The brother of a physics teacher, 29, accused of having sex with a 16-year-old pupil in an aeroplane toilet told of her relief today as she found out she will not a face a retrial.
Eleanor Wilson, 29, had been accused of striking up a ‘clandestine relationship’ with the teenager on a school trip to Swaziland in southern Africa in 2015.
She had faced the prospect of a second trial after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the case last week following three days of deliberation.
After the CPS announced today there would be no retrial, Miss Wilson’s brother Jethro described his sister’s immediate reaction.
Speaking from the family home in Silsden, West Yorkshire, he told MailOnline: ‘I have spoken to her and she is very relieved. ‘She wants to talk to the people who matter first and then decide what she does from there.’
Bristol Crown Court had heard that Wilson fondled the pupil before luring him into a lavatory on the British Airways flight back from Johannesburg. They were also alleged to have had unprotected sex which saw her become pregnant and have an abortion behind her then-boyfriend’s back.
Wilson was also accused of kissing and cuddling the boy on three occasions, after a meal at Nando’s and trips to Tintern Abbey and Ashton Court Estate in Bristol.
Wilson, 29, had been accused of striking up a ‘clandestine relationship’ with the teenager on a school trip to Swaziland in southern Africa in 2015.
Bristol Crown Court had heard that Wilson fondled the pupil before luring him into a lavatory on the British Airways flight back from Johannesburg.
They were also alleged to have had unprotected sex which saw her become pregnant and have an abortion behind her then-boyfriend’s back.
Wilson was also accused of kissing and cuddling the boy on three occasions, after a meal at Nando’s and trips to Tintern Abbey and Ashton Court Estate in Bristol.
But jurors said last Wednesday that there was no ‘realistic prospect’ of reaching a verdict in the case after ten-and-a-half hours of deliberations over three days.
Today a man believed to be Ellie Wilson’s boyfriend answered at their terraced home and said: ‘She does not want to talk to anyone’.
The Crown Prosecution Service announced its decision this afternoon at the end of its seven-day period to decide whether there would be a retrial.
Last week, Wilson wiped away tears as the judge discharged the jury of four men and six women. Two other original jurors dropped out earlier in deliberations.
Despite the chaos in her professional and private life, Wilson has found love with Josh Hawkins, 27, with whom she has been in a happy relationship since last year.
Mr Hawkins walked into Bristol Crown Court hand-in-hand with his new girlfriend on every day of her trial this month.