The wife he betrayed: Months after their fairytale wedding, this husband was hand in hand with Megan, his besotted pupil of 14

• Emily Forrest and her husband Jeremy celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a two week romantic break in Thailand and Malaysia
• Three months earlier Jeremy had been spotted holding hands with one of his pupils, Megan Stammers, on the way back from a school trip
• Megan was reported missing last Friday when she failed to turn up to school
• After eight days away from home, Megan and Forrest were finally apprehended by gendarmes in the French city of Bordeaux

Perfect day: Emily Forrest often posted online dispatches about life with the 'love of her life' Jeremy

To celebrate their first wedding anniversary in April, Jeremy Forrest and his photographer wife Emily spent two idyllic weeks in Thailand and Malaysia.
They flew by propeller plane to the beautiful island of Koh Samui, where they went kayaking, before taking a boat to the neighbouring island of Koh Tao, where they drank pink cocktails overlooking the sea.
Arriving at the five-star Traders Hotel in Kuala Lumpur for their final three days away, Emily, 30, was presented with a bouquet of red roses and a cake decorated with the words ‘Happy Anniversary’.
Emily’s response to this was a thrilled ‘Lovely!’ We know this because Emily, in happier days, loved to share her life – as so many young people do today – on public internet sites.
What she didn’t know then, however, was that three months before her romantic anniversary, her 30-year-old husband had been seen holding hands with one of his pupils, Megan Stammers, on a flight back from Los Angeles following a school trip. Megan was just 14 at time.
Nor was Emily aware, of the scores of tweets and messages being posted online by the husband she adored and Megan.
Indeed, Emily Forrest was already planning their next romantic holiday together – Christmas and New Year in Dubai.
‘Next adventure booked,’ she wrote last month. ‘Not sure if I will love or hate it, but it’s somewhere I have always been intrigued to visit.’
Seemingly unbeknown to her, Forrest had been tweeting about his secret torment over the schoolgirl since March. He wrote he was ‘sacrificing his sanity’ to be with the one he loved and said he felt ‘helpless’.
On his blog, Forrest, an amateur musician who performs under the name Jeremy Ayre, wrote ‘You hit me like heroin…’ and mentioned the ‘moral dilemma’ he was in.
In June, two months before his wife posted rave reviews of their anniversary holiday on the Trip Advisor website, Forrest was tweeting ‘Some things are worth fighting for...’
In the light of this week’s drama, he clearly wasn’t talking about his marriage.

In the dark: Unbeknown to Emily, her teacher husband Jeremy had been spotted holding hands with a pupil on a school trip just three months before their first wedding anniversary

Megan Stammers, 15, and Jeremy Forrest, 30, disappeared last week and boarded a ferry to Calais in France

Beautiful bride: Emily Forrest, pictured with Jeremy on their wedding day, has maintained a dignified silence since her husband disappeared with the school pupil

Similarly, many of Megan’s tweets concern the trials and tribulations of a complicated romance. In March, she wrote ‘Too many things keep me awake!!! Are you not sleeping either?!’
And in May she tweeted: ‘Talking to Mum about how good my best friend’s love life is and she goes “what’s yours like then?” hahaha... you literally have no idea.’ The same month she wrote: ‘Right love, wrong time’.

Megan, who describes herself on Twitter as a ‘self-loathing, music-loving, art and fashion-obsessed nostalgic loner’ was reported missing last Friday after failing to turn up at her school in Eastbourne. 
Yesterday she and Forrest were finally apprehended by gendarmes in the French city of Bordeaux.
Where this leaves Forrest’s poor wife is anyone’s guess. She had maintained a dignified silence throughout the week despite the humiliating end to her marriage being reported across Europe.
Only last month she wrote on Trip Advisor about their stay at the Jamakhiri resort in Thailand: ‘My husband and I reminisce about this place all the time.’

In love: Emily and Jeremy Forrest seemed like a happily married and devoted couple to the outside world

Romantic getaway: The pair celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a romantic two week break to Thailand and Malaysia

For those following her online posts, the pair must have seemed the most blessed, devoted, attractive and well-suited of couples.
Both grew up in affluent areas of Kent and were drawn together by their love of music.
Emily, the daughter of David and Deborah Faulder, who are partners in an optician’s practice, describes herself as an arty, creative, ‘geeky’ type, who spent most of her childhood in Chislehurst drawing and writing.

