A schoolgirl allegedly abducted to France by her married teacher after police found out about their relationship has told how they first kissed in a classroom.
The girl was 14 at the time of the clinch with 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest, which took place after they had been tweeting and texting.
In the days leading up to the kiss, the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she attended Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, early specifically to see him.
In a police interview video played at Lewes Crown Court yesterday, the girl, now 16, said: "I do remember being in his room and it was just me and him. He said: 'I really want to kiss you' and I said: 'I really want to'.
"It got to the point where there was only so much of a friendship you could have before it developed into something else.
"It ended up being in his classroom."
As the relationship turned sexual two months later after she had turned 15, the girl said Forrest knew what the consequences would be for him and that he could face prison.
She said in the interview: "He told me he didn't want to take advantage of me and I just didn't have a problem with it any way.
"It was what I wanted to do because of how much I liked him. I didn't give it a second thought.
"He knew he would go to prison and lose his job, so he was aware. There was no naivety about it. It was what I wanted and I probably encouraged it."
The court has heard police were alerted to their relationship following a tip-off.
When a police officer and a social worker visited the girl's home to speak to her about what was going on, they decided to flee the next day, September 20.
Prosecutor Richard Barton has said that, knowing their relationship was about to be exposed, Forrest booked them on a cross-Channel ferry from Dover to Calais.
Scots-born Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent, denies child abduction.
