This is Bristol -- A maths teacher who was jailed after eloping to France with one of his students was held at the new prison for sex offenders in Pucklechurch. Jeremy Forrest, 31, hit international headlines when he fled with the then 15-year-old girl in September 2012. While he was at Ashfield, which for years was home to young offenders, according to The Sun newspaper the girl wrote positive letters to Forrest, but the prison did not allow him to read them. Forrest, who taught at Bishop Bell School in East Sussex, first kissed the girl when she was 14. The pair had sex after she turned 15. When police were alerted they fled to France by ferry, travelling under false names. While on the continent they dyed their hair, stayed in budget hotels and touted bogus CVs in a bid to land bar work. They spent seven days on the run before being caught in an undercover police sting in Bordeaux. Last year, Forrest was jailed for five-and-a-half years at Lewes Crown Court for child abduction and sexual activity with a child. He is due to be released next year. Afterwards the girl said: "I love Jeremy so much. I want to spend the rest of my life with him and maybe once he's out, we can marry and have children." But social workers have banned her from having contact with him until she turns 18 and, several months ago, she was reported to have had a boyfriend nearer her age. According to the Daily Express, Forrest has now been moved to Dartmoor prison in Devon and has written to the newspaper claiming that a ban on contacting the girl breaches his human rights. Forrest retrained as a cook and started a self-funded Open University degree while at Ashfield. The Prison Service said it did not comment on individual inmates.
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This is Bristol -- A maths teacher who was jailed after eloping to France with one of his students was held at the new prison for sex offenders in Pucklechurch. Jeremy Forrest, 31, hit international headlines when he fled with the then 15-year-old girl in September 2012. While he was at Ashfield, which for years was home to young offenders, according to The Sun newspaper the girl wrote positive letters to Forrest, but the prison did not allow him to read them. Forrest, who taught at Bishop Bell School in East Sussex, first kissed the girl when she was 14. The pair had sex after she turned 15. When police were alerted they fled to France by ferry, travelling under false names. While on the continent they dyed their hair, stayed in budget hotels and touted bogus CVs in a bid to land bar work. They spent seven days on the run before being caught in an undercover police sting in Bordeaux. Last year, Forrest was jailed for five-and-a-half years at Lewes Crown Court for child abduction and sexual activity with a child. He is due to be released next year. Afterwards the girl said: "I love Jeremy so much. I want to spend the rest of my life with him and maybe once he's out, we can marry and have children." But social workers have banned her from having contact with him until she turns 18 and, several months ago, she was reported to have had a boyfriend nearer her age. According to the Daily Express, Forrest has now been moved to Dartmoor prison in Devon and has written to the newspaper claiming that a ban on contacting the girl breaches his human rights. Forrest retrained as a cook and started a self-funded Open University degree while at Ashfield. The Prison Service said it did not comment on individual inmates.
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