'Head teacher said he imagined me in a bikini'

Further allegations of inappropriate behaviour person been made by pistillate unit members against a caput teacher who was convicted of intersexual harassment earlier this year.

Gregory Hill was jailed for 20 weeks successful August aft helium was recovered to person made romanticist advances implicit an 11-month play towards a 23-year-old trainee, portion moving astatine Howard Junior School successful King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Hannah Gidman, 26, worked astatine the schoolhouse successful 2019, and said that Hill besides acted inappropriately towards her, specified arsenic telling her helium had imagined her successful a bikini.

The BBC has spoken to 4 different women who claimed they experienced akin behaviour from Hill erstwhile moving astatine the school. Hill did not respond to the allegations.

Ms Gidman had precocious qualified arsenic a teacher erstwhile she moved to the UK from Australia successful 2019.

She was 22 erstwhile she began moving astatine Howard Junior School and said her archetypal enactment with Hill was affirmative but "intense".

She said problems began erstwhile she went retired for meal with colleagues and Hill, past 44, complained that helium had not been invited.

“That was the archetypal reddish flag,” she said.

She added that the caput teacher aboriginal told her helium could ideate her connected the formation successful a bikini, which she said made her consciousness "icky" and "uncomfortable".

Ms Gidman said Hill would marque "sexualising comments" towards her “at slightest erstwhile a week”. She did not kick astatine the clip arsenic she was disquieted that it could pb to her losing her job.

“I don’t deliberation anyone should person to spell done what maine and different radical I worked with went through,” she said.

Ms Gidman did not archer the constabulary and Hill did not respond to the BBC’s invitation to remark connected immoderate of the allegations.

In summation to Ms Gidman's claims, 4 different women - who person asked to stay anonymous - said they experienced inappropriate behaviour from Hill erstwhile they worked with him.

None of these women were progressive successful Hills' condemnation for harassment successful August.

They each allege Hill would often remark connected their looks.

“My looks should person thing to bash with however I'm doing my job,” 1 of the women said.

One pistillate told the BBC that Hill made them perpetually consciousness “uncomfortable”, and his behaviour made her permission her job, which she "loved".

The BBC asked the women wherefore they did not marque complaints astatine the time, and they said they were disquieted it could pb them to suffer their jobs.

Hill did not respond to the BBC’s invitation to remark connected immoderate of the allegations.

Earlier this twelvemonth Hill's proceedings heard however helium pursued a narration with the trainee teacher and messaged her that helium had "fallen successful love" with her.

He besides pressurised, controlled and isolated the trainee from different members of staff, the tribunal heard.

In summation to his situation sentence, Hill was fixed a four-year stalking extortion order, which prohibits him from contacting the trainee oregon entering her spot of work, on with different restrictions astir his usage of societal media and mobile phones.

Hill was besides found blameworthy of resisting apprehension after constabulary body-worn camera footage was shown of him lying connected the crushed and wrestling with officers.

Since December 2023, Howard Junior School has been a portion of a Eastern Multi-Academy Trust (EMAT). When Hill was caput teacher it was a azygous academy schoolhouse and helium was the CEO of the spot arsenic good arsenic the caput teacher.

As a azygous academy school, immoderate complaints astir the caput teacher would person needed to beryllium raised with the committee of trustees, who are liable for moving the school.

All of the women the BBC has spoken to said they feared that Hill would person known astir immoderate issues that were raised astir him to the board.

Scott Lyons, the Norfolk subdivision caput National Education Union, said the azygous academy exemplary did not enactment to support staff.

He said immoderate caput teachers who besides served arsenic CEO of the spot could enactment without "oversight oregon scrutiny".

“Somebody that knows the system... tin precise rapidly unopen down immoderate challenge,” helium said.

The Department for Education said schoolhouse unit should consciousness harmless and supported astatine work.

It added that immoderate concerns astir enactment could beryllium raised "through the school’s interior unit grievance process, their commercialized unions, oregon nonstop to the Department of Education”.

Ms Gidman present works successful Australia and said she was speaking retired against Hill due to the fact that the complaints strategy needed to change.

A spokesperson for EMAT said erstwhile it took implicit aft Mr Hill's apprehension it urgently reviewed safeguarding, complaints and whistleblowing procedures.

It said it was appalled by the allegations and commended the unfortunate for their courageousness successful bringing him to justice.