Teaching assistant Louise Aspinall, who is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy she confided in about her relationship problems

A teaching assistant had sex with a boy of 13 after she confided in him about relationship problems with her husband, a court was told.

Louise Aspinall, 35, a mother-of-two, is said to have first kissed the boy when they ‘wrestled’ over a mobile phone after being left alone together.

The teenager decided to keep quiet about the kiss, but the following week she took his virginity in her own marital bed, it was claimed.

Afterwards the boy relaxed by playing on an Xbox and she also performed sex acts on him on Valentine’s Day, the court heard.

Following their first alleged tryst, the boy claims Aspinall said: ‘Obviously don’t tell anyone. I can get in trouble for it.’

Manchester Crown Court heard the pair met up on three separate occasions for sex.

Rumours began to circulate round the high school where Aspinall taught.

Eventually the boy’s mother heard the rumours and marched him to a police station where he initially denied the allegations.

But the following day he said the rumours were true and he was interviewed by police officers before Aspinall, of Swinton, Manchester, was arrested in December 2013.

Aspinall, a teaching assistant at 750-pupil Swinton High School, appeared in court charged with seven counts of sexual activity with a child under the age of 16.

The offences, which she has denied, are said to have taken place between February and March 2013.

During a video recording of the boy’s first interview with police, played to the jury, he said the first incident took place when the pair were left alone in a house together and started ‘messing around’.

He said: ‘We kissed. I don’t remember when but she took my phone off me and started going through my contacts and she was going to put her number in my phone.

‘She was messing. I was on my knees about she pushed me and fell on top of me and it just happened. We kissed. I just laughed. I was shocked.’

The complainant said he had sex with Mrs Aspinall for the first time around a week later, adding: ‘We were just talking.

‘She was telling me she always argues with her husband and things like that. She didn’t care about him any more.

‘She was telling me she cared about me. She doesn’t like her husband any more but she likes me.’

Aspinall, 35, was a teaching assistant at Swinton High School in Manchester, pictured. She appeared at Manchester Crown Court charged with seven counts of sexual activity with a child under the age of 16

‘She went upstairs and told me to come upstairs for a minute. I went up and jumped on the bed – not for that reason – but jumped on and lay down. She lay next to me and I don’t even know what happened. She started to take her pants off so I took mine off.’

Describing the aftermath of the first alleged occasion, he added: ‘As I was putting my pants back on she said ‘Obviously don’t tell anyone, I can get in trouble for it’. That was it really. I went downstairs and sat down and she had an Xbox so I turned it on.’

The pair allegedly had sex on a further two occasions where Aspinall also performed sex acts on him, the court heard.

Asked why he didn’t tell police about the incidents until around nine months after they are said to have occurred, the boy said: ‘My mum got me thinking about if it was my little sister and a teacher and it got me thinking that it was wrong.

‘I was confused. It was weird. I didn’t really understand it, I just went along with it.’

Andrew Mackintosh, prosecuting, said Aspinall told police she had never kissed or had sex with the boy.