Schoolboy, 15, told police that 'anyone in my position' would have gone back to 'good-looking' maths teacher's luxury apartment for sex after she gave him her number with final digit missing, court hears

'Anyone in my position' would have agreed to go back to his 'good-looking' maths teacher's apartment and had sex with her, a schoolboy allegedly groomed through the purchase of a designer belt told police.

Rebecca Joynes' appearance was 'definitely' the talk of pupils in her class, the boy said in a police interview played to jurors on the second day of the 30-year-old's trial for sex offences.

She allegedly went on to have sex with a second pupil around 30 times while on bail awaiting trial in relation to the first teenager, becoming pregnant by him and having his baby.

Dressed in a white blouse and black trousers, Joynes sat in the dock today at Manchester Crown Court using a paper pad to take notes.

Jurors heard the 15-year-old – referred to as Boy A – tell a detective the pair had arranged to meet up after she told him the first ten digits of her mobile phone number.

Boy A said he and his friends had previously jokingly pestered her for it and asked her if she was in a relationship.

He tried calling each possible permutation for the final number as the Monday morning maths class went on, and when he reached four 'I heard her phone go off', he said.

Boy A said his recollection was that he sent her a message that evening reading simply 'Hi', but got no response.

At a maths lesson later in the week, Boy A said he sent her a further text along the lines of: 'You ignored me.'

This time he said Joynes responded, and they began messaging 'properly', eventually arranging to meet up and go to her Salford Quays apartment after school on the Friday.

Jurors were yesterday told that Joynes accepts picking Boy A up in her Audi, buying him a £345 Gucci belt from Selfridges in the Trafford Centre, and then taking him to her apartment where he stayed the night in October 2021.

But she denies sexual activity took place.

She also claims her sexual relationship with Boy B – which ended when she told him she was pregnant – only began after he had turned 16.

Asked by the detective who Joynes was, Boy A replied: 'She was my maths teacher.'

The teenager said Joynes was 'obviously good-looking', saying it was 'definitely' something he and his classmates talked about.

'Before I even had her [as a teacher] everyone would be speaking about her, saying she's good-looking, whatever,' he added.

Asked why he thought Joynes had given him all but one digit of her phone in class, Boy A replied: 'It sounds as if she probably wanted me to message her.

'That's how it comes across.'

Boy A said he told a friend he was in contact with their teacher, and at his suggestion added her as a Snapchat contact because 'messages delete'.

But he said when Joynes first suggested meeting up, he replied 'you're deffo like joking'.

However he said Joynes replied that she 'literally wasn't' joking.

Asked what he had expected to happen after she picked him up, Boy A replied: 'To be honest, I wasn't expecting that to happen, what happened.

'I didn't expect that to happen, but it did.

'I feel like anyone in my position when we arranged to meet would – if you're my age and in my year.

'She is good-looking.'

He said after school on the Friday he packed 'my stuff to stay over – shorts, T-shirt, sliders, clean underwear' before she collected him from a row of shops in her white Audi.

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 continues.