"She had a nephew who died like that," said a classmate sitting next to her.

I really didn't know what I'd done to make my classmate say such a thing.

"I want to meet another famous artist," a classmate said.

A classmate said: 'We used to talk about the affair all the time at first.

All my classmates and tutors said I'd never get away with it.

"We were like the cool kids that weren't going to amount to much," one former classmate said.

Benjamin reports that his classmates openly say things which were never said a year ago.

"He's been bad since Day 1," a former classmate said.

"After that happened, we did not see him in class anymore," the classmate said.

But classmates said that as a junior she played on the girl's softball team.