News about Christopher Williams

A police officer appeared in court today charged with assaulting a 14-year-old girl by allegedly using a pepper spray on her and putting his hands around her throat when she was arrested. PC Thomas White, 30, is also accused of striking the 'particularly vulnerable' teenager with his knee and throwing her into a chair at a hospital in Basildon, Essex. Ipswich Magistrates Court was told some of the incidents happened when the alleged victim was handcuffed after being arrested. The officer, of Wickford, Essex, denies a charge of assault causing her actual bodily harm on March 27 this year.

Hannah Gidman, 26, moved to the UK from Australia back in 2019 and took up a role at the school after recently qualifying as a teacher. She told the BBC she experienced similar behaviour from Hill while working at the school, such as him telling her he had imagined her in a bikini. The BBC has spoken to four other women, including Ms Gidman, who claimed they experienced similar behaviour from Hill when working at the school. He reportedly did not respond to the allegations. Ms Gidman was 22 when she began working at the school and said problems started when she went out to dinner with colleagues and Hill complained he had not been invited. She claimed Hill would make 'sexualising comments' towards her 'at least once a week' but did not complain over fears she would lose her job.

Gregory Hill, 49, harassed Chloe Regester, 25, for nearly a year, contacting her through Facebook and WhatsApp and even ordering her to go with him and pupils to Sandringham after the late Queen died. When he discovered the object of his attention was gay, he made withering remarks about her partner and belittled her dress sense, saying she had 'lesbian shoes'. When Hill was arrested in the car park of his school he spent 30 minutes lying on the ground and wrestling with officers, who caught the 'bizarre' scene on bodyworn cameras. Sentencing the disgraced educator, District Judge Christopher Williams said he had a 'chilling ignorance' of the power he held over staff at Howard Junior School in King's Lynn, Norfolk, which had led to his 'spectacular fall from grace'.

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.

After a parent appealed last year, the Davis School District review committee decided to ban the Bible from all schools other than those at a high school level, citing passages that refer to sex and violence. According to reports, the resistance was initiated by a parent who wrote in their complaint that they were unhappy with books being deemed "inappropriate" by conservative organisations and kicked out of schools in recent months. The parent requested that the Bible be reviewed by the board, arguing that it was time to ban 'one of the most sex-ridden books from classrooms'. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, Davis School District spokesperson Christopher Williams said that the decision to delete the bible will go into place immediately.

A tornado that ripped into America's Midwest and South wreaked a deadly path, killing at least 26 people and leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity. The ferocious twisters demolished houses and businesses, cut down trees, and spread garbage to communities across a wide swath of the country in at least eight states. At least nine people were killed in one Tennessee county, four in the small town of Wynne, Arkansas, three in Sullivan, Indiana, and four in Illinois.

A court heard the vindictive sister called police and told them that her sibling had 'large amounts' of cocaine in his vehicle. In an attempt to get him in jail, a man caught drug-driving was given the items by his sister. Colchester Magistrates Court (pictured) heard that police officers in Clacton, Essex, had intercepted David Pridmore after being told he was transporting "significant amounts" of Class A drugs by his sister.

A father of six who spent 25 years on a death row in Philadelphia was fatally shot when attending a funeral less than two years after being exonerated. Christopher Williams, 62, was killed on Friday afternoon after attending a fellow prisoner's funeral just 22 months after being released from state prison in February 2021. Williams was found guilty of six murders, including one triple murder in 1989, but he was released after nearly 30 years in jail when his final murder conviction was dismissed due to evidence of criminal misconduct.

The defendants, who ranged from 27 to 72, said they were 'preventing a tragedy' by occupying a jetty at Navigator Terminals in Grays, Essex, preventing the ship from unloading the diesel. 'I take the view that the Russian war is more than likely the Russian war could be described as terrorism,' district judge Christopher Williams, who delivered his decision at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Friday, said.' The ten defendants had denied a single charge of obstruction or disrupting a person engaged in a lawful position under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. On charges, they trespassed on land at Navigator Terminals and blocked the jetty, blocking or disrupting "a lawful activity, namely fuel delivery." Henry Blaxand KC, a defense, challenged whether the unloading of the Russian diesel was legal, and the judge said,'in my opinion, the unloading of the oil was the potential offence.' The protesters broke out in applause, and there were cheers as the judge found them not guilty. Monali Ralerasker, the Prosecutor, argued that the case did not necessitate an investigation of what's morally correct and what's morally incorrect.' However, the judge found it was "arguable" that offences under the Terrorism Act 2000, and that the defendants' "activity" was exactly what they were protesting about.

In court, ten Greenpeace activists who blocked a jetty at an oil terminal, leading a tanker carrying Russian diesel to U-turn, will claim that their conduct was lawful because they were'preventing a crime.' The defendants, who ranged from 27 to 72, have appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court. The operations manager of Navigator Terminals in Grays, Essex, Monali Ralerasker, was alerted that demonstrators had breached the jetty around 11.10 p.m. on May 15 this year, according to prosecuting. 'They had accessed from the riverside by dinghy boats,' the advocate said. The jetty is 'important' to the terminal's infrastructure, according to Sherry, because it is "used for large tankers to dock."

Morgan Trowland, 39, and Marcus Decker, 33, will face a jury trial after both announced not guilty pleas at Southend Magistrates' Court to criminal harm over the suspected stunt. After being blocked, drivers were unable to use the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links Kent and Essex. The pair began shortly before 4 a.m. on Monday and soon became so popular that police negotiators were no longer able to engage with them. Both the boys were reportedly launched with a Just Stop Oil banner and remained there for almost 36 hours. After District Judge Christopher Williams refused to bail both of them out, there were shouts from the public gallery of'shame on you.' They were released into custody before being able to plea and trial preparations at Basildon Crown Court on November 17.