Teacher and pupil ‘were no Romeo and Juliet’

A married teacher fled to France with a 15-year-old pupil who had a crush on him, the day after police questioned her about their sexual relationship, a court has heard.

Fearing that they were about to be exposed, Jeremy Forrest, 30, booked them on a cross-Channel ferry to Calais before spending seven days on the run, it is alleged.

Jurors heard that their relationship amounted to Forrest committing a “gross and long-term breach of trust”.