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Jeremy Forrest on trial

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PatPig · 11/06/2013 22:12

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339495/Jeremy-Forrest-ran-away-France-schoolgirl-secret-relationship-exposed.html

Slightly absurdly, his 15-year-old girlfriend, all over the newspapers at the time, is no longer allowed to be named.

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PatPig · 20/06/2013 14:37

Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22991868

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georgedawes · 20/06/2013 14:38

Hope he gets a very long sentence.

2rebecca · 20/06/2013 14:59

I don't because my taxes will be paying for it and I don't think it will add much to deter him from doing it again. he deserves a custodial sentence but keeping him in for ages helps no-one. he won't work in schools again and when on the sex offenders register will struggle to find any job.
I haven't read much about what exactly went wrong with his marriage but as they'd only been married for a year their marital problems can't have been that longstanding. He'd been staying out alot and drinking heavily from what I'd read.
I hope the young girl doesn't decide to be a romantic heroine and wait for him and finds a teenage boy to hang out with.

Catlike · 20/06/2013 15:07

As the jury arrived back in court, Forrest turned to her and said: "I love you."

The girl said to the defendant: "I'm sorry" as he was taken to the cells.

So he still won't let her go, even though he's caused all of this havoc in her life, has caused her to be the subject of nationwide notoriety and has quite possibly fucked up her GCSE year for her. What a selfish, narcissistic prick Angry

I hope he gets a decent sentence, ie more than a couple of years and that the young girl has some decent counselling and manages to detach herself from this "relationship" before she wastes too much more of her youth on it.

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PatPig · 20/06/2013 15:07

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345023/Married-teacher-Jeremy-Forrest-guilty-abducting-schoolgirl-lover-15-fled-France.html]]

I wonder how much their respective behaviour would encourage the judge to make a longer sentence.

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DuelingFanjo · 20/06/2013 15:11

Urgh, the comments in the Daily Mail are typical. People trying to say he only got done on a technicality FFS

flippinada · 20/06/2013 15:12

Yes, says it all. The purported remorse was clearly a facade.

Very glad the jury saw through his pathetic "defence", which seems to have been boo hoo the mean girls made me do it Hmm .

Will be interesting to read the judges comments on sentencing.

flippinada · 20/06/2013 15:15

I refuse to read the DM on principle, but I can imagine the kind of thing. There are people on here who think what he did wasn't that big a deal.

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PatPig · 20/06/2013 15:22

It was a bit more than a technicality, teachers are not allowed to have a relationship with anyone aged under 18.

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DuelingFanjo · 20/06/2013 15:27

people are saying that it can't be abduction because she willingly went. I think they are taking the word 'abduction' literally rather than legally.

I don't actually have much faith in judges to give an appropriate sentence to be honest.

flippinada · 20/06/2013 15:36

By way of comparison, another teacher (at the same school) was found guilty of grooming two pupils several years ago and was given a 7 year sentence.

Given the aggravating factors here I would have thought he'd get similar or maybe even longer.

I guess we'll see soon.

FeegleFion · 20/06/2013 15:39

Some people's attitudes about this "relationship" gives me shudders!

If any teacher groomed and sexually assaulted my 14 year old DD, I'd cut the bastard's bollocks off and stick them up his arse take the law into my own hands.

thesmallestpotato · 20/06/2013 15:49

Looking through those comments it's amazing how many people seem to think what he did was Ok, like they should have been allowed to have a relationship. The comments on there are quite an eye opener actually.

When I read he told her he loved her as they read the guilty verdict, it made me feel sick!

When does he get sentenced?

flippinada · 20/06/2013 16:01

Sentencing is this afternoon potato

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PatPig · 20/06/2013 16:02

I think he will get 2 years.

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Remotecontrolduck · 20/06/2013 16:05

I think about two years too PatPig, though I'm prepared to be surprised. Could be a long one to make a public example out of him.

flippinada · 20/06/2013 16:13

Sentencing now adjourned until tomorrow morning.

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PatPig · 20/06/2013 16:21

Also I take it he has not been in prison on remand since his arrest, hence no time served in lieu. Judging from the closing actions of the two, I bet he wished he had.

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Remotecontrolduck · 20/06/2013 16:34

I think he has been in prison, they couldn't trust him could they (could be wrong though)

silverboy · 20/06/2013 16:56

This seems to be a really messy case, I would have hated to have had to judged this. I know of two couples who started their relationships started whilst they were in school ie teacher /student. One couple is still happily married 15 years on , the second couple are no longer together , and the lady in question is a barrister????

Unless the judge is party to more bad behaviour, I am not really that convinced that he is a hard core peadophile. Two years would be about right I think.

FeegleFion · 20/06/2013 17:03

Did you really just say that silverboy? Shock

Despite you knowing two couples who started off this way, it is morally and legally wrong!

What is wrong with people like you?

DuelingFanjo · 20/06/2013 17:10

the charge was not paedophilia was it, it was child abduction.

Will he be put on the sex offender's register anyway?

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PatPig · 20/06/2013 17:15

I don't think he will be put on the sex offenders register, since child abduction not a sex offence.

I think child abduction commonly involves parents abducting their own children, against the wishes of the other parent, which wouldn't be sexual.

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paperlantern · 20/06/2013 17:16

I think the prosecution were trying to suggest within the bounds of what they were able to do that this wasn't a star crossed love affair but the case of a man with a specific sexual preference for young looking vulnerable (read easy to manipulate) women

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