The wife of a teacher accused of abducting a schoolgirl has told a court how she asked him to stop communicating with the pupil on Twitter after she found a message from the teenager.
Lewes Crown Court has been hearing from Emily Forrest, who said her marriage to 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest was in trouble by the end of 2011.
He is said to have begun a sexual relationship with the pupil and allegedly took the then 15-year-old to France in September of the following year.
Mrs Forrest, who was in tears at one stage as she gave evidence and asked the court for a break, told how her husband had become "really distant" in their marriage and that they would sleep in different beds.
The 32-year-old, who married the defendant in 2009, said she was concerned he would get into trouble with his boss at Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, after finding the tweet from the schoolgirl.
She asked him to stop sending messages to her because it was "not appropriate", the court heard.
She said: "Teachers shouldn't be tweeting children from their school. They shouldn't even be friends with them."
Earlier the schoolgirl's mother told the court how she had learned of rumours about the pair in the months before they went missing.
She said she was first warned by the school about claims surrounding her daughter and Forrest after a school trip to Los Angeles in February of that year.
Her daughter "broke down" when she confronted her and said they were "just nasty rumours".
The court heard that in the summer of last year, Forrest called the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The mother said he was "seriously concerned" about his career and that he wanted to "nip (the rumours) in the bud" before the new school year.
"He alluded that (my daughter) was being a bit of a pain, he said (she) kept hanging around him," she told the court.
"He was upset about it getting worse, he kept going on and on about his career."
She said she apologised over her daughter's behaviour and that she was "mortified that my daughter could put someone in that position".
"I was horrified, ashamed and I had a go at her," she said.
"She said 'It's not true', she was in tears, she broke down, she said 'It's not true, it's not true'."
A police officer turned up at the girl's home in September and told the mother there were reports of indecent images of Forrest on her daughter's phone, the court heard.
Her daughter was "angry" about the claims and handed over her phone for them to look at.
The court has heard that, fearing they were about to be exposed, Forrest booked them on a cross-Channel ferry from Dover to Calais on September 20 before spending seven days on the run in France.
The mother said she did not know the whereabouts of her daughter for the seven days before she was found and had feared she was dead.
The court also heard evidence from friends of the girl, who is now 16.
One told police that the girl had stayed at Forrest's house while his wife was away.
The teenage witness, who counted herself among the schoolgirl's best friends, told police that the schoolgirl would be picked up by Forrest in his car after school and they would go to a crematorium to talk.
She said they would spend time at hotels as well as his home.
Scots-born Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent, denies child abduction.
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