Maths instructor Rebecca Joynes, 30, who’s accused of sleeping with two of her 15-year-old pupils is making an attempt to hunt ‘sympathy’ and portray herself because the ‘sufferer’ as a result of she is a lady, court docket hears

 A ‘fairly’ maths instructor who’s accused of getting a sexual relationship with two pupils has been accused of looking for ‘sympathy’ and portray herself because the ‘sufferer’ as a result of she is a lady, a court docket heard.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, is alleged to have ‘groomed’ one 15-year-old boy by taking him on a procuring journey and shopping for him a £345 Gucci belt earlier than that they had intercourse at her condominium.

She then grew to become pregnant after allegedly beginning a relationship with a second 15-year-old boy whereas she was on bail over these allegations.

Joynes denies her relationship with the primary boy – referred to as Boy A – ever grew to become sexual and claims she solely had intercourse with the second boy, Boy B, after he had turned 16 and he or she had been sacked from her job – that means she was not ready of belief.

She’s on trial at Manchester Crown Courtroom the place right this moment the jury heard closing speeches from prosecution and defence counsel.

Joe Allman, prosecuting, stated Joynes’ tears in court docket and her show of a pink child bonnet, which she has worn tucked into the entrance of her trousers for each day of her, trial was an try and win ‘sympathy’ from the jury.

And he accused her of ‘gaslighting’ – a declare she had made concerning the two schoolboys.

‘One of many very first issues her honour stated to you was sympathy has no place in these proceedings,’ he stated.

‘You might be right here to clinically analyse the proof.’

He added: ‘It was a reasonably bare try and garner your sympathy.’

The court docket beforehand heard how court docket proceedings led to Joynes having her child ‘taken off’ her 24 hours after she was born.

 ‘Who’s being gaslighted, and who’s doing the gaslighting?’ he requested.

He stated’ ‘Is it potential her strategy to those proceedings is that she hopes you’ll deal with her in a different way as a result of she is a lady and never a person in the identical scenario.’

Mr Allman stated Joynes hoped she can be ‘handled very in a different way’ and they might see the proof ‘in a different way’ as a result of she is a lady and never a person in the identical scenario.

‘We’ve got to ask within the chilly gentle of day would Miss Joynes and people appearing on her behalf appealed to your sympathy in that means if she’d been a 30-year-old man referred to as Robert Joynes?’ he requested.

He additionally requested whether or not the 2 boys would have ‘been disparaged in the identical means in try and discredit them’ if that they had been two ladies of the same age.

‘Would the defence on Miss Joynes’ behalf – in our theoretical state of affairs on Mr Joynes’ behalf – have urged to you that the ladies the have been those that wished it to occur?’ he requested.

‘It simply might simply not have taken the identical traces in questions as a result of it could have been fairly obscene.’

He stated it was simple to neglect that Joynes was a mature, grownup instructor, he stated, they usually have been two teenage kids and ‘that is how she would love you to see this case.’

‘So, she virtually turns into the sufferer and the boys grow to be the perpetrators,’ he stated.

Police launched an investigation after rumours unfold round her faculty and he or she was subsequently arrested and suspended from her job in October 2021 and sacked in July 2022.

Joynes denies two counts of sexual exercise with Boy A, two counts of sexual exercise with Boy B, and two counts of sexual exercise with Boy B whereas being an individual ready of belief.

The trial continues.