Paedophile Jeremy Forrest is planning to move to Thailand where he hopes to take back up work as a teacher, it has been claimed.

The 32-year-old was jailed in 2013 after running away to France with a 15-year-old schoolgirl, sparking an international manhunt.

After serving two years of his five-and-a-half year sentence, the paedophile from Lewes, Sussex, could be released later this summer.

Paedophile Jeremy Forrest (pictured above on holiday before his conviction) is reportedly planning to move to Thailand to become an English teacher after being released from jail

Having been banned from ever teaching in the UK again, he is reportedly planning a move to Asia where laws are more lenient, say sources.

According to The Sunday Mirror, Forrest has been plotting his getaway from his prison cell.

'Jeremy feels that there is nothing left for him in England. He has lost his job, his wife, the lot,' a source told the newspaper.

'He reckons Thailand is as good a place as any to start afresh. He thinks he can make a living giving English lessons.'

Forrest, 32, ran away with a 15-year-old schoolgirl he had taught to France (left) in 2012. He was jailed the following year on charges of child abduction and having sex with a child

Forrest sparked an international manhunt in 2012 after disappearing with one of his pupils, a 15-year-old girl.

The pair ran away to France after striking up a relationship on a school trip to Los Angeles.

Following his arrest it emerged the married teacher went on a holiday to Thailand with his wife weeks after initiating an inappropriate relationship with the girl.

Emily Forrest recalled at the time he had been behaving distantly throughout the trip and often sat on a balcony staring out for hours.

Mrs Forrest divorced her husband following his convictions for abducting a child and engaging in sexual activity with a child.

In summer last year it was claimed Forrest and the schoolgirl he ran away with, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were planning a prison-visit reunion.

Sources said the pair were eager to meet and that it may bring them both 'closure'.

The disgraced teacher holidayed in Thailand with his wife shortly after supervising a school trip where he is understood to have started his inappropriate relationship with the schoolgirl. Emily Forrest shared this image of him staring out into space from their hotel balcony

Thailand has less strict laws on teachers with criminal convictions. A criminal record check is not a requirement to secure a work visa, though many schools may ask for them out of preference.

In 2002 Gary Glitter fled south Asia after being convicted of possessing child pornography on his computer.

He was thrown out of the country on the back of suspected child abuse and settled in Vietnam.

Years later he was asked to leave there after being accused of having sex with six women aged 11-23.

He was arrested trying to board a flight to Thailand and made to stay to face trial.

South Asia has a history of 'paedophile tourism' with sex offenders from the West flocking to impoverished areas to take advantage of the more lenient legal system.

Often convicts are able to pay away their charges and avoid prison sentences because the states are in such desperate need of money.

There has been a crackdown on paedophile tourism in recent years, with specialist British and U.S. teams set up to tackle the issue.

The former teacher feels as though he has lost 'the lot' in England and wants to move, a source claimed



