TEACHER JAILED Lincolnshire tutor jailed after grooming and sexually abusing 15-year-old boy

A private tutor who groomed and sexually abused a 15-year-old boy while helping him prepare for his GCSEs has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Emily Drury, 26, targeted the teenager while acting as his tutor and repeatedly engaged in sexual activity with him between May and June last year.

Lincoln Crown Court heard Drury had seen the boy drinking with a friend before the inappropriate relationship developed.

She later left him a handwritten note containing £20 which read: “I enjoy every piece of you… Here’s £20 just in case… Your Em xoxo.”

Following the final incident, Drury reportedly whispered to the teenager: “You can’t tell anyone about this.”

The boy initially agreed to keep it secret but later confided in friends and sent them a photograph of Drury.

Rumours subsequently spread, and the school contacted police.

Officers examining the teenager’s phone discovered messages and evidence relating to Drury’s conduct.

In a victim impact statement, the boy said Drury had told him her marriage was failing and that she was “obsessed” with him.

He said he later realised he had been manipulated into “emotions and situations no child should have to experience.”

Drury, from Mablethorpe, was arrested in June last year and later pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual activity with a child.

Defending, Jeremy Janes told the court Drury had entered what he described as an “uncharacteristic, fantastical and unreal relationship” which had cost her the teaching career she had hoped would last a lifetime.

Sentencing her, Judge James House KC said a prison sentence was unavoidable, particularly given the abuse took place as the teenager was approaching his GCSE examinations.

He said: “She was the adult, he was the child.”

The judge added: “This was not simply a single indiscretion.”

Drury, who had no previous convictions, was jailed for four years and six months.

She was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for life, made subject to a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and handed a five-year restraining order.

Detective Constable Julie Jode described Drury’s behaviour as “despicable”, saying she had abused a position of authority to target and manipulate a child who should have been able to trust her.