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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The incident, involving a grey Ford Focus and a red Ducati motorcycle, took place at 1.55pm on Wednesday 27 October 2021 on the Londonbound carriageway, 500 metres south of the junction with Rosemary Lane. The motorcyclist, a man in his 70s...
Jason Vincent Longhurst, 44, was due to be imprisoned for the sex attack on an unconscious teenage girl in 2011. Longhurst did not attend York Crown Court on 9 September and was jailed for nine years in his absence. He was arrested in East...
Operational activity over the last six months – coordinated by the National Crime Agency in collaboration with UK policing partners – also resulted in the seizure of over £220,000 in suspected criminal cash and bitcoin, and more than 50 kilos...
The four-year-old is believed to have been abducted from a tent while camping with her family at a remote campsite north of Carnarvon. Forensic investigators could be seen on Wednesday collecting soil samples from a number of campfires near the...
Officers are investigating the reported theft in Ramsgate, which is believed to have taken place on Friday 22 October 2021. The victim reported that the medal, which is an FA Challenge Vase winner’s medal, was taken from a property in...
Robert Kavanagh was jailed after he was found to have breached a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and also failed to meet requirements relating to the sex offenders register. Kavanagh had previously been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in...
The incident happened in St John’s Road on Saturday 2 October 2021, as a taxi was travelling towards Southborough with four passengers. At around 7pm, it is alleged one of the passengers who was sitting in the back of the vehicle...
Mya was our bright, beautiful daughter, blessed with a sassy sense of humour and a strong will to challenge the boundaries of what was acceptable for a young girl to do. She was a caring and compassionate girl who would stand up for and try...
Thirty-two people have been arrested after traffic was obstructed at two locations. At 8.05am on Wednesday 27 October 2021, Kent Police received a report that a group of protestors had gathered at the A206 Crossways Boulevardand some of those...
The Met Police officer used Covid powers to falsely arrest Ms Everard 33, as she walked home from a friend’s house in March. Handing down a whole-life sentence at the Old Bailey last month, Lord Justice Fulford said Couzens “used...
At around 8.05am on Wednesday 27 October 2021, Kent Police received a report that a group of protestors had gathered at the location and some of those involved had glued themselves to the road surface, or each other. Officers attended the scene...
The boys died following a disturbance in Regency Court at around 1.30am on Sunday morning (24 October). Frankie Watson, 19, of Baker Street, Orsett, has been remanded to appear at Southend Magistrates’ Court today (Wednesday 27 October)...
A court official said on Tuesday: “We have been notified that an appeal has been lodged by Mr Couzens.”
If permission is granted the case will be heard by the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.
Most of the first floor and part of the external facia of the semi-detached house were damaged by the fire. There were no reports of any injuries. The Brigade’s fire investigators believe the fire was accidental and involved a lithium...
A rose copper gold kitchen knife left at the scene of an attempted murder in Hoo has led to a man being jailed for more than 16 years. Clayton Perfect used the distinctive weapon in a vicious assault on a man before fleeing the scene. ...
Kent Police was called at 10pm on Saturday 23 October 2021, to a disturbance in an open air car park next to Mote Road and Chancery Lane. It is reported that two men and a woman were involved in an altercation, after which they all left in...
Kenneth Nash was last seen at around 6.30am on Sunday 24 October heading from the direction of Westwood Cross Shopping Centre and into a recreation ground of Highfield Road. There are growing concerns for Kenneth’s welfare and anyone who may...
At around 1.40pm on Thursday 21 October 2021 a woman reported that an unknown man grabbed her from behind while she was walking along Charlotte Street, Sittingbourne. It is alleged the suspect touched her over her clothing. The victim was able to...
Police received a number of calls to Regency Court, including from colleagues in the ambulance service, at about 1.30am. Officersarrived and found three people had been injured. Despite the efforts of medics, two of that group have now died. Their...
A chef on board a Eurotunnel train narrowly escaped being killed today after Eurotunnel train ripped out 400 metres of overhead cabling whilst on route to France we can reveal. A shaken worker was nearly killed after the pantograph got caught and...
Police were called around 7.40pm on Friday (October 22) to reports of a man in possession of a weapon. As officers attended the scene in Horsham Road, two people suffered injuries consistent with being caused by a bladed article. The victims were...
There are currently severe delays on the M20 near Folkestone due to ongoing issues at the Channel Tunnel. An investigation into a ‘technical incident’ in the Eurotunnel has resulted in delays of over an hour for traffic heading for the...
Investigators have made an arrest following a serious assault in Canterbury. Kent Police was called at 2.52am on Saturday 23 October 2021 to reports of an altercation on Victoria Row, Canterbury. During the incident, it is alleged a woman in her...
The Met took part in the latest national county lines intensification week, which ran from Monday, 11 October to Sunday, 17 October. County lines is the name given to drug dealing where criminals use phone lines to move and supply drugs, usually...
