Teacher Jeremy Forrest who fled to France with 15-year-old pupil is pictured with new girlfriend after reinventing himself as a rocker
The 33-year-old has been dating Cassie McGeough, 29, for three months
PERVERT ex-teacher Jeremy Forrest, jailed for bedding a 15-year-old pupil, has a new girlfriend.
The 33-year-old has been dating Cassie McGeough, 29, for three months.
He has reinvented himself as a tattooed wannabe rocker after serving two years nine months of a 5½-year jail term for fleeing to France with the schoolgirl in 2012.
He is subject to a sexual offences prevention order for life after being found guilty of child sex and abduction.
Forrest, who is believed to have met Cassie in a pub, has told her about his past.
But her worried pals fear he has “sugar-coated” it.
One said: “I’m worried she’s getting herself too involved too soon.
“I think she just wants a family of her own and is rushing into something that she could regret.
“She said he makes her laugh.
“She didn’t know who he was when they met, and she seems to believe anything he tells her.
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“He told her he only ran away with the girl because she was going to go anyway and he wanted to make sure she was safe.
“I think he told her quite soon after they met about his past but seems to have sugar-coated it.”
Musician Forrest’s Mini is often parked outside Cassie’s home.
He spends hours in a pub near his East Coast home.
He recently played a gig there.
Cassie is a Star Wars and Spurs fan from Ireland.
The pervert fled to France with the student to evade arrest
Peter Saunders, of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said: “The abuser is trying to make excuses to a new girlfriend.
“He took advantage of a child and now denies he did anything wrong.”
Forrest and his victim declined to comment.
