Teacher accused of sex with pupil, 15, ‘kissed him on neck and asked if he wanted sex’, court hears

The 35-year-old mum accused of sexually abusing a student, 15, “kissed him on neck and asked if he wanted sex” after school, a court has heard.

A teacher accused of abusing a schoolboy, allegedly kissed him on the neck minutes after school finished and whispered, “What do you want to do now?” a UK court heard.

Kandice Barber, 35, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, is accused of sexually abusing the 15-year-old in her car before having sex with him in a field and performing a sex act on him in the driveway of her family home. She denies three counts of causing or inciting a child aged under 16 years to engage in a sexual act.

A court today heard she confronted the boy after school and fondled him, asking: “Do you want to have sex?” The Sun reports.

Witnesses claimed she also sent messages on the pupil’s iPhone asking: “Do you prefer boobs or bum?”

Summing up the case, Miss Recorder Bal Dhaliwal said: “He had just finished school.

“She kissed him on the neck, he kissed her back, she then whispered, ‘What do you want to do now?’ She touched him along his clothing and on his abs area.

“She said, ‘Do you want to have sex?’ and he said, ‘I don’t mind’ and then, ‘Yes.’”

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Kandice Barber allegedly kissed a 15-year-old boy on the neck before having sex with him. Picture: Supplied

‘SAVVY’

The court also heard the supply teacher was too “savvy” to be the victim of baseless claims from the boy, as her defence has said.

Instead Ms Barber was accused of “trying to pull the wool” over jurors’ eyes by claiming she had never faced a police interview before.

In fact she had been quizzed by investigators twice in the past, the court heard.

Richard Milne, prosecuting, revealed Ms Barber had been interviewed by the Department of Social Security and convicted over failing to report a change in situation for her benefits in 2013.

The defendant – then known as Kandice Keenan – was also interviewed by Kent Police on suspicion of theft by an employee in 2012, when she was bookkeeping for a dance studio.

Mr Milne told Amersham Law Courts: “Ms Barber is smart, she is not a fool, she is savvy, she is an adult, she is a teacher, she was in a teaching role at the school.

“Was she being given the run around by this boy simply making all of this up?

“She gave a no comment interview and a prepared statement effectively denying all of the allegations.

She denies sexually abusing the boy. Picture: Supplied

‘SLIPPED UP’

“You may think she slipped up, she over-egged the pudding when she was explaining away why it was she offered no comment.

“She slipped up, didn’t she, members of the jury, because she had been in precisely the position you may think at least once, certainly by admission if not twice.

“How do you forget that you have been interviewed by Kent Police just a few years before?

“How do you forget that the DSS interviewed you under caution, resulting in a conviction?

“She is smart, members of the jury, she did not forget. She was trying to pull the wool over your eyes.”

Both police and DSS investigations concluded that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Ms Barber, the court heard.

The mum-of-three was a supply teacher at the Princes Risborough School, in Buckinghamshire, when she was accused of having sex with the boy, in late 2018.

The jury has already been told that Ms Barber has been convicted of sending the boy a sexually explicit video.

Her husband Daniel said their marriage is as ‘strong as ever’. Picture: Supplied

Ms Barber’s husband, Daniel, 38, earlier told the court his relationship with his wife was “as strong as ever”, adding he had “full faith” in her, The Sun reports.

He also expressed confusion over the fact Ms Barber has been convicted of sending the boy an explicit video, claiming, “There is no video.”

“There was no evidence of a video, so I cannot react to something I cannot see,” he told the court on Friday.

The court heard Mr Barber had two children from a previous relationship and his wife had three. He denied his wife had been unhappy in their relationship.

The trial continues.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission