LONDON - Canadian teacher Amy Gehring admits to having sex with a 16-year-old student in a newspaper interview published Sunday, but she denies ever breaking British law by seducing boys below the legal age of consent.

The tabloid Sunday Mirror says the 26-year-old supply teacher had sex with a 16-year-old student at a school she taught at in suburban Surrey, just south of London, after they became friends.

The youth, Jason Butler, told a similar account of a sexual encounter with Gehring in the Daily Mail last week after her trial ended in her acquittal on four counts of indecent assault at another school in Surrey.

In a copyright story, the Sunday Mirror reported that Gehring invited Butler over to her apartment on a Saturday night last fall to watch a movie.

"We started watching a film on the satellite, but before long we were snogging (necking) on the sofa," Gehring is quoted as saying in the newspaper story. "I had not intended to have sex with him."

Gehring, from Otterville, near London, Ont., had sex with Butler two or three times that night, according to the newspaper.

"It was not dirty or raunchy sex," Gehring says in the Sunday Mirror story. "He was loving, caring and sweet."

Gehring was cleared of four counts of indecent assault last week at Guildford crown court in a trial that captured massive interest in Britain's highly competitive tabloid papers, known for their endless appetite for the most salacious stories.

The substitute teacher was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy three times and with his 14-year-old brother once in December 2000 while she taught at their school. A fifth charge involving a second 15-year-old boy was thrown out of court halfway though her 11-day trial.

Gehring has consistently denied having sex with the brothers and repeated her denials in the Sunday Mirror.

She told court she didn't know whether she had sex with the other 15-year-old boy on New Year's Eve at a private house party because she was too drunk to remember what happened.

The charge involving him wasn't pursued in court because Judge John Bull ruled that if they had had sex, no assault could have been committed because the boy had instigated whatever happened between them in the bathroom.

The boy also told his story in an interview with the Sunday People, which he told Gehring's trial he had agreed to do for 5,000 British pounds (about $11,500 Cdn).

None of the boys involved in the court case or the school they attended can be identified under British law.

Newspaper reports have suggested that Gehring could make as much as 35,000 British pounds ($80,000 Cdn) by selling her story to one of the tabloids.

The Sunday Mirror makes no mention of whether it paid for Gehring's interview, but as her trial ended, one of her lawyers said she would consider offers made to her by the papers.

Neither her solicitor nor her literary agent in London could be reached for comment on Sunday.

The four-page story in the Sunday Mirror on Gehring includes a picture of her wearing a long evening dress, sitting sideways across a sofa under the headline: World Exclusive: Sex Case Amy's Story.

Along one side of the page is another headline: "I DID Sleep With a Virgin Age 16 (And I Didn't Hear Him Complaining Much at the Time)."

She is also pictured wearing a pair of jeans and vest, her navel exposed, holding a pointer in her leather-gloved hands.

Many of the details of her life that are in the story were already known and came out during her trial, including how she felt lonely in London after leaving her family's farm outside Otterville to get a new start following the breakup of a longtime relationship on Christmas Day in 1999.