Rebecca Joynes: Live updates as former teacher cries while she's jailed for having sex with pupils

A former teacher cried in the dock as she was jailed for having sex with two students she met at a school in Greater Manchester. Rebecca Joynes, 30, went on to have a child with one of the teenage boys after first meeting him when he was 15.

Joynes, of Pensby Road, Wirral, later had sex with the student who is referred to as Boy B - but told him a health issue would make it 'almost impossible' for her to conceive. During a trial, the jury heard the defendant told the teenager about her pregnancy 'to his great shock' after planning a 'date night' with rose petals and love notes, the Manchester Evening News reports.

The teacher had sex with another teenage boy, referred to as Boy A, after buying him a £345 Gucci belt during a shopping spree at Selfridges in the Trafford Centre, before taking the 15-year-old back to her Salford apartment where they had sex. Joynes had 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 but was unanimously found guilty by jurors.

During her sentencing, the court heard a devastating statement written by Boy B who said his parents "broke down every day and night" after learning what Joynes had done to their son. He said: "I was coerced, controlled and sexually abused, it was very upsetting this happened to me and I had little to no support from organisations. For months after the abuse it was a very dark time. I felt backed into a corner, I had just lived a double life for 18 months, and it had a massive mental toll on me and my family."

The court heard Joynes, who has supervised contact with her child two to three times per week, refuses to "accept what she has done", and was described as "emotionally fragile".