A married teacher from Wendover is behind bars after she was convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old schoolboy.

Kandice Barber, 35, was warned she faces a jail sentence after she was found guilty on Thursday of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity following a retrial.

She was remanded in custody following a bail hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday morning ahead of sentencing on February 15.

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Barber was found not guilty of two further counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

She was convicted in September of sending the boy topless pictures of herself on Snapchat between September and October 2018, but was acquitted of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust.

After the verdicts on Thursday, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Barber had asked to meet the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, outside of school and on one occasion took him to a field, where they had sex.

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Jennie Laskar-Hall senior crown prosecutor at CPS Thames and Chiltern, said: “Barber used her position as a teacher and as a trusted member of the community to abuse a teenage boy in her care.

“The messages were crucial to our case as they showed Barber had initiated contact with the teenager and pursued him, even threatening him when the school investigation began.

“Denying what she had done, Barber has forced the teenager and his family to go through a trial, and I want to commend him for providing the vital evidence we needed to secure today’s conviction.”