A female maths teacher found guilty of having sex with two schoolboys broke down in tears as she was jailed for six-and-a-half years – as one of the teenagers told how he was “coerced, controlled, manipulated” and “sexually abused” by the woman.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, groomed her victims from the age of 15 and had a child with one of the teenagers who said in his victim impact statement he had been in “completely in denial” about the abuse and felt like he had “betrayed someone I love” when he gave evidence against her.

“I was coerced, controlled, manipulated, sexually abused, and mentally abused.”

The boy, who says he left school with straight As, said the abuse “tore my family apart” as they struggled to come to terms with what had happened.

He continued: “I now also really struggle with the idea of going into another relationship, due to the negative experience I have gone through with Rebecca.

“Ultimately, I will forever be Rebecca’s victim and forever linked to her through our child.”

Passing sentence, Judge Kate Cornell told Joynes: “There is a breathtaking arrogance in your conduct, “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.

“Instead, you abused that position of trust and exploited the privileged role for your own sexual gratification.”

Joynes, a former childhood gymnast, had experienced a messy break-up after a nine-year relationship, struggled during the COVID pandemic, and was lonely when she became “flattered” by the attention of boys at the school, her trial heard.