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Teacher accused of having sex with pupil made suspicious calls, says ex-boyfriend Teacher accused of having sex with pupil admitted flirting with him
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The former boyfriend of a teacher accused of having sex with a pupil in the toilet of a plane after a school trip has told a court that he caught her making suspicious phone calls urging someone to be discreet. A teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old pupil in a plane toilet admitted to police she had flirted with him, a jury has heard.
Andrew Hall claimed he heard Eleanor Wilson, a science teacher, saying to whoever was on the phone: “I know you won’t tell anybody” and “I know I can trust you.” Eleanor Wilson, 29, told detectives she had given the boy her mobile telephone number and sent him “flirty texts” but said allegations she had had sex with him made her “sick”.
Wilson, 29, allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old boy and then told him she was pregnant with their child but was going to have an abortion. Wilson told police the alleged incident on the plane did not happen and that during the flight she had instead been looking after students who were ill before falling asleep.
Hall told Bristol crown court it was “incredibly unlikely” that the child was his and also said he did not hear about the allegations against Wilson until he read about them in the media. The prosecution at Bristol crown court has claimed that the intimate relationship continued following their return from the school trip. Wilson allegedly informed the teenager she was pregnant with their child but was going to have an abortion.
Wilson told police: “The whole time I thought it was a friendship that had been flirty. I didn’t touch him. We had blurred the lines about what a teacher and pupil should talk about.
“He kept coming to the office and talking about stuff and I told him I was pregnant as I had already told one of my colleagues and had no friends and already knew my boyfriend didn’t want it.”
Wilson told detectives the boy had a “difficult adolescence” and thought he treated her like a big sister. The science teacher added: “I felt like he needed looking after a bit.”
She recalled how the boy had given her chocolate and flowers when they visited Nando’s with other members of the trip after returning to the UK. Afterwards she gave the boy a lift home, used the toilet at his house and gave him her phone number.
When police asked her why she did that, she replied: “Because I’m an idiot.”
Wilson, of Dursley, Gloucestershire, denies sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.Wilson, of Dursley, Gloucestershire, denies sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
Hall told the jury that he caught Wilson having a muffled telephone conversation with someone. “I opened the door and Ellie went to hang up the phone immediately,” he said. “I asked who she was speaking to and she denied she was on the phone, which made me more suspicious. The court heard that analysis of the boy’s mobile phone revealed that between August 2015 – when the alleged plane incident took place – and March 2016 there 339 “contacts” between him and Wilson, whose number was saved as “Smurfette” in his contacts book. This included 295 texts. The court heard it was not possible to retrieve the contents of these messages.
“She was very aggressive. I was bemused. I continued to challenge her and eventually she told me she had been on the phone to her brother. She told me that I could look at the call history but then she drunkenly left the house. It was bizarre. She was upset and quite aggressive and she just walked out.” Wilson’s former boyfriend, Andrew Hall, told the court that he caught her making suspicious phone calls urging someone to be discreet.
Hall said he went looking for Wilson and when he found her she was on the phone again but ended the call and showed him the call history, which only listed her brother’s number. “It just made me more suspicious,” he said. Hall claimed he heard Wilson saying to whoever was on the phone: “I know you won’t tell anybody” and “I know I can trust you.”
The court also heard that analysis of the boy’s mobile phone revealed that between August 2015 – when the alleged plane incident took place – and March 2016 there 339 “contacts” between him and Wilson, whose number was saved as “Smurfette” in his contacts book. Of Wilson’s pregnancy, Hall said it would be “incredibly unlikely” that he was the father, but added: “We were still having sex every few months. We could have had intercourse around the time of the school trip.”
This included 295 texts. The court heard it was not possible to retrieve the contents of these messages.
Of Wilson’s pregnancy, Hall said it would be “incredibly unlikely” that he was the father of the child, but added: “We were still having sex every few months. We could have had intercourse around the time of the school trip.”
Hall told the jury that he and Wilson had been together for nine years but split in August 2016, a year after the school trip. He learned that Wilson had undergone an abortion only when detectives told him last year.Hall told the jury that he and Wilson had been together for nine years but split in August 2016, a year after the school trip. He learned that Wilson had undergone an abortion only when detectives told him last year.
He also said that she did not tell him about the allegations of the inappropriate relationship and he found out only when he saw news reports of proceedings brought by the National College for Teaching and Leadership. He also said that she did not tell him about the allegations of the inappropriate relationship and he found out only when he read about them in the media.
The trial continues.The trial continues.
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