An arrest has been made by officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate as part of an investigation into the reported rape of a man in Gillingham. Kent Police received a report that a sexual offence had taken place at around 1.30am on...
Officers were called at 8.10pm on Wednesday, 20 October to reports of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian in Maidstone Road, Sidcup. Officers attended along with medics from the London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance. A man in...
The incident happened near the High Street at around midday on Tuesday 21 September 2021. It is alleged two men approached a man in his 60s and distracted him while they stole a quantity of cash from his parked car. Officers are now able to release...
. Ali Harbi Ali, 25 of north London, was charged on Thursday, 21 October with murder (contrary to common law), and preparation of terrorist acts (contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006). The charges were authorised by the Crown Prosecution...
Witnesses are sought to a collision between a car and a motorcycle on the M23 southbound this evening (Wednesday 20 October). The male rider has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following the incident, which occurred near Pease Pottage...
Witnesses are sought to a collision between a car and a motorcycle on the M23 southbound this evening (Wednesday 20 October). The male rider has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following the incident, which occurred near Pease Pottage...
HOW DID THIS START-UP REVOLUTIONISE AN INDUSTRY AND WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR THE ‘LOTTO’ LAND OF OPPORTUNITY? Back in 2013, German entrepreneur David von Rosen created a start-up based in Gibraltar with only seven other employees. The company now...
The body was found around 46 miles off the coast of Salcombe, Devon, and was brought to Southampton by a vessel on September 23. The person was wearing a ZCCO full black wetsuit, with Slinx shoes and gloves. From a post mortem, we believe the person...
At around 10.40am on Monday 18 October 2021, some of our officers from the Maidstone Task Force were on patrol in #Downswood, where they saw a suspicious blue Vauxhall van and required the driver to stop. The vehicle did not stop and continued into...
Juan Vega Uriostegui was last seen in the Solefields Road area at around 10.20am on Sunday 10 October 2021. The 16-year-old is described as being five feet and five inches tall, of slim build and with shoulder-length, wavy black hair which is...
The Met office has issued a Yellow Weather Warning for the area advising Homes and businesses are likely to be flooded, causing damage to some buildings Delays and some cancellations to train and bus services are likely Spray and flooding probably...
A car was found alight outside a garage block in Cressfield at around 3am on Monday 18 October 2021. Kent Fire and Rescue Service attended and extinguished the fire which had caused severe damage to the unattended blue Vauxhall Zafira and a...
Andre King, 20, stabbed the victim after he saw him involved in an altercation at the accommodation he lived at. During the evening of 10 June 2021, King had been in his room in the property in Burley Road, #Sittingbourne, when he heard a...
Armed Police and dog were called to the incident on Mile End Road outside the underground station at Mile End around 1am on Wednesday morning. A distressed driver press the panic button to his control room reporting that a man had taken the bus...
Two boys both 14, have been charged with assault on an emergency worker following an incident in Brent. At approximately 3.50pm on Monday, 18 October a male PCSO who was on duty in Bridge Road, Wembley was assaulted. He was not seriously injured...
David and Lewis Squires were arrested earlier this year following a series of search warrants which also uncovered a hydraulic press, used to compact the drugs into large blocks. The warrants were executed on 5 March 2021, as part of enforcement by...
Claudia Aigbogun was reported missing from The Green area of Dartford at around 9pm on Monday 18 October 2021. The 20-year-old is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, with plaited black hair, and was last seen wearing black trousers, a black coat and...
The victim was inside Bar Tantra, in Beach Street, on Sunday 3 October 2021 when he was reported to have been assaulted by a group of men at around 2am. He was in the smoking area of the club when he saw a member of his family surrounded by seven...
Parkside Community Primary School in Canterbury was one of only 70 primary schools in the United Kingdom selected to receive a special Queen’s Green Canopy tree to plant on the school site. The Pyrus calleryana Chanticleer – a medium-sized deciduous...
Officers are seeking to identify the offender following the isolated incident which happened near Wiltshire Close between 5am and 5.40am on Thursday 7 October 2021. The victim, a man aged 29, was able to seek help from an address in Devon Close...
Ali Harbi Ali, 25, is being held by police on suspicion of murdering the veteran Conservative MP as he met with his Southend West constituents on Friday afternoon. Police and intelligence officials are said to be mystified about why the 69-year-old...
Detectives are appealing for the public’s help to identify a man they wish to speak to following a serious assault in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police were called to the High Street, Beckenham at 1.22am on Sunday, 17 October following...
It is reported that a silver briefcase was found by a member of the public in a field off of Querns Road, Canterbury at around 5.30pm on Saturday, 16 October 2021. As the member of the public was holding the case a man approached her...
Crews wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel jet to put out the fire and used a positive pressure ventilation fan to ventilate the property.
