Teacher ‘blindfolded schoolboy and tied him to bed’

A ‘gregarious’ teacher had sex with a schoolboy after blindfolding him and tying him to a bed, a court heard. Deborah Franklin, 65, is accused of eight counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 between 1991 and 1995 at a preparatory school in Hertfordshire. In a video recorded interview, the complainant, now in his 40s, said he was nine when he joined Franklin’s class and she became his private tutor. Holding back tears at times, he said: ‘Ms…