‘groomed’ the boy by buying him a £345 Gucci belt before taking him back to her luxury apartment for sex.

The ‘crystal clear’ footage – revealed today for the first time after it was shown to a jury at Manchester Crown Court – shows Joynes smirking as she uses her bank card to pay for the designer accessory at Selfridges at the Trafford Centre.

Joynes then drove the schoolboy back to her one-bed apartment in Salford Quays where they had sex twice.

The victim, referred to as Boy A, said during a maths lesson at his Greater Manchester school in October 2021 that she set him a challenge to guess her mobile phone number, giving him ten of the 11 digits.

Jurors at Joynes’s trial in May were told 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, Manchester Crown Court heard.

‘At first he thought she was joking,’ prosecutor Joe Allman said.

But after lessons 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.

Joynes – wearing a turquoise jacket – can be seen on CCTV 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 footage showed the pair arriving at her apartment. 

Despite her telling the boy ‘No-one better find out’, he messaged a friend over Snapchat to tell him he had ‘just had sex with Ms Joynes’, jurors were told.

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

The following morning Joynes left first, telling him to give her the keys to the flat when she saw him in class on the Monday as she was spending the weekend with her parents.

He had left his phone charger and Airpods behind so they arranged to swap the items when they were back at school.

After rumours of the encounters circulated, a call was made to Childline, and on the Monday morning police spoke to Boy A at school.

He was found to have her keys and the Gucci belt. Joynes was initially sent home before police arrested her at her flat later that day.

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

But while she was awaiting trial, Joynes ‘quite brazenly’ embarked on a long-term sexual relationship with a second boy.

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.

On May 17, Joynes was convicted of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust.

Joynes groomed the youngsters from the age of 15, the court heard, and was on bail for sexual activity with the first child, boy A, when she began having sex with the second, boy B, who she went on to become pregnant by.

Neither teenager can be identified.

Petite, softly spoken and described by the teenagers as ‘really pretty’, Joynes closed her eyes and grimaced before she began shaking as she stood in the dock as the guilty verdicts were returned by the jury foreman after a two-week trial.

Her mother and father, sitting in the public gallery, made no reaction but yards away the parents of the boys stifled cheers as Joynes was convicted.

Joynes joined the school in 2018 as part of the Teach First recruitment scheme after studying for a sports and exercise science degree.

She said she was 28, had undergone a messy break-up after the end of a nine-year relationship, struggled during the Covid pandemic, and was lonely when she became ‘flattered’ by the attention of teenage schoolboys.

Joynes – who was referred to as Bunda Becky by the boys, with some making inappropriate comments to her – laughed their behaviour off instead of shutting it down.

She said boy A got her mobile number after she gave him all but one of the digits, and as a problem-solving exercise he had to work out the final digit. They connected on Snapchat and he sent her flirty texts with the pair agreeing to meet in secret.

Boy A told his mother his teacher was ‘well fit’ and all the boys fancied her, which she dismissed as a ‘typical teenage’ boy’s comment.

Two weeks later the youngster lied to her that he was staying at a friend’s house to play computer games after school finished on Friday.

Instead Joynes picked him up near his home in her Audi A1, took him to the Trafford Centre and bought him a £350 Gucci belt.

On the way Joynes laughed and said, ‘Oh shut up!’ when boy A, referring to driving, said, ‘I’m not old enough’.

At her flat they kissed then had sex twice, with Joynes telling the boy ‘No one had better find out’.

The next day the boy’s mother noticed a love-bite on her son’s neck which he dismissed as ‘nothing’.

However, boy A had taken a photo on his Snapchat and rumours began to circulate as police received a tip-off.

On Monday morning, officers were at the school with boy A’s ‘distraught’ mother who stormed into reception after being told her son had spent the night with a teacher.

Boy A initially told police it was just ‘banter’ between the boys that got out of hand, as Joynes was suspended and a police investigation began.

His semen was later recovered from bed sheets seized at the teacher’s flat.

She was bailed on condition she have no unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.

Joynes said she then had a ‘breakdown’ and moved back to her parents on the Wirral.

She was at a low point when boy B messaged her on Snapchat asking how she was. ‘I genuinely thought he cared,’ Joynes said.

Soon boy B messaged her ‘Get your t**s out’, and Joynes replied ‘Not tonight’.

She moved to Salford Quays and boy B visited, with Joynes straddling him and they kissed, but she suggested waiting until he was 16 before going any further.

After his birthday boy B lied to his parents, telling them he was going to watch a Manchester United match, but instead again went to Joynes’ apartment.

He told jurors he was ‘nervous’ when he lost his virginity to Joynes, warning her: ‘Don’t expect anything big, I’m only 16.’

As he stripped Joynes said: ‘Oh! You lied to me.’

He later told police he regarded the relationship as ‘friends with benefits’ and said they regularly had sex while he was still at school.

He said Joynes had told him she could not have a baby and they had unprotected sex, but she later discovered she was pregnant.

The relationship soured, with frequent rows as Joynes became jealous and controlling, he claimed.

In a bid to save the relationship – a day before Joynes was arrested for a second time – she invited boy B round for a ‘date night’ involving an Ann Summers scratchcard of sexual activities, rose petals and hidden notes around her flat, leading to ‘surprises’ which he played along with and followed.

At the end was a babygrow saying Best Dad on the front. ‘I was like, ‘What the f***!’,’ boy B told police.

In a letter to boy B, Joynes wrote: ‘Every inch of you is perfect. You are all I ever dream about.’

She was arrested the next day for breaking her bail conditions and spent five months in custody until she was bailed in November last year, giving birth in early 2024.

Joynes wore baby clothes tucked into her trousers while coming into court, wiping tears away as she told how the baby was taken away from her 24 hours after giving birth.

The bonnet was a ‘naked attempt to garner sympathy’, prosecutor Joe Allman said.

Joynes denied any sexual activity with boy A took place and said that when he stayed at her flat he slept on the sofa.

She said sexual activity with boy B only began after he had left school and she had been dismissed from her job, so no offence had been committed as she was no longer in a position of authority.

She said she felt lonely, let her guard down and ‘caved in’ to the attention she was getting, making ‘stupid mistakes’ by meeting youngsters out of school, but denied wrongdoing.