A SCHOOLGIRL told jurors how she kissed her teacher for the first time in his maths class.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the kiss occurred in May last year when she would have been 14.

Jeremy Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, denies a count of child abduction.

Speaking during a video interview which took place in October last year, the girl told how she went to Forrest's classroom at Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne on four consecutive days, finally kissing him on the fourth day.

She said: "We did kiss and that became a regular thing. We met up several times. That was after school."

As the relationship turned sexual two months later after she had turned 15, the girl said Forrest knew what the consequences would be for him - and that he could face prison.

She said in the interview: "He told me that he didn't want to take advantage of me, and I just didn't have a problem with it any way.

"It was what I wanted to do because of how much I liked him.

"I didn't give it a second thought. Obviously I was worried about it and I spoke to my friends about it."

She added: "He knew he would go to prison, lose his job and not work with children again, so he was aware and that made me feel better.

"There was no naivety about it and it was what I wanted, and I probably encouraged it. We would bring it up and I would say 'Yeah, I really want to'."

She also told police during the interview that she knew Forrest was married to Emily.

But she said he had told her their marriage was "over".

She said: "He said his marriage was over and he said he wanted me to meet his parents.

"He had showed them a picture of me.

"He said: 'There is nothing between me and my wife.'

"He would never cheat on anyone."

The girl spoke of the time she first stayed over at Forrest's house after telling her mother she was having a sleepover with a friend - but said nothing sexual happened.

"He picked me up after school - I think it was a Friday - and everything we planned was what happened.

"We didn't do anything sexual. We slept in the same bed but that's all it was.

"I told my friends that nothing was going to happen and I think Jeremy wanted to stick to that as well."

She added: "We watched TV and he made me dinner."

She said she could not remember the first time they had sex but that they did it in "a few hotels" when she would tell her mother she was staying with a friend.

"The lead-up was that, just like we had said, we wanted to take things further and it was a natural thing. We had doubts. He felt so guilty about it. We shouldn't have even been texting, let alone having a sexual relationship."

Lewes Crown Court has heard police were alerted to their relationship following a tip-off.

When a police officer and a social worker visited the girl's home to speak to her about what was going on, they decided to flee the next day, September 20 last year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The trial continues.