Jeremy Forrest Trial: Jury Considers Verdict

The jury in the trial of Jeremy Forrest, the teacher accused of abducting a schoolgirl, has retired to consider its verdict.

Jurors were sent out after Judge Michael Lawson spent around an hour-and-a-half summing up the arguments presented by the defence and the prosecution.

They were told they would need to decide whether Forrest went with his 15-year-old pupil to France out of necessity because he was worried about her safety.

Proceedings at Lewes Crown Court were delayed for around 45 minutes after the defendant's father Jim Forrest collapsed while waiting for his son's trial to restart.

Paramedics were called and although Mr Forrest was taken to hospital, he did not appear to be seriously injured.

Jeremy Forrest's dad is helped in to an ambulance by a paramedic

Sky's senior news correspondent Michelle Clifford, at the court, said he walked out of the building and into a waiting ambulance "more or less unaided".

"The family were obviously extremely upset and I saw Jeremy Forrest's mother and sister, both in tears," she added.

Mr Forrest's 30-year-old son denies a charge of child abduction.

Jurors were told the teacher had a sexual relationship with a pupil half his age after she developed a crush on him at Bishop Bell Church of England School in Eastbourne, Sussex.

Fearing they were about to be exposed, he booked them on a cross-Channel ferry last September before spending a week on the run in France, the court heard.

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