Jail for teacher who tied schoolboy to the bed

A teacher who had sex with a schoolboy after blindfolding him and tying him to a bed has been jailed for seven years. Deborah Franklin, 65, was found lying in bed with the boy by his sister and she was regularly seen by other pupils holding his hands during school trips. Married Franklin denied but was unanimously convicted by a jury at St Albans Crown Court of eight counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 between 1991 and…