This afternoon, a sizable fire has started in Gravesend (June 26). A serious incident in Jubilee Crescent has prompted nine fire engines to respond...
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Information is sought to help locate a boy fromDartford who was reported missing on Friday 18 October 2019. Jadon Iwezu was last seen in the Dartford area and officers are concerned for his wellbeing. The 16-year-old is described as being...
A boat which was intentionally set alight outside a residential property in Margate is being investigated by Kent Police. Officers were in Millmead Road on 12 September 2019 when they discovered the boat was on fire at around 3am. The occupants of...
Detectives investigating a robbery in Maidstone have now released CCTV images of a man who may have important information. At around 3am on Saturday 28 September 2019, it is reported a man in his 30s was walking along Sutton Road when...
Can you help find missing Jack Palmer? Officers have asked for the public’s help in finding 15-year-old Jack Palmer who has gone missing from his home in the Hartley area of Longfield, near Gravesend. Jack is about 5ft 2in tall and has dark hair and...
A violent assault which saw a man sustain more than 20 knife wounds has resulted in the offender being jailed for 15 years. John Brazil repeatedly used the weapon to assault the victim while he was visiting their Rushenden home in November 2018. He...
When Elizabeth teon Bridge at Dartford Clockwise. Two Lanes are closed for an incident. Police and traffic officers are on scene.
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A search is continuing involving Kent Fire and Rescue service, Kent Police and Coastguard search and rescue teams after emergency services were altered to a suspected person in the water on the River Medway. Emergency services were called just after...
Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Ben Lines in Bexley have charged a teenage boy with murder. The 16-year-old was charged with murder and causing actual bodily harm following an incident in Barnehurst Avenue on Sunday, 13...
An operation to combat crime in Swale has led to the arrest of an alleged drug dealer. Officers from the Swale Community Police Team, together with the British Transport Police, set up a knife pole at the entrance to the platform at Sheerness train...
Detectives investigating a fatal stabbing in Bexley have made a second arrest. Officers were called at 2.48pm on Sunday, 13 October to Barnehurst Avenue, Bexley following reports of males fighting in the street. Officers attended with the London...
A 20-year-old man has died after being ‘stabbed in the chest’ in south east London. Moments before the Road rage stabbing took place a black vehicle was chasing the Silver VW Golf through roads on the Barnhurst estate with the driver of...
Footage sought of cars being damaged in Canterbury Witnesses are being urged to come forward after damage was caused to several vehicles in Canterbury. Kent Police officers attended Island Road, Sturry, shortly after 6pm on Saturday 12 October 2019...
Jason Burnett 27,from Chatham who is a DJ is accused of stabbing to death Lesley Spearing in her home on Miers Court Road in Rainham. Burnett appeared before magistrates in Medway magistrates court dressed in a grey prison issue sweat top. No...
Detectives investigating the death of a woman in Rainham have charged a man. Kent Police was called to a property in the Miers Court Road area of Rainham at 8.32pm on Thursday 10 October 2019. Officers and the South East Coast Ambulance Service...
The M2 motorway has been closed due to an overturned vehicle being involved in a multi vehicle collision . A hard road closure has been put in place at Junction three and junction four whilst emergency services deal with the incident. The M2 in Kent...
The woman at the centre of murder investigation has been named locally as LeslieSpearing. Emergency services found the woman in her 50’s just after 8.30pm on Thursday evening. A man in his 20’s was arrested by Police on Rainham High Street. He...
Investigating officers have charged a Belvedere man following reports of a burglary and a car theft in Chatham. The incident took place overnight on Saturday 14 September 2019 where car keys were reported stolen from inside a property in Mayweed...
A Man arrested on suspicion of murder in Rainham. Kent Police was called to a property in the Miers Court Road area of Rainham at 8.32pm on Thursday 10 October 2019. Officers and the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended the scene where a...
Officers are appealing for information following a collision in Canterbury. At around 5.25pm on Tuesday 8 October 2019, Kent Police was called to Homersham near to the junction with Wincheap Road where a collision involving a motorcycle and a black...
Sean Anderson has been reported as a missing person as he’s not been seen or heard from in over a week now, Kent police are investigating and have advised putting a post up on social media, if anyone sees him about please can you call either myself...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to Goldups Lane, Shottenden, near Canterbury, to reports of an outbuilding alight. Three fire engines and a bulk water carrier attended. Crews used a hose reel jet, main jet and water from a hydrant to attack...
Drugs estimated to weigh around five kilograms and around £100,000 in cash have been seized after officers stopped a suspicious vehicle on the M20. An unmarked police car followed a Mercedes which was travelling at high speeds on the motorway...
A teenager has been charged with suspected drug dealing following his arrest in an alleyway in Northfleet, Gravesend. Officers on patrol at around 4pm on Monday 7 October 2019 noticed several known drug users in an alleyway between Alfred Place and...
