A teacher has been found guilty of four counts of sexual activity with a child following a two-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, was also found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

Joynes had denied she had sex with one schoolboy, boy A, and insisted in court that her relationship with a second teenager, boy B, only began once he had left school and she had been fired from her job – so it wasn’t illegal.

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