Leesean Francis, Robert Downey and Mohamud Salah have all been jailed for their part in distributing and supplying crack cocaine and heroin...
The trio sold the class A drugs across the Medway towns and have now been jailed
The trio sold the class A drugs across the Medway towns and have now been jailed
Officers are appealing for information to help find a woman reported missing from Whitstable
Officers are appealing for information to help find a woman reported missing from Whitstable
A former policeman’s long service medal has been returned to his home patch after it was found being sold online
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Video footage shows a cloud of smoke rising from the airport. News of the blaze broke on Monday evening local time. Little is known about the fire’s severity or origin, but videos posted to social media show a hazy cloud of smoke rising from the...
David Beater abused his position of trust by subjecting both victims to a sustained campaign of abuse. His offending was first reported to Kent Police in 2017 and a thorough investigation led to the 80-year-old admitting five...
Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate the missing 35-year-old. Jennifer, who is from Maidstone in Kent, was last seen this afternoon (22 August) at around 12.30pm leaving the Queen Alexandra Hospital area towards Southampton...
In response, our officers from the #Maidstone Community Policing Team and our Road Safety Unit completed speed checks in Mill Bank, during the morning of Wednesday 18 August 2021. Eleven vehicles were stopped by officers and five drivers were...
David Brunger is wanted for absconding from a facility in north Kent. He is believed to have connections to the #Sittingbourne and #Medway areas. Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is urged to contact us on 999, quoting ‘Most...
Police are asking for your help to find Atlanta Butler who is missing from her home in north Essex. The 15-year-old was last seen on Wednesday. She has links to #Kelvedon, #Ipswich, #Chelmsford, #Maldon and #Stratford. If you see her, or know where...
On Thursday 19 August 2021, coordinated search warrants were carried out by officers at properties in Cambridge, Croydon, Dagenham and Reading. During the searches a number of items were seized including more than 70 phones, three cars, and...
Any day now (if you haven’t already done so) you will receive your council tax bill for 2021/22 and if you look at the monthly instalments due it’s more than likely that your ‘generous’ council has spread the payments over 10 months...
If your passport was issued prior to the UK leaving the EU with additional months on, those extra months are no longer valid. 𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄: Passport issue date 21st Jun 2012 Passport expiry date 21st Dec 2022 Your passport expiry date is now the 21st Jun...
An initiative of Maidstone Borough Council (MBC), the food hall is scheduled to open in October with all eight units filled with exciting local tenants ready to satisfy food lovers’ tastebuds featuring modern street-style food with a choice that...
Free prescriptions help relieve some pressure on low-income Britons across the UK, with millions of people claiming them for vital medication. New state pension plans could see people lose the benefit, but who is at risk? Prescription payments...
The borders between the forces, which include #Bedfordshire, #Cambridgeshire, #Hertfordshire, #Norfolk, #Suffolk, #Essex and #Kent, have been removed when using certain tactics, making apprehending and prosecuting offenders easier. The agreement...
Kent Police attended the Racecourse Park area on the morning of Saturday 21 August 2021 and the body of a man was later located. Formal identification has not yet taken place, however, the family of an 84-year-old man who was...
The 7-week-old colt, named Phoenix, arrived at the charity’s Horse Hospital in Norfolk this week having spent over a fortnight receiving emergency care at Lingfield Equine Vets, who are nearby to where he was discovered. Phoenix was found near...
Nine people have been sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court this week, with members from Charlton, Orpington and Catford, all charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs. The ‘TJ’ and ‘Alpo’ county lines networks supplied...
The measures, which form part of Defra’s Action Plan on Animal Welfare and have been set out for consultation today, will raise the minimum age for importing a puppy from 15 weeks to six months; ban the import of dogs with cropped ears and docked...
New plans to crack down on puppy smuggling and ban the import of dogs with cropped ears or docked tails have been set out by the UK Government today. The new powers, which also include raising the minimum age for importing a puppy from 15 weeks to...
CCTV images have been released following an attempted break-in at a block of flats being renovated in Rochester. At around 2.40am on Monday 2 August 2021, a group of men and women were seen walking around the grounds of Yeoman House in Princes...
Firefighters stabilised the vehicle and used battery-powered cutting equipment to create space allowing paramedics to assess the casualty’s condition, before transferring to a waiting ambulance
Amelia Jarvis was last seen in the Crabble Close area of Dover at 1.40pm on Friday 20 August 2021. She is described as slim with long brown hair which has two blonde strands at the front. She has blue eyes and is around five feet five inches tall...
Working with the Kent Police Volunteer Cadets, the Ashford Community Safety Unit (CSU) have been holding a number of bike marking events across the district throughout the summer. The first day was held on 28 July where the officers visited...
Kent Police was called to a report that a man had assaulted three men in Sandgate Road, near the junction with Cheriton Place, at 12.40am on Saturday 21 August 2021. Officers attended along with South East Coast Ambulance Service and three men were...
Witnesses are being urged to come forward following a fatal collision near Sevenoaks. A white Ford Transit van was reportedly travelling north along the A224 London Road at Riverhead on Friday 20 August 2021 when it collided with a pedestrian...
