Despite engaging in unprotected sex with Boy B after telling him she could not become pregnant, she surprised him with a baby grow saying "Best Dad" towards the end of their relationship, leaving him distraught. Jurors heard that both boys, who cannot be identified due to their ages, had sent Joynes flirty Snapchat messages before she invited them to her flat for sexual encounters.
Softly spoken and described by the teenagers as "really pretty", Joynes closed her eyes and grimaced, before she began visibly shaking as she stood in the dock as the guilty verdicts were returned by the jury foreman yesterday following a two-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.
In the case of Boy A, she gave him all but one of the digits of her phone number, and as a problem-solving exercise, he had to work out the final digit. They connected on Snapchat and he sent her flirty texts, with the pair agreeing to meet in secret. She then took him shopping and bought him a £350 Gucci belt and went back to her flat in Salford Quays where he said they had sex, with his semen later recovered from her bedsheets by police.
Boy B said sexual activity began when he was 15, with kissing and full sex when he was 16 and while he was still a pupil. Joynes said she had a "breakdown" after she was suspended from her job following the police investigation into her relationship with Boy A, and moved back to her parents' home on the Wirral.
She said she was at a low point when Boy B messaged her on Snapchat asking how she was. "I genuinely thought he cared," Joynes said. Soon Boy B was also messaging, "Get your tits out", Joynes replying, "Not tonight".
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