Teacher jailed for sexually abusing boy, 15, after becoming ‘obsessed’ with him

Former teacher Emily Drury ‘manipulated’ a schoolboy into sex (Picture: BPM Media)

A teacher has been jailed after ‘manipulating’ a teenage boy into sex and abusing her position of trust.

Private tutor Emily Drury, 26, from Mablethorpe, was handed a four-and-a-half-year sentence at Lincoln Crown Court after being arrested last June.

Drury admitted five counts of sexual activity with a child, pleading guilty to the charge of engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with a teenage boy and four charges of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a teenage boy.

However, police said she ‘delayed her guilty plea until the very last opportunity’, prolonging uncertainty and difficulty for the victim.

Judge James House KC said only a custodial sentence was appropriate due to the...