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28/06/2006
Jail sentence for teacher over sex with pupil
A female teacher who had sex with one of her teenage pupils has been sentenced to four years and three months in jail.
Elvira Fairhurst, 49, from Allerton, Liverpool had pleaded guilty to eleven charges of sexual activity with a child at an earlier hearing.
She was given the same sentence for each charge, with the sentences to run concurrently.
At Liverpool Crown Court, it was revealed that Fairhurst began an affair with the boy, who had behavioural problems, just before his fifteenth birthday.
The court heard how Fairhurst paid lots of attention to the boy, which led to kissing and then to the pair having sex in the school stock cupboard, the male toilets and a park.
The affair was eventually exposed when Fairhurst was seen having sex with the boy, while she was on a break from jury service at Liverpool Crown Court.
(KMcA/SP)
Elvira Fairhurst, 49, from Allerton, Liverpool had pleaded guilty to eleven charges of sexual activity with a child at an earlier hearing.
She was given the same sentence for each charge, with the sentences to run concurrently.
At Liverpool Crown Court, it was revealed that Fairhurst began an affair with the boy, who had behavioural problems, just before his fifteenth birthday.
The court heard how Fairhurst paid lots of attention to the boy, which led to kissing and then to the pair having sex in the school stock cupboard, the male toilets and a park.
The affair was eventually exposed when Fairhurst was seen having sex with the boy, while she was on a break from jury service at Liverpool Crown Court.
(KMcA/SP)
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