FEMALE TEACHER JAILED FOR HAVING AFFAIR WITH HER 15-YEAR-OLD PUPIL

A teacher who had an affair with a 15-year-old pupil has been jailed for 16 months.

Alice McBrearty kissed and had sex with the boy at her parents’ home, in her car, in the classroom and at an IBIS hotel.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the 23-year-old from Wanstead in London began a relationship with the student after befriending him on Facebook and Instagram, but was reported to police by his concerned father.

And Judge Sheelagh Canavan told McBrearty: ‘You engaged in a full-blown sexual relationship with a 15-year-old child.

‘I accept he was consenting – what 15-year-old schoolboy would turn down such an attractive offer?’

They ‘kissed passionately’ in the classroom, met up three times at her parents home and had sex in her car as well, the court heard.

And as a ‘birthday treat’ she picked the boy up from his home and took him to a nearby garage for oral sex.

Lisa Matthews, prosecuting, said they became ‘besotted’ with each other and the teacher had convinced herself the relationship was a ‘great romance.’

Several members of staff raised concerns and repeatedly warned her that she was getting too close the pupil but the affair continued.

As she jailed McBrearty, who now delivers parcels for Amazon, Judge Sheelagh Canavan told her the case was a ‘spectacular fall from grace’.