The girl who fled
Yesterday Jeremy Forrest had mouthed 'I love you' to his schoolgirl girlfriend from the dock - she then sobbed and replied 'I love you. I'm so sorry' as he was found guilty of her abduction.
The disgraced maths teacher faces up to seven years in jail when he is sentenced today for taking her on the run for eight days.
It appears they want to resume their relationship as soon as he is free and a series of online messages by the girl have now emerged, in which the teenager openly defended the 30-year-old and their affair.
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Messages: The girl who was abducted by Jeremy Forrest has been posting a series of loving and supportive notes online for her former maths teacher
Caught on camera: Forrest and the girl aboard a ferry from Dover to Calais last September, and she clearly still has feelings for him despite his abduction conviction
Prosecutors at Lewes Crown Court had told the jury that their affair was 'not Romeo and Juliet' and that Forrest was a paedophile satisfying his 'carnal desires'.
Waiting: School teacher Jeremy Forrest is led into Lewes Crown Court for sentencing today, after being found guilty of the abduction of a student
Meanwhile, in a message online she said: 'It's "not Romeo and Juliet?" Of course it's not!
'That's a tragedy and they both f****** died. How moronic!'
Over their four month affair, which started with a classroom kiss, they had sex in his car, home and at hotels, often without contraception, before the 30-year-old took the teenager to France in September last year.
Forrest had abducted the girl when he feared the school and the police were on to them.
Writing about prosecution claims they sometimes had sex eight times a night, she said: 'I’m no Russell Brand. Honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I’m a young girl yes, but I’m no Russell Brand! Honestly in shock!'
As she turned 16 last month, she said: 'Realising that 16 feels exactly the same as being 15. Oh, the irony!'
It has also emerged that the girl was arrested on the second say of Forrest's trial because police had been told she would refuse to give evidence against the man she loved.
She wrote later when she was about to see him in court, the first time since their arrest in Bordeaux, she said: 'Too excited to sleep'.
Her online messages also reveal her feelings while Forrest was arrested and in custody waiting to be tried.
On Christmas Day 2012 she said: 'Still wide awake... thinking about who I am without this Christmas and hoping this will be the last Christmas I have to be!'
After the New Year, on January 3, she said simply: ''I'll always be waiting for you'.
Confirming their plan, a family friend said last night the pair remain ‘desperately in love’.
On the run: Fearing they had been rumbled Forrest drove the girl in his black Ford Fiesta to Dover to cross the Channel
Lies: Forrest's deception after fleeing Britain included producing a CV with a false name - Jack Francis Dean - used to try and get work in Bordeaux
Discovered: The room in the Hotel Huguerie, Bordeaux, France where Jeremy Forrest and the girl stayed during their time in the city
The jury heard how Forrest started grooming the ‘infatuated’ girl while teaching at Bishop Bell Church of England school in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
The maths teacher first kissed her in his classroom when she was just 14. When she turned 15, they swapped topless photos by text and he seduced her at secret meetings at his house while his wife was out.
When other teachers repeatedly warned him against encouraging the girl he told ‘bare faced lies’ and said nothing was going on.
He even telephoned the teenager’s mother to complain about the effect the ‘falsehoods’ could have on his career.
But after police were tipped off last September, the pair fled to France on a ferry in what was described as ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’.
Despite using false names and dyeing their hair, they were caught eight days later in Bordeaux.
The girl was brought home and Forrest was extradited back to Britain. She sat weeping in the public gallery yesterday as the verdict was delivered following an eight-day trial at Lewes Crown Court.
Conviction: Detective Inspector Neil Ralph (left), Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Portia Ragnouth (centre) and Detective Chief Inspector Mark Ling (right), speaking outside Lewes Crown Court after the guilty verdict
She sat behind Forrest’s family in the courtroom, well away from her mother. Afterwards, in the corridor outside the courtroom, mother and daughter did not exchange a glance.
'They still love each other. It has survived his arrest and trial and everything else. Once he is released he plans to go straight to her and restart their relationship'
Family source
Before she gave evidence last week, Forrest had not seen the girl since his arrest in September.
He telephoned his father from jail the night after seeing his lover give evidence to tell him: ‘I feel normal for the first time.’
The family source said: ‘They still love each other. It has survived his arrest and trial and everything else.
'Once he is released he plans to go straight to her and restart their relationship. The family will support Jeremy whatever his decision.’
Recovering: Forrest’s father, 60-year-old Jim (left), collapsed yesterday outside the courtroom as he waited for the judge to start summing up the case. He was taken to hospital by ambulance (right) but later returned home
The source added: ‘After she was brought home to Britain the schoolgirl wrote to his parents to apologise for what happened. She said she felt safer with Jeremy than she ever did at home, at school or with her friends.’
'They know he has done wrong but they will stick by him. He remains their son'
Family source
Close friends said the girl had changed her Facebook status to ‘In a relationship’ after returning from France last year.
Forrest’s parents have been visiting him three times a week on remand in Lewes Prison, where he has mixed with hardened criminals including armed robbers.
He has been teaching literacy and numeracy to other prisoners and reading philosophy. The family source said: ‘He gets some stick but he deals with it through humour.’
Family: Forrest's sister Carrie Hanspaul (right) and his mother Julie Forrest (left) leave Lewes Crown Court as teacher Jeremy Forrest was found guilty of abducting a 15-year-old girl who he took to France
The family source added: ‘They know he has done wrong but they will stick by him. He remains their son.’
'Every aspect of our lives has been affected to some degree'
Girl's mother
Forrest’s father, 60-year-old Jim, collapsed yesterday outside the courtroom as he waited for the judge to start summing up the case. He was taken to hospital by ambulance but later returned home and was said to be recovering.
For the past two months the schoolgirl has been living with her stepfather, who is divorced from her mother. Last night after she returned home, he said they were looking forward to spending some time together as a family.
Outside court, the girl’s mother described the last nine months as ‘like living out your worst nightmare.’ She said: ‘Every aspect of our lives has been affected to some degree.’
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