Officers are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M2 near Medway. Kent Police was called to the coastbound carriageway of the motorway near the services between junctions 4 and 5 at 1.36pm on Tuesday 8 October 2019 where a...
A callous driver of a BMW made off and left the passenger for dead following a serious collision on the Eastbound M2 near Medway this afternoon. The coastbound carriageway is closed between junction 4 at Gillingham and junction 5 at Sittingbourne...
A knifepoint robber who stole wallets from two men has been jailed for 10 years and 9 months. Brian Williams, of Duncan Road, Gillingham, committed one offence in Gillingham in July 2019 and the other in Folkestone in April 2019. The...
An arrest has been made by detectives investigating a serious assault in Rochester. The incident took place at the Eagle Tavern, in the High Street, shortly before midnight on Saturday 28 September 2019. A man remains in a London hospital in a...
Police have arrested two people on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found in Cowgate Cemetery, Albany Place, Dover at 7am on Tuesday, 1 October. The area has been cordoned off and officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime...
Officers on patrol in Canterbury Road West were made aware of suspected criminal activity taking place nearby which led them to stop a vehicle. Following a search, suspected class A drugs were found and the two occupants of the car were arrested...
A 31-year-old man has been charged with causing death by careless driving following a collision on the M20. Kent Police was called to the Londonbound carriageway, close to junction 8, at around 1.20pm on Sunday 22 September 2019, following a...
A major Kent Road has been closed following a serious collision involving two vehicles. Kent Police and other emergency services were called on Tuesday afternoon to the commercial vehicle and a Ford KA following the collision near to Sprongs Lane on...
Witnesses and dashcam footage are being sought by officers investigating a fatal collision on the M20. Kent Police was called to the Londonbound carriageway, close to junction 8, at around 1.20pm on Sunday 22 September 2019, following a collision...
Detectives investigating the murder of Andre Bent in Maidstone have charged two more people with violent disorder. Andre, 21, from Lambeth, south London, died following a disturbance in the High Street during the early hours of Sunday 25 August 2019...
An arson probe has been launched after a boat understood to be valued in the region of £150,000 was torched by two yobs on pushbike just before Midnight on Friday. Four fire crews and a water rescue boat rushed to the Hart Street in Maidstone as the...
Detectives investigating the murder of Andre Bent in Maidstone have issued CCTV images of a male who may have important information. Andre, 21, from Lambeth, south London, died following a disturbance in the High Street in the early hours of Sunday...
Four arrests have been made by officers investigating a murder in Maidstone. The investigation was launched by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate after police were called at 3am on Sunday 25 August 2019 to a disturbance involving a number...
A Kent town centre remains in lock down by police after overnight ‘incident’ A large presences of officers remain at plastic cordons in Maidstone after a stabbing took place overnight in the town. Kent police say that they have launched...
Detectives investigating the reported robbery of an elderly man in Maidstone are appealing for information. At around 8.45am on Saturday 24 August 2019 the victim, who is in his 80s, had a quantity of money stolen from him by a man who approached...
Dash cam or privately held CCTV footage is sought following a fatal collision in Folkestone. The incident took place at the junction of Bellevue Street and Dover Road at around 10.40am on Tuesday 6 August 2019 and involved a blue Ford Fiesta and two...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a young man that had fallen 30 feet down a cliff at Minster on sea, Sheerness. Fire crews walked approximately half a mile to the location of the casualty. Kent Fire and Rescue Service’s technical...
Latest on search for boy who fell into River Stour Kent Police and partner agencies continue to search for a young boy who fell into a river in Sandwich. Officers were called to the incident in Richborough Road at 1.20pm on Saturday 17 August after...
Witnesses to a collision on the A21 at Lamberhurst are being encouraged to come forward. The incident happened between the villages of Flimwell and Kilndown, near Tunbridge Wells, at about 8.20pm on Saturday 17 August 2019. Kent Police attended to...
The A2 in Kent is closed westbound between the B262 (Northfleet) and the A2260 (Ebbsfleet Valley) due to a multi vehicle road traffic collision which occurred at 9am. Kent Police and emergency services are currently in attendance. Road users are...
The suspect of an attempted murder in Canterbury is due to appear in court. Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate launched an investigation after a woman in her 70s was found with serious injuries at a property in Bekesbourne...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of straw alight in Mote Park in Maidstone. Two fire engines and a bulk water carrier were sent to the scene and crews used hose reel jets and main jets to extinguish the fire, which had spread to...
Officers from the County Lines and Gangs Team, supported by Folkestone’s Community Policing Team, carried out a search warrant at Bradstone Road, Folkestone on 6 October 2020 after receiving information the Zac county line was being run...
