Jeremy Forrest intends to marry the besotted schoolgirl he abducted when she was his 15-year-old pupil, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
In an exclusive interview, Forrest’s sister Carrie Hanspaul, 33, says the maths tutor told his parents during a prison visit: ‘ I love her and we want to get married.’
The dramatic twist in the nine-month long saga comes as The Mail on Sunday reveals for the first time the contents of an emotional letter the pupil wrote to Forrest’s parents, in which she declares her undying love for him.
In the five-page note on lilac Laura Ashley notepaper, signed with two kisses, she describes Forrest as ‘wonderful’.
The girl, who recently turned 16, sent it as her former teacher at Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne awaited trial for her abduction and five counts of having sex with a child. He was jailed for five and a half years.
The girl apologised ‘for any upset I have caused’ and said she felt safer while on the run in France with Forrest last September than at home or school.
She told his retired parents: ‘I can’t emphasise enough how everything I feel towards Jeremy is – more than anything – serious . . . he is wonderful.
‘Obviously I now and will continue in the future to stand by him. I do believe that some things are worth fighting for.
‘For now, though I’m going to concentrate on working hard to get the future both me and Jeremy want and I’m preparing for college.’
She added that she had been accepted on an A-level maths course, joking: ‘Maybe he would find it comical as maths was my worst subject at school.’