Schoolgirl’s mum pleads with her to come home

The mother of a 15-year-old girl who has run away to France with her 30-year-old teacher made a direct appeal to her last night: “Sweetheart, I don’t care what you’ve done or why, I just want you home.”

The search continued yesterday for the schoolgirl, Megan Stammers, as police appealed to the girl or her teacher, Jeremy Forrest, to make contact after eloping across the English Channel.

Sussex Police Chief Inspector Jason Tingley appealed to Mr Forrest, saying: “Do the right thing and make contact with us.’

Mr Forrest is a maths teacher at the same Church of England school that Megan attends in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

There have been no reported sightings or contact with the pair since they vanished, and Sussex Police were pursuing “critical lines of inquiry”.

The alarm was raised at noon on Friday after Megan failed to turn up for school.

Nine hours later she crossed from Dover to Calais, sparking an appeal to trace her.

Police have said they do not believe Megan is at risk but they are in contact with the French authorities in an effort to reunite her with relatives.

The girl’s father Martin Stammers tweeted: “Have to remain strong for Meg’s, can’t dwell in the misery of ‘what ifs’ — we love you sweet-heart, doing all we can #findmeganstammers.”

Officers have appealed for information about the whereabouts of a black Ford Fiesta, registration GJ08 RJO, driven by Mr Forrest.

On a blog apparently written by Mr Forrest under his music stage name Jeremy Ayre, he writes about a “moral dilemma” in a posting four months ago headed: “You hit me just like heroin...”.

Posted online on May 19, it states: “The last two weeks have been pretty intense, in both a good and a bad way!!!

“I’ll touch on the bad, although it will have to be a bit vague to be publically digestible, but have lots of positive music-related s*** to shoot...

“About a week ago I had a bit of a moral dilemma to deal with, both internally and externally. And the over-riding question it left me with was this:

“How do we, and how should we, define what is right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable???

“I came to a few different conclusions, mainly that actually we get a lot of things wrong, but at the end of the day I was satisfied that if you can look at yourself in the mirror and know that, under all the front, that you are a good person, that should have faith in your own judgement.

“That’s some philoso-phical gold for you there!!!”

Appeals for help in tracing Megan continued to be posted on Twitter and Facebook, including by her sister Brooke.

She tweeted: “Keeping hope that we’ll have good news soon. Need our meg home safe and sound #keepfaith #findmeganstammers.”