A PE teacher who groomed two teenage girls and had sex with one of her victims in a store room after befriending them on an internet messaging site has been jailed for 18 months.

Sandrine Brown, 31, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to one charge of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust, and five further counts of sexual activity with a child.

The judge in the case said that Brown, who worked at a Warwickshire school, had abused her position and taken advantage of her victims in a "weak and self-indulgent" manner.

Ordering Brown to register as a sex offender for ten years and serve up to half of her jail term in custody, Judge Richard Griffith-Jones told her:

Prosecutor Graeme Simpson said that Brown's victims were aged between 13 and 17 at the time of the offences, which took place at her home, in a car and at a hotel.

One of the victims felt she had been manipulated and taken advantage of, emotionally and sexually, while the other believed she had been targeted at an impressionable age.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, one of the complainants said she felt "that she was groomed into thinking that she was gay when she had never looked at the same sex in that way before".

Lee Marklew, Brown's defence barrister, said his client - who has no previous convictions - hoped her victims could find closure and "some peace" after the case.

Brown had a history of depression, he said, adding that she had undergone counselling and was socially isolated at the time of the offences and "having difficulty coping".