Married teacher, 35, is found guilty of sex with her 15-year-old pupil

 

A married teacher faces up to five years in jail after being found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old pupil she spotted at a school sports day and added on Snapchat to send flirty texts.

 

Kandice Barber, 35, was found to have taken the underage boy to a field, kissed him on the neck next to a bale of hay and whispered, 'What do you want to do now?' before having full intercourse with him.

 

The mother-of-three's lawyer had claimed she was too short at just 5ft tall to have sex with the boy standing up as the teacher lied that her packed calendar meant she was 'too busy' to have slept with him.

 

She had bombarded him with messages including one where she asked him 'Do you like boobs or bum?', and sent him a photo of herself on a bed surrounded by sex toys.

 

But Barber - who has now been bailed prior to sentencing - was found out after a topless pictures she had sent her victim was circulated around so much it ended up being passed to the head teacher of their school.

 

This was Barber's second trial, after she was convicted in September of sending the boy topless pictures of herself on Snapchat between September and October 2018 but acquitted of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust.

 

Today, the supply teacher, of Wendover, Bucks, was found guilty of one count of causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity, as the judge warned her 'custody is inevitable'. She was found not guilty of two further counts of the same charge.

 

Barber showed no emotion when the verdicts were announced following 10 hours and 39 minutes of jury deliberation, staring blankly across the courtroom.

 

Her delivery worker husband, Daniel, who was watching proceedings remotely in a side room, fumed after the guilty verdict: 'It's a joke.' When Barber emerged at the court entrance he gripped her hand the moment he saw her.

 

The two then walked hand in hand to a court office where the judge ordered them to wait until a date is set for her sentencing on Friday or next Monday.     

 

Nadia Chbatt, Barber's barrister, was carrying out a different professional commitment today, and the judge gave the teacher bail and let her walk free from court before her sentencing.

 

Barber's husband, Daniel (left) and his wife at the court.

The judge told Barber: 'I am not going to proceed to sentence immediately. I totally accept that you should have Ms Chbatt, who was your trial counsel, present.

 

'I am going to bail you until the next occasion that will either be tomorrow morning or indeed Monday morning and you must attend Aylesbury Crown Court.

 

'If you fail to attend you will commit a second offence of failure to surrender and what follows from that is that the police can then arrest you and bring you by force.'

 

Earlier the court heard how Barber, a supply teacher at the Princes Risborough School in Buckinghamshire, had approached her victim at a sports day event when she added him as a 'friend' on social media.

 

She then started texting the boy - said to be 'obsessed' with her - and would tell him when she was 'hopping into the shower' or 'taking a bath'.

 

By then Barber had arranged to meet him and had sex with him behind the back of her devoted delivery firm worker husband Daniel.

 

In court she had lied her busy schedule on that day meant it would have been impossible.

 

She also told the boy she would 'bring him down with her' if the relationship was discovered, and that she was pregnant with his child, the court heard.

 

'Do you like boobs or bum?'

 

'You have a bigger penis than my husband'

 

'When I'm teaching, let's see if we can make each other the horniest we can without the others knowing'

 

In a previous trial in September last year at Aylesbury, Barber was convicted by a majority verdict of 10 to two of sexual communication with a child between Sep 27, 2018, and October 20, 2018, relating to topless pictures she sent to the same victim.

 

She was also convicted by the same majority verdict of causing a child to watch a sexual act by a person in a position of trust, from October 20, 2018, to January 31, 2019, where she sent the victim a video of herself performing a sex act while surrounded by sex toys at a time when the victim was aged 16 years.

 

Barber had been acquitted of one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity by a person in a position of trust during the same dates.

 

Jurors at Aylesbury Crown Court heard previously how the teacher, who has school-age children of her own, had later met up with the boy for two other illicit trysts and sent him pictures of herself topless, which were then widely shared around the Princes Risborough School.