Runaway teacher set to return home to UK

Thursday 4 October 2012

Runaway teacher set to return home to UK

RUNAWAY teacher Jeremy Forrest will return to the UK after a French court agreed to his extradition today.

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Magistrates in Bordeaux granted the request during a short hearing this morning.

Forrest, 30, did not appear in court and was represented by his lawyer Daniel Lalanne.

The maths teacher from Ringmer, East Sussex, disappeared with a 15-year-old pupil on September 20 and was arrested in the south-western French city on Friday.

It followed the issue of a European arrest warrant after the pair failed to use their return Dover-Calais ferry tickets.

Mr Lalanne said after the hearing he did not know when Forrest would return to the UK but that it could be "at any moment".

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