Girl, 15, goes on run with teacher, 33

THE parents of a 15-year-old girl on the run with a teacher pleaded last night for her to come home.

Maths master Paul Tramontini, 33, skipped bail and disappeared with Katherine Baillie after being charged with abducting her.

As police stepped up the hunt for the teacher last night, Katherine's distraught mother Margery told of the torment her family was suffering.

Tramontini, recently divorced from a history student he wed nine years ago, has resigned from his job at Mayfield Comprehensive School in Portsmouth.

Worried staff at the school had alerted social services to secret meetings between the teacher and his pupil, then only 14.

Margery, who adopted Katherine as a month-old baby, told him: "You'll never be part of our family after what you've put us through."

And her husband Tom angrily ordered him to leave their daughter alone.

Margery said: "He pursued her. She didn't even have a proper boyfriend before she came into contact with Tramontini."

The teacher and pupil defied pleas to wait until Katherine's 16th birthday before making a decision about their future and ran away together.

They returned to her home in Portsmouth five days later and Tramontini was put on police bail accused of abducting her. But six weeks ago the couple vanished for a second time - and have not been seen since.

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