Revealed: Text messages maths trainer, 30, despatched to schoolboy, 15

The texts messages sent by a female maths teacher accused of sleeping with two pupils have been revealed. 

Rebecca Joynes, 30, is accused of having a sexual relationship with two pupils, including one who got her pregnant while she was on bail awaiting trial.

Although she factory reset her phone, police officers were able to retrieve phone messages from the network provider.

Text messages from Joynes showed she said one boy ‘better’ come to her place, and told him ‘it’s only you’ as the pair joked about another student joining them when they met up.

That schoolboy – known as Boy A – claims Joynes took him to Selfridges at the Trafford Centre and bought him a £345 belt before taking him back to her flat.

The prosecution allege that the pair then had sex twice after the teenager had lied to his mother about staying over at a friend’s house.

Joynes is on trial at Manchester Crown Court, and today Boy A denied claims that he ‘made up’ the allegations against Joynes because she had rejected his advances.

It is the third day in a row she has turned up to court wearing a baby’s bonnet tucked into the waistband of her trousers. 

Boy A, who was allegedly ‘groomed’ by his maths teacher, told his mother that claims the pair had sex were ‘just a stupid conversation’ on a group chat that ‘got out of control’, the court heard. 

In a video cross-examination, Katy Appleton, defending, asked the teenager: ‘Were you concerned what your friends would say if they found out she had turned you down.’

‘No,’ he replied.

Ms Appleton, who suggested the boy’s claims about Joynes had boosted his ‘status’ at school, asked whether he had felt ’embarrassed’ and ‘angry’ that Joynes had ‘rejected’ him, which he also denied.

She then asked: ‘Did you feel you became more important or more popular as a result of what you say happened between you and Rebecca Joynes?’

‘No,’ the boy the replied.

Earlier, the court heard how the boy had attended ‘booster’ maths lessons with Joynes and he admitted that he had joked with friends and his mother that she was ‘fit’.

Under further questions from Ms Appleton, the boy agreed that he had gone to Joynes flat because ‘he wanted something sexual to happen between them’.

But he denied asking her how many people she had slept with, and Joynes responding by saying ‘probably not as many as you have’.

It’s claimed the boy then said: ‘So, not many then – three.’

Ms Appleton asked the boy whether he had felt ’embarrassed’ about lying about having sex with Joynes after she had ‘reluctantly’ allowed him to stay the night at her flat as long as he slept on the couch.

But the boy denied this.

Ms Appleton said it was the defence’s case that ‘at no point’ did Joynes engage in sexual activity with the boy.

The boy’s friend, the court heard, had initially covered for him by going along with the story that he was staying with him.

But he later became concerned and asked his mother to drive them to collect the boy from Joynes’ flat.

He told the boy that Joynes had ‘groomed’ him, but he replied: ‘No I haven’t I was loving it.’

The friend’s mother then called the boy’s ‘hysterical’ mother to tell her what had happened and she had contacted the school.

The police were also informed, although the boy initially told his mum that it was ‘just a stupid conversation’ on a group chat that had ‘got out of control’.

Police launched an investigation in October 2021 and Joynes was subsequently charged over Boy A and suspended by her school.

She appeared at court and was bailed on condition she did not contact any child under 18, but the prosecution claim it then emerged she’d been in a long-term sexual relationship with a second pupil, Boy B.

It’s alleged she ‘brazenly’ pursued the relationship while on bail awaiting trial in relation to Boy A and had sex with Boy B around 30 times and she became pregnant and had his child.

Joynes is alleged to have had sex with the 16-year-old – known as Boy B – ‘at least 30 times’ at her flat after they began messaging each other on Snapchat.

In a video interview he gave to police, he said he knew Joynes had been suspended by her school after she was arrested over another boy – Boy A – in October 2021 and her bail conditions stated she should not contact any child under 18.

He said his initial messaging conversations with Joynes weren’t ‘flirty or sexual’.

But he sent her one message saying ‘get your t*** out’, or something along those lines, and she had replied: ‘Not tonight’.

‘So I thought, ”Oh right, she will”,’ he said.

He said Joynes had later sent him a photo of her bum in just a pair of knickers.

‘As a 16-year-old lad I thought I was in there,’ he said.

He said their relationship progressed and he asked if they could meet up and Joynes invited him to her flat in Salford.

‘I went to hers and it was quite awkward at first because she didn’t want to get caught and I was nervous because I was meeting up with someone double your age and I’ve known for years,’ he said.

He said when he arrived at the flat he asked Joynes: ‘Don’t I even get a kiss.’

They had kissed but Joynes had told she him she didn’t know if they should ”before you leave school”.

But they had carried on kissing before going to her bedroom and having sex, he said.

He said that was the first time they had sex but they went on to have sex at least 30 times in ‘numerous different places’.

The boy said he was aware that Joynes had been arrested and bailed over allegations relating to Boy A, who sat next to him in class.

He said he ‘didn’t think’ Joynes would meet up him with because she’d been arrested but they had started meeting around the time he was taking his GCSEs.

‘I though she liked me because she was sending me pictures of her bum,’ he said.

‘I was asking if it would progress but she wasn’t comfortable because I was still at school.

‘But it kind of happened anyway.’

He said Joynes had told him that she bail conditions meant she couldn’t contact any child under 18.

But one day she had just said ‘yes’ when he asked to meet up and she had driven from her mum’s cafe in Wirral, where she was working at the time, to see him.

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 trial, expected to last two weeks, continues.