A STUDENT teacher at a top Merseyside school has denied having sex with one of her pupils.

Classics teacher Hannah McIntyre, 25, is accused of sleeping with the 16-year-old boy after buying him cider.

At Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, McIntyre, who worked at Merchant Taylors’ boys school, in Crosby, described the allegations as “absolute rubbish”.

The 25-year-old said the boy and two of his friends “barged” into her flat one night.

She said: “They knocked on my door and I thought ‘what the hell is going on here?’

“I was very surprised to see them but they barged right past me and into the flat.”

McIntyre said the boys were drunk and boisterous and told the jury one of them was a disruptive pupil in her classes.

She said: “I had wanted to be a decent teacher who was not heavy-handed but I think, to them, I became a joke teacher.

“They thought they could get away with anything and not get into trouble.”

The jury was previously told the boys called at her home one Friday night, in January, 2008, four months after McIntyre started her job, because they thought it would be “a laugh”.

She said when they entered her home they roamed through the rooms poking fun at her possessions, leaving her feeling “overwhelmed”.

She said: “I asked them to leave. I said they should not be here.

“I wanted to be non-confrontational, but they just took no notice.”

McIntyre, of Winstanley Road, Waterloo, said she bought them bottles of cider in the hope they would then leave her alone.

She said in the end, she went to bed, leaving the boys in her living room.

She added: “At that point, I did not have any of my colleagues’ mobile phone numbers, I did not even know anybody in Liverpool because I had just moved here. I went to bed because it was quite a big hint to get them to leave. I was very anxious and bed seemed to be the best hiding place.”