Female tennis coach jailed for abusing pupil

A FEMALE tennis coach was jailed yesterday for two years and nine months for sexually abusing a 13-year-old pupil.

Claire Lyte, 29, was convicted last month on four counts of sexual activity with a pupil at the Lawn Tennis Association Academy at Loughborough University in England.

At the two-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Nigel Gilmour criticised Lyte for lying in order to try and avoid going to jail.