This is the dramatic moment a star of reality TV show Storage Hunters was arrested for harassment – as he claimed a village where he has bought two plots of land to build houses had ‘gone to war’ against him.
Businessman Daniel Hill, who denies ‘all allegations against him’ said he was ‘detained for 14 hours’ after being arrested by Cambridgeshire Police on Monday.
He is banned from the land
Mr Hill, who has been released without charge on bail, is now banned from visiting his newly acquired plots of land on the Badcock Road housing estate in the pretty village of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire for the next six weeks while police investigations are carried out.
The TV star acquired the unused plots of land – a designated tree planting area and a piece incorporated into a garden – for £18,000 last month at an auction of assets of the original estate developer who had gone into liquidation.
His boast…
Hill boasted he had ‘done the deal of the century’ and claims the local residents should have ‘stuck their hand in their pocket’ if they wanted the land.
But residents say he has been ‘terrorising‘ them with his heavy handed behaviour.
He claims the locals are trying to drive him away and has accused them of ‘harassing’ him and ‘causing criminal damage’ to his property.
Mr Hill, who appeared in all five UK series of Storage Hunters from 2014 to 2016 as a ‘main buyer,’ said Wednesday: ‘I absolutely deny all allegations made against me. The villagers might have won the battle but they’re not going to win the war.
‘They may have stopped me visiting my plots of land for six weeks but I’ve not done anything wrong and I’ll be back.
‘I feel as though the village has gone to war against me and now under my bail conditions I’m banned from visiting the whole village of Haslingfield. I just want to be able to get on and do my job.’
