Christopher Hallam
- dereckhoward99
- May 16
- 3 min read
Location: Buxton, Derbyshire
Affiliations: Sheffield Hunt Sabs
Christopher Hallam is an obsessive member of the Sheffield Hunt Sabs who was once arrested for stalking and harassing the Conservative MP for High Peak, Robert Largan.
On 19 September 2023, Hallam and his mother Christine were arrested by Derbyshire police and banned from going within 50m of Largan and his staff. The MP said the pair had caused “harassment, alarm and distress to myself and my staff on a number of occasions.”
Largan accused the pair, both former teachers, of regularly disrupting constituency surgeries with “aggressive behaviour”, including “screaming and shouting” at him and following him to his car.
Despite repeated warnings by the police, Hallam and his mother remained undeterred, turning up at a branch of Morrisons to see Largan speak later in September. They were reportedly removed by police and security guards.
The case was unfortunately discontinued in July 2024, but Hallam remained unrepentant throughout. In June he boasted on X of attending a hustings event, causing Largan to walk out of the room and denying his constituents vital access to their MP. Hallam has also admitted to making secret recording of the MP using a GoPro bodycam.
Hallam’s behaviour evokes memories of the attacks on Jo Cox and Sir David Amess, both of whom were murdered at their constituency surgeries by obsessive members of the public in 2016 and 2022 respectively.
As a former candidate for the Green Party in High Peak borough council elections, Hallam should be well aware of the growing concern elected officials have for their own personal safety and that of their families. Yet he has, by his own admission, routinely pestered a hardworking public servant just trying to serve his constituents.
Countryside Kill-Joy
Hallam is a committed member of the Sheffield Hunt Sabs, regularly posting photos from trail hunts he has disrupted to his personal social media accounts.
Like many sabs, Hallam is less interested in preventing hunts from breaking the law and more concerned with waging an ideological crusade against all countryside sports.
In August 2024, he admitted to sabbing a grouse shoot at the Stean Estate in the Nidderdale area of North Yorkshire. He also appears to have been present at the infamous attack on the Wemmergill Estate, when roughly 70 sabs were reportedly paid £200 each to disrupt a grouse shoot on the County Durham Estate.
One member of the Sheffield Hunt Sabs was reportedly arrested for disrupting the legal shoot. Another known attendee was the keyboard warrior David Lloyd – AKA Earthworm Jim – who has encouraged fellow sabs to not “be a snitch” and to refuse to comply with police investigations into sab criminality.
Evidently, Hallam keeps poor company on his campaign to rid the countryside of legal pastimes that have been a cornerstone of rural life for generations. It’s never really about protecting foxes; it’s about ruining other people’s fun.
Hallam also appears to be a committed anti-monarchist. In November 2024 he shared a poorly edited meme mocking the Prince of Wales for, among other things, the fact that his mother, Princess Diana, died in a car accident.
Earlier that year the Green party coordinator shared a post calling for the Royal Family’s sovereign grant to be cut.
As with so many Sabs, it seems Hallam can’t help but be opposed to something that most of the country rightly enjoys and is proud of.
