Extraordinary moment award-winning head teacher yells 'you are breaking my arms and legs!' as he tussles with police arrested him at school in front of stunned parents and pupils for harassing female colleague

This was the extraordinary scene when an award-winning headteacher spent more than 30 minutes tussling with police officers in front of parents and pupils after he was arrested at his school for allegedly harassing a female colleague.

Gregory Hill sought a romantic relationship with trainee Chloe Regester and bombarded her with messages, leaving her ‘scared’ as she spurned his advances for a year.

He later made derogatory comments about her sexuality after learning she was gay, including remarks about her partner and her clothing. Her footwear was described as ‘lesbian shoes’.

The footage was released today as Hill was convicted of harassment and resisting arrest.

As the verdict was read out, he shouted from the dock: ‘I am innocent of both charges. I will appeal to crown court straight away.’

Two female officers approached Hill, 48, in the car park outside Howard Junior School in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on March 12 last year to arrest him after receiving a complaint.

Footage from a cameras worn by one of the two PCs shows them informing the defendant they need to discuss a ‘stalking’ allegation with him and reading him his rights, prompting him to say: ‘I haven’t stalked anyone. I need to go inside to call my union.’

When they say he can’t because he has been arrested but is entitled to make a call at the police station, an extraordinary tussle begins after he sits lies on the ground and refuses to get up.

Hill can be heard screaming: ‘Help me please… they’re breaking my arm… call the police. You’re assaulting me, I haven’t done anything.’

One of the officers points out they are the police and says: ‘You are already under arrest. Calm yourself down.’

But Hill – who tells them he used to be a special constable - continues to struggle, shouting: ‘You don’t have to humiliate my in front of my school. You’ve done my job in.’

After being handcuffed, he claims he has been ‘terribly assaulted’ and that he needs to go to hospital because they’ve ‘broken my wrist’.

Blood can be seen coming from his nose which police said was from a self-inflicted injury and he is told he can have medical care at the police station.

The officers, who remain calm throughout the confrontation, tell Hill: ‘We want to get you up. It’s wet on the grass.’

They also ask for the code to his briefcase so they can give him his inhaler after he complains he is struggling to breathe but he refuses to give it to them, saying his wallet is inside.

Support eventually arrives and Hill - who won a local ‘Inspirational Teacher of the Year’ award last summer - is detained by six officers who carry him to a police van.

Giving evidence at his trial, arresting officer PC Heidi Hollington said she and PC Laura Wild wore civilian clothes to ‘try to be discreet’ when they went to arrest the defendant just before 9am.

They went to the school because they were unsure of his home address.

PC Wild added: ‘The more we tried to communicate with him, the more uncooperative he became.’

The trial, which has been held at different magistrates courts in Norfolk over several days since last month, heard that Hill, of Fakenham, harassed Ms Regester, 25, between March 2022 and February last year.

He also demanded she accompany him to Sandringham on five consecutive days to mark the death of the late Queen. A photo shows them standing near to each other as Kate Middleton thanks pupils for their condolences and gifts.

One of the messages read out in court said: ‘This is confidential but I have fallen in love with you. It’s hard for me but I will always be fun, kind and supportive.’

When he professed his love on another occasion, Ms Regester replied: ‘I’m sorry Greg. I have never said that I have feelings for you. This has to stop.’

Prosecutor Monali Raleraskar said there were 13 separate occasions when Hill should have known his behaviour towards a junior member of staff amounted to harassment.

She said the newly-qualified teacher had started at the school in September 2021, when Hill had been head for ten years, and was ‘inexperienced and naïve’.

Giving evidence via videolink, Ms Regester, who no longer works at the school, became emotional as she read out some of the messages.

On one occasion, she claimed, she spotted him outside her father’s home in Fakenham taking photos of her car.

‘I was scared and felt it was getting really serious. I didn’t know what he was capable of or what he might do,’ she said.

She described being sent multiple requests to ‘friend’ her on her personal social media accounts, adding; ‘It was relentless. My phone did not stop pinging.’

At other times, Hill was ‘fixated’ on her being in a relationship with other members of staff.

Ms Regester said no action was taken despite confiding in a senior member of staff who was acting as her mentor and requesting a meeting with the chairman of governors.

She resorted to recording a conversation where she confronted Hill after he accused her in the school assembly of being hungover after her birthday.

The Durham University graduate, who gained a first class degree in Primary Education in 2021 and was subject leader for Art and DT at Howard Junior School, complained he had singled her out for harsh treatment and used her ongoing training as leverage over her.

‘He was in charge of my entire career. He always made it clear that my two-year teaching had to be signed off by him. He held it over me,’ she said.

The messages began when Ms Regester was in charge of a class Twitter account and Hill would praise her online.

Ms Regester said: ‘I didn’t want to come across as leading him on because I wasn’t. I tried to keep it professional and concentrate on school.’

She admitted using heart emojis and an X character symbolising a kiss but insisted this was not meant to be romantic.

Under cross-examination, she denied making up the allegations, saying: ‘I’m doing this so no one ever has to deal with the likes of this man ever again.’

Another teacher – who came forward after Hill’s arrest - claimed the defendant made inappropriate comments to her.

These included asking if she would ‘like to see the head’ when his flies were unzipped, ‘unleash the beast’ and ‘I want your legs wrapped around me’.

‘It made me feel wildly uncomfortable and sick,’ the woman told the court, adding she hadn’t reported it previously because the headteacher would decide whether or not she had been successful in her training.

Hill, who was suspended from his post after being arrested, gave evidence in which he claimed a romantic relationship had been developing with Ms Regester that ‘grew like a flower in a pot’.

Asked about a message where the subject of his interest said she had never had feelings for him and was being made to feel ‘uncomfortable and stressed’, he said: ‘She would be hot and cold. She would cool off and then seek attention. It was very confusing.’

He also claimed his two accusers tried to blackmail him, adding they ‘colluded to manipulate the situation to make money’.

Opening the case at King’s Lynn Magistrates Court, Ms Raleraskar said the case was a ‘classic abuse of power situation, which Mr Hill imposed over a newly-qualified teacher’.

Referring to the ‘hysterical behaviour’ in the arrest footage, she added: ‘The reason you panicked was because your reputation was going to be destroyed and you had been found out.’

The school, the only member of the Apollo Academies Trust, was rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted in March after an emergency inspection.

It has since become part of the Eastern Multi-academy Trust, which runs ten schools across West Norfolk and Breckland.

Hill will be sentenced at a later date.