Consultation closes on 30 September 2021. The KCC say that the booking system has provided some additional benefits including: less queuing less traffic at and around the Centres because customers are bringing their waste in bulk and visiting less...
Hampshire’s Jenny Stott will take on the gruelling challenge along with her husband Andy on 16 October to raise cash for the charity which supports police officers who have suffered from physical or psychological harm. Jenny said: “In 2019 I was...
The former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has involuntarily starred in a viral TikTok video after a gaggle of giggling girls approached him on the Tube and stole his baseball cap, singing “We love you Matt, we do”. Other videos were...
Snacks and toiletries are being purchased to help victims and witnesses of crime who have to wait at the station while assisting the police. More than £100 made from selling refreshments to officers during their shifts has been used to cover the...
A lorry driver has been charged following the seizure of cocaine and heroin worth £5.7 million. Irish national 64-year-old Robert Wilkin, now living near Tilbury in Essex, was questioned by officers from the National Crime Agency after his lorry was...
A 36-year-old man from Dartford, Kent, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene and his two-year-old son who was a passenger also sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to King’s College Hospital in London, where he remains in a serious...
Michael Fewtrell was last seen in the Beechings Way area at around 7pm on 31 July 2021 and reported missing to Kent Police a week later. It has been reported that he may have travelled to Portsmouth in a blue Ford Focus and could still in the...
At around 11pm on Tuesday 10 August 2021, it was reported that a burglary took place at a property in Flora Way, Hoo. A man described as having dark hair, wearing denim trousers and a dark denim jacket was said to have taken items including...
On Tuesday 17 August 2021, Steve Kelly, the force’s Prevent and Protect Fraud Officer, was joined by members of his team and representatives from the bank to offer advice to customers and hand out leaflets, reminding people of the ways in which...
Witnesses to an assault in Ramsgate who have yet to speak to detectives are being urged to contact Kent Police. Patrols were called at 6.46pm on Saturday 7 August 2021 to a report of an assault in Newington Road where a 15-year-old boy was taken to...
Sudesh Amman, 20, from Queensbury, north London, was shot dead by undercover surveillance officers after he went on a knife rampage in Streatham, South London in February last year. The inquest jury at the Royal Courts of Justice found that the...
PCSO Luke Jones, who was off-duty at the time, became suspicious after he spied a man crouching behind the foliage in Vicarage Lane during the evening of Wednesday 18 August 2021. Recognising him as wanted for arrest for an offence, the PCSO...
Soufyan Yahyaoui has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after subjecting the victim to a violent ordeal, which left her suffering injuries including a bleed to the brain. Yahyaoui, aged 41, attended the woman’s home during the...
Channing Hart was detained in connection with a disturbance in the town centre during the early hours of 25 August 2019, which led to the death of Andre Bent. Andre, 21, was fatally stabbed when fighting broke out in the street, after...
Officers used an electric saw to dismantle the front door of a property in Rufford Walk, Bulwell, before using a battering ram to smash it off its hinges and gain entry. They found two people inside the living room with deal bags and scales...
Hollie Guard is an app that can track a person’s location as they make their way home, exerciseing, or simply going about their day-to-day tasks. If at any point they feel unsafe, a shake of the phone will send an alert to a group of pre-set...
A man and a woman have been arrested after the drugs were recovered as part of an investigation by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. Officers searched an address in Marlowe Close, Maldon, Essex during the afternoon of Wednesday 18...
During a routine patrol of the coastline, the Search and Marine Unit became aware that an 18ft vessel had got into trouble near Herne Bay, between the harbour and the pier, at around 1pm on Saturday 14 August 2021. Three men, who had embarked on a...
An extended jail sentence has been imposed on a man from Ashford who set up online chat rooms to distribute indecent images of children. Christopher Ball, 50, was arrested at his home in Kilndown Close in January 2020 after police received...
The group was sentenced following a lengthy investigation by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. It resulted in nine men and one woman being charged with offences that spanned Kent, Essex and Lincolnshire. The ring leaders, Kazeem...
Kent Police was called after a window at the business in the town’s High Street was damaged at around 4am on Monday 16 August 2021 and medication was stolen. Following an investigation by Ashford’s Community Safety Unit and Local...
Off-road motorbikes reportedly rode around woodland near Sturry Road on five dates between June and August 2021, causing damage to the badger sett. Officers from Kent Police’s Rural Task Force are investigating possible offences under the...
The four individuals, who are described as being males in their mid to late teens, are said to have verbally abused the woman in Bourne Place, off St Michael’s Road, between 8.40pm and 9pm on Monday 16 August 2021. The suspects are all described as...
It was reported that at around 6pm on Saturday 14 August 2021 a silver Ford Fiesta was travelling along Trinity Road, Ashford when it was involved in a collision with a silver Vauxhall Vectra travelling in the same direction. It was reported that...
A man has sadly died following a four-vehicle collision which occurred on the A267 at Frant about 11.11am on Wednesday 18 August. The incident involved a blue Ford Fiesta, a white Renault Master, a silver Toyota Estima and a silver or grey Honda car...