Rebecca Joynes LIVE sentencing updates as ex-teacher learns fate after having sex with two pupils

Rebecca Joynes is to be sentenced for having sex with two pupils while she was a teacher. Following a trial in May this year, jurors found the 30-year-old guilty of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child.

The offences concerned two teenage boys she met through her job as a teacher at a Greater Manchester school. The boys - and the school - cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Manchester Crown Court previously heard she took a 15-year-old boy, referred to in press reports of proceedings as 'Boy A', to the Trafford Centre and bought him a £345 Gucci belt from Selfridges, before she took him back to her apartment in Salford, where they had sex.

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She was suspended from her post and was later discovered to have fallen pregnant with a second boy - 'Boy B' - who she met when he was aged 15 before they kissed.

The relationship turned sexual, with Joynes falling pregnant and later having his baby, despite telling him it was 'almost impossible' for her to conceive due to a health issue. He learned she was pregnant, 'to his great shock' after she planned a 'date night' with rose petals and love notes.

She gave him a baby grow with the words 'I love my daddy to the moon and and back' on it. Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, denied four counts of sexual activity with a child; and two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. She was unanimously found guilty by jurors.

Today - Thursday, July 4 - she is to be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court. Follow our live updates from court reporter Amy Walker below…

Turning to personal mitigation, Mr O’Brien said his client has no previous