Jury warned over 'schoolboy's dream'

Amy Gehring denies four charges of indecent assault

A court has been told a female teacher's sex with male pupils was not a "schoolboy's dream".

Prosecutor Stella Reynolds made the comments during her closing speeches to the jury in the case against supply teacher Amy Gehring.

The 26-year-old is accused of indecent assault on two boys at a Surrey school where she was teaching.

Miss Gehring denies all of the charges.

Amy Gehring was angry with Victim A. She was plain old jealous

Prosecutor Stella Reynolds

Miss Reynolds said: "No doubt there is much public opinion which would see this as being a schoolboy's dream.

"For the boys, this has not been a schoolboy's dream."

She added the parents of the boys were entitled to know their children would be protected from the seduction of an older teacher.

And she called boy 'A' the lynchpin to everything that had occurred.

She told the jury: "Victim A said he became almost afraid when Amy Gehring kept touching him at the New Year's Eve party.

'Plain jealous'

"He was the one that all the girls fell for. He was the one that she wanted.

"But he was not prepared for all the attention from her."

She added that Miss Gehring made the most of the opportunity of walking home with boy 'B' by having sex with him.

Miss Reynolds added: "Amy Gehring was angry with Victim A. She was plain old jealous."

However defence barrister Andrew Thompson suggested that the whole case was a product of "too much testosterone."

He claimed Miss Gehring had already been sentenced by the schoolchildren, an opinion fuelled by rumours of her having sex with yet another boy - 'C'.

'Powerful rumours'

He reminded the jury that a charge against Mss Gehring involving this boy had been dropped due to insufficient evidence.

He claimed the rumours, initially started by 'A', became too powerful to stop after the police had been informed.

Mr Thompson suggested that the boy, described as a "jack the lad", enjoyed the attention he had received.

He told the jury: "Victim A said he enjoyed telling people the story.

"It enhanced his reputation amongst his friends."

Family competitiveness

He suggested 'B' made up his story about having sex with Gehring in an alleyway because there was a competitiveness between the two brothers.

Attacking statements which suggested that Gehring removed her boots, trousers and underwear and had sex with the boy in the alleyway, Mr Thompson told the jury: "It is so untrue that it is incredible that she had sex bare feet on the wet floor in an alleyway in late December."

He described Gehring as a teacher who had made mistakes but reminded the jury this was not a disciplinary hearing.

Mr Thompson added: "She accepts she was immature, naive and too ready to make friends."

Neither the boys nor the school can be identified for legal reasons.

The trial continues.