Teacher weeps as sex clip shown

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A drama teacher who performed a sex act on a 15-year-old pupil wept as jurors were shown a video of the incident.

Rebecca Poole claims she was forced into the incident at her Birmingham school when the teenager threatened her with a screwdriver.

The boy alleges he had sex with the 26-year-old on up to eight occasions, Birmingham Crown Court has heard.

Ms Poole denies three charges of sexual activity with a child and one of abusing a position of trust.

Footage on phone

Police arrested the recently-married teacher from May Lane, Hollywood, Birmingham, in October last year after the boy's parents found footage of the sex act on his mobile phone.

She claimed that she had had no sexual contact with her alleged victim but after seeing the videoclip she agreed that she recognised herself in the footage but said it was not in context.

Jurors heard that the boy told Ms Poole he would be stabbed or shot if he did not get £100.

He told me that he would decide when enough was enough and that he would tell (the school's headmaster) that I had been having a relationship with him Rebecca Poole

She said she had also given him £300 because his brother was a "big gangster".

Ms Poole also claimed that she did not tell anyone about the assault because it would have been her word against that of the boy.

Describing the incident shown on the video, she said she told the boy that "enough is enough" and she would not lend him any more money.

She said: "He told me that he would decide when enough was enough and that he would tell (the school's headmaster) that I had been having a relationship with him."

He grabbed her hair and then pulled out a screwdriver and laughed saying: "I have got you", she added.

He warned her not to go to the police saying he had an influential family who make people "disappear".

The trial was adjourned until Friday.