Runaway teacher Forrest charged with child abduction

Runaway teacher Jeremy Forrest was tonight charged with child abduction after disappearing with 15-year-old Megan Stammers last month, Sussex Police said.

The 30-year-old married amateur musician, from Ringmer, near Lewes, East Sussex, went on the run with Megan, his pupil at Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, on September 20.