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Read Time:1 Minute, 48 Second Six-year-old Sansa was left seriously injured by an unknown vehicle after straying onto the London-bound carriageway near Junction 9 for #Ashford, shortly after 12.30pm on Monday 17 January 2022. A paramedic blocked...
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Read Time:42 Second Steven Noble is 54 years old and was last seen during the early hours of Thursday 20 January 2022. There are growing concerns for Steven’s welfare, who is known to frequent locations in both Ashford and Sandwich, where he...
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Read Time:42 Second Steven Noble is 54 years old and was last seen during the early hours of Thursday 20 January 2022. There are growing concerns for Steven’s welfare, who is known to frequent locations in both Ashford and Sandwich, where he...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 46 Second David Saunders told members of the public who went to his aid that he was an ‘undercover officer’, before producing a set of handcuffs and a knife. The 37-year-old was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on...
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Read Time:22 Second Madaleine Vann from Maidstone was reported missing at around 9.20am on Wednesday 12 January 2022. Officers are currently searching for Madaleine in the Ashford area and are concerned for her welfare. She is...
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Read Time:35 Second Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to the home in Morgan Close, Willesborough and found the kitchen full of smoke. Using breathing apparatus and a hose reel jet the fire was extinguished. The machine suffered fire damage...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 37 Second Matthew Case, 38, was investigated by Kent Police after officers were called to reports of shouting at his home in 2021. His victim later disclosed to officers that he had been extremely controlling of her during...
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Read Time:34 Second It was reported that a teenager was out jogging at around 5.10am on 14 November 2021 in Stanhope Road when he was stopped by two men. After asking for his wallet, they assaulted him before he managed to run away to...
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Read Time:35 Second The incident is reported to have taken place at a Post Office on Roman Road at around 10.30pm on Thursday 23 December 2021. No items were taken but damage was caused to the property. A black Land Rover was seen driving...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 5 Second In the first scheme of its kind in the county, the town’s Community Safety Unit is giving accredited door staff spray cannisters to mark the clothing of potential offenders with a harmless and invisible liquid. The...
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Read Time:36 Second Kent Police was called to the location shortly before 3am on Monday 20 December 2021 following a report that a woman had been assaulted. Police dog Coty was called to assist in the search for the suspects and picked up a scent...
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Read Time:36 Second At around 3.15pm on Monday 13 December 2021, three people entered a house in Canterbury Road, Kennington, near the Conningbrook roundabout with Willesborough Road. The intruders started searching the property before they were...
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Read Time:31 Second Long delays are being reported on the M20 motorway in Kent following two Police incidents and a digger falling from the back of a vehicle. Officers from Kent Police were called along with National highways at around 7.15 pm to a...
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Read Time:47 Second At around 4pm on Tuesday 7 December 2021, a teenage girl was sitting at the bus stop on the A292 Maidstone Road, Ashford, opposite Warren Lane. A man reportedly approached the girl and exposed himself. The victim left the scene...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 2 Second Ian Masterman also pulled out a clump of the victim’s hair while he subjected her to a prolonged period of abuse inside an Ashford home in February 2021. The 55-year-old, of Endwell Road, Lewisham...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 22 Second A man aged 21, from Ashford, was detained by police in connection with three incidents that took place in the same area of town. His arrest followed a witness appeal that was released by Kent Police on Friday. The first...
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Read Time:14 Second Martin McCarthy is wanted in connection with impersonating a Police Officer in Ashford High