A CCTV image shows maths teacher Jeremy Forrest with teenager Megan Stammers aboard a ferry from Dover to Calais

Forrest, whose family own a chain of bakeries, grew up in Petts Wood near Orpington. From the age of 14 he performed in a band and wrote his own songs, taking inspiration from bands such as Nirvana and REM.
It is not known exactly how they met, but it’s clear that he and Emily were friends first, and she helped design his CD covers. She lovingly watched him perform in various local pubs.
But with rock stardom proving elusive, Forrest trained to become a teacher and by all accounts he was a good one, widely respected by his pupils and peers.
Indeed, many of his former students have been stunned by his romance with Megan, describing Forrest as a popular, caring and ‘cool’ teacher.
Nicola Foxen, 19, who attended Bishop Justus School in Bromley, Kent, where Forrest taught until 2009, said: ‘He was everyone’s favourite teacher. He was good because he was younger and pretty cool because he was in a band, which made us respect him. He was the last person I would have expected to do something like this.’
Forrest and Emily moved to East Sussex in 2009, settling in the village of Ringmer. He took a post at Bishop Bell School while Emily, who had been working as a learning and development adviser in south east London, developed her love of photography, hoping to become a travel photographer.
Last September, she wrote: ‘I love photography more than I have ever loved anything ever (apart from my pet rabbit and my husband).’
As she neared her 30th birthday, Emily drew up a ‘bucket list’ – again posted online – of the things she wanted to do before she died. These included: ‘Plan and organise my own fairytale wedding’, ‘Marry the love of my life’ and ‘Be a size six when I get married.’
She ticked all these off when she married Forrest in Brighton on April 8 last year, which she meticulously planned with a ‘mint green, peaches and cream’ vintage theme.  She made all the invitations and place settings by hand, writing of the experience, ‘spent many hours dragging Jeremy around Hobbycraft looking at endless bits of paper and sparkly things’.

Sighting: Sussex Police issued this picture of the Ford Fiesta driven by Jeremy Forrest to Dover, with Megan Stammers also inside

After vanishing last Thursday, police found the schoolgirl and maths teacher in Bordeaux, France

She bought sticks of rock for the guests and at one point considered having an owl or her pet rabbit Herman as the ring bearer. She cheerfully confessed to having the odd ‘Bridezilla’ moment.
Describing it as ‘the best day of my life’, Emily, wearing a dress by designer Justin Alexander, exchanged vows with her husband in an outdoor ceremony at Lewes Castle, East Sussex.

Bustling: The street Sainte-Catherine where the British schoolgirl, Megan Stammers, 15, and her maths teacher, Jeremy Forrest, 30, were found by the police in Bordeaux

Wanting a ‘wedding that would stand out from the crowd’, the newly-weds were driven by camper van to their reception for 70 guests at the Hotel Du Vin in Brighton.
Forrest’s family made the wedding cake, to which was added a Sylvanian Family cake topper – a nod to Emily’s childhood love of the animal toys.
‘Even though Jeremy told me I was sad at first, when he got his Sylvanian Club certificate through the post he got really excited!’ she wrote.
Beautiful wedding photographs taken by David McNeill, featuring the ‘very cool’ couple on Brighton Pier as the sun set, later featured in Rock and Roll Bride – a website devoted to quirky, alternative weddings.
The Forrests had planned to honeymoon in Japan, but cancelled because of the tsunami and spent two weeks on the Caribbean island of St Lucia instead. They enjoyed cocktails at ‘swim-up bars’ and stayed in a villa which looked like ‘something out of Disney’.
Struck by post-wedding blues, Emily set up a blog called ‘Bride on a Shoestring’, writing ‘I was lying in bed, thinking about my awesome wedding and feeling a bit sad about never being able to plan a wedding again, when a lightbulb moment hit me! Cool wedding ideas which don’t cost the earth.’
Settling into married life, last Christmas her present to her husband was a five-night trip to Valencia in Spain, staying in the Hotel Primus. ‘All in all a fantastic holiday!’ she wrote.
Little over a month later, Forrest was seen holding hands with Megan on that flight back from the US.
The teenager’s tweets around this time reveal a girl besotted, while Forrest’s tweets could have been written by an angst-ridden teenager rather than a married man. In the summer, Forrest posted pictures on his Twitter account of two new tattoos on his arm; one of them a young brunette in a hat and floral dress. He didn’t say who it was modelled on.

'Overjoyed': Megan's stepfather Martin Stammers told a press conference the family couldn't wait to be reunited with Megan after she was found in France

In custody: Jeremy Forrest, believed to be pictured in the front left hand seat of the car, leaving Bordeaux Police station today

The other was a floral tattoo beneath which the words from a Nirvana song stood out: ‘One baby to another says I’m lucky to have met you.’ Who was he referring to?
When Megan and Forrest went to France, all their tweets and blogs fell eerily silent as did Emily’s online dispatches about life with the ‘love of my life’.
On his music blog, Forrest left a song for fans, called Arrows and Hearts, in which he sings agonised lyrics of love, loss and torment. It begins: ‘I was afraid someone would catch us... I took on someone else’s skin’. It finishes: ‘I was afraid some day I’d lose you. My heart still sings your name.’
But who was the song for? Sadly, it seems, not his wife.