A teenage boy has described how he was “coerced, controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused” as the Manchester teacher who victimised him was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, was found guilty of six counts of sexual activity with a child, two while in a position of trust, after a trial in May.

The secondary school teacher groomed two pupils from the age of 15, and was on bail for sexual activity with the first child, Boy A, when she began having sex with the second, Boy B, whose child she later gave birth to.

Sentencing Joynes at Manchester crown court, Judge Cornell told the defendant: “There is a breathtaking arrogance in your conduct. You were the adult. You were the person in control, the person who should have known better and entrusted by the school and the boys and by their parents of caring for their sons.