Agencies/Paris
The French police yesterday launched a major search for runaway schoolgirl Megan Stammers, who has gone missing with a teacher from her school. The 15-year-old from Eastbourne is believed to have crossed the Channel with Jeremy Forrest, 30.They are thought to be travelling in a black Ford Fiesta which was seen on CCTV on a Dover to Calais ferry crossing at about 9pm on Friday.Police in France yesterday said they had issued an “all motorways” alert to try to track the pair.“This is our starting point for the search, but there have been no sightings so far,” said a co-ordinating officer in France’s national police force.“All motorways patrols have been alerted, and there will also be officers looking out for the car on minor roads.”Stammers was first reported missing at midday on Friday after failing to turn up at Bishop Bell school.Forrest, a married man, has been revealed to have bombarded Stammers with messages on Twitter, and wrote about a “moral dilemma” on a revealing blog.On a post entitled “You hit me like heroin”, he wrote four months ago: “How do we, and how should we, define what is right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable?”Tweeting under the name Jeremy Ayre he wrote “Let’s run away together” and described how he dreamed of being “able to wake up next to you”.Meanwhile the mother and stepfather of the missing teenager have made an emotional appeal for her to come home.Speaking at a press conference, the 15-year-old’s mother, Danielle Wilson, said: “Sweetheart, I don’t care what you’ve done, or why. I just want you home.”Megan’s stepfather, Martin Stammers, added: “I just want you to come home safe and well.”Chief inspector Jason Tingley, from Sussex police, said: “We believe that you left of your own accord with Jeremy but we need to hear that you are okay. Your family and friends are extremely worried, but you are not in any trouble.“My message to Forrest is that this may not have gone as you expected it to. Right now, our priority is to know that Megan is safe, and I would ask you to do the right thing and make contact with us.“We will work with you to get you both safely back into the country.”Wilson and Stammers both said Megan’s disappearance was out of character for the teenager. “She is always in at 7pm, she is not one of these kids to roam the streets, she doesn’t go out drinking or anything like that. She doesn’t like the dark so she had never been out after dark,” Wilson said. She added: “It is completely out of character. This is not her. She is not like this.”Stammers said Megan had sent him a text message last Tuesday asking to meet him. He arranged to meet her on Saturday but she did not keep the date as she and Forrest are believed to have already left for France.