While other members of staff enjoyed attending work events, Rebecca Joynes would always decline - preferring instead to socialise with the pupils she was entrusted to teach. Joynes, 30, has today been sentenced to six and a half years for six counts of sexual activity with a child, including two counts while she was a person in a position of trust. During her trial at Manchester Crown Court, jurors heard how Joynes, from Heswall on the Wirral, was 'over friendly' with pupils in her care, and abused her position as a 'nice' and 'fit' teacher.
Apparently concerned with being a 'cool girl', Joynes was seen 'strutting' around the corridors of the Greater Manchester school, chatting with the children about topics such as fashion. The paedo teacher even earned an inappropriate nickname among the kids - 'Bunda Becky' - a slang term which made reference to her bottom. At the time of Joynes' conviction in May, a school source told The Times that, although they'd never seen the sex offender acting inappropriately with the teenage boys in question, she had noticed her walking along the corridor as if it was 'a fashion walkway', with a cardigan slung around her shoulders.
The insider said Joynes behaved 'as if she was one of the Year 11s'. Joynes' 'Bunda Becky' persona was a far cry from the 'quiet' gymnastics champ those who knew her during her own teenage years remember. Speaking of Joynes' hidden dark side, a Heswall resident previously told the Liverpool Echo: "She struck me as someo.
