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Episode 108 - Jeremy Forrest: Runaway Teacher

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It’s “Lolita” on the English Rivera this week as the girls follow the story of a 30 year old Maths teacher, Jeremy Forrest, and his obsession with a 15 year old student - Gemma Grant*.

Their relationship escalated from casual conversations to constant messaging, to kissing to a full blow sexual affair; and soon the whole world knew. In 2012, taking a final stab at being together, the pair ran off to France sparking an international manhunt which left both of their lives in tatters.


*Name changed



Sources:

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a9949676/schoolgirl-flees-to-france-with-teacher-2017-update/

https://youtu.be/rlqlUWB1RpM

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gemma-grant-jeremy-forrest-school-girl-teacher-relationship-france-arrest-damaged-a7769731.html

 

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0:44.8

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0:50.3

show up for your girls here, please. Exactly. Yes, please, please do that. Link is in the episode description. It's also all over

0:57.0

social media and we also had our first day in rehearsal and good news is we have a show. We do. We have a show and we're not

1:03.8

terrible. So that's good. The person in the show is terrible. The case person who we're doing it on. But that's what you

1:10.7

are supposed to hear. Exactly. That's what you want to hear. So come along. Get your tickets, blah, blah, blah. We'll just keep

1:16.4

whispering in every now and again into the episode. Get your tickets. So with that, let's kick off today. Shall we? Let's do it. We are going back to 2012

1:26.1

today. We're staying in England. We're staying in the lovely Eastbourne area where I went quite recently for

1:31.5

remember. It's a very strange place, but very naturally beautiful. Yeah, kind of strange. You are, you're not welcome there anymore.

1:40.8

I know. Please don't do that. I'd quite a nice time when the our English Riviera was lovely. But yeah, we're going back to 2012

1:47.8

when an international manhunt was launched for 30 year old maths teacher Jeremy forest from Bishop Bell

1:54.6

Sea of East school in Eastbourne when he ran off to France with his 15 year old student. We aren't going to name

2:02.2

the girl who was involved in this because she was a child when all of this happened. Her name is out

2:07.4

there obviously because there was loads of appeals for her to come home, etc. But basically in all of

2:11.9

the reports since she uses the alias Gemma grant just to be fair. That's what we're going to call her to.

2:18.4

The two had met Gemma and Jeremy in September 2011 when Jeremy became Gemma's maths teacher when she

2:25.3

started year nine. And for our international listeners at the start of year nine, Gemma would have been 13

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