Cannot be Named for Legal Reasons

I was half listening to the news while cooking supper and heard that Jeremy Forest, the thirty year old married teacher who fled to France with a fifteen year old pupil is on trial today.

If you read the story on the BBC News web site using the hyperlink I give above you'll notice that the girl's name isn't given. On the radio the reporter stated, correctly I'm sure, that "she cannot be named for legal reasons" and if he'd done so he'd have been in contempt of court.

And so would I be if I named her here or on Twitter.

But here's the thing. If you search the BBC News web site for "Jeremy Forest" you get lots of hits, including the stories they ran when the couple was on the run where the girl is named.

So my question is: would I be in contempt by linking to it here¹ or in a tweet? Because if I am the BBC is in a lot more trouble surely?

It doesn't end there either. Unsurprisingly if you search for her name using Google then you get a host of hits including The Telegraph who name her and include a photo and there was a story in The Independent as recently as 19th May, so less than a month ago.

I guess there's nothing new here: in the days before the Web I could have gone to a newspaper archive and read about the story and I don't think any judge ever tried to stop that happening. But what's changed is the amazing ease with which I can go back and look this up.

1. I won't as I'm being paranoid, but if you can really be bothered you know how to drive a search.