Headteacher Gregory Hill arrested for breaching bail

Gregory Hill, of Valley Way in Fakenham, was arrested yesterday morning after breaking the bail conditions imposed by the courts relating to social media activity. 

Hill pictured outside an earlier hearing (Image: Newsquest)

On Thursday, Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ Court found the 48-year-old guilty of one count of harassment between March 12, 2022 and February 22, 2023, and another count of resisting arrest on 6 March 2023.

The headteacher of Howard Junior School in King's Lynn had subjected 23-year-old trainee Chloe Regester to a campaign of harassment after she spurned his unwanted romantic advances.

Social-media mad Hill bombarded Miss Regester with messages and demanded that she accompany him to Sandringham a week after the death of Queen Elizabeth II to see the flowers and tributes left at the gates.

Hill pretended to be unconscious while resisting arrest (Image: Norfolk Constabulary) Extraordinary footage released by Norfolk Police showed Hill's 33-minute attempt to resist arrest as he lay in a hedgerow outside the school, screaming and claiming to have been assaulted, before pretending to be unconscious.

One of Save Howard Junior's tweets (Image: Twitter) Hill had breached his conditions by failing to notify police of all of the social media accounts he controlled, by creating a new social media account without notifying police and by making reference to the victim and ongoing police investigation in social media posts.

A now-deleted Twitter feed posted claims of a conspiracy. The Save Howard Junior account said Hill had been set up because his school was too successful.

Hill had been released by the court on conditional bail until his sentencing on September 2, but after being arrested yesterday he was taken to Aylsham Police Station before appearing at Norwich Magistrates' Court where he was remanded into custody until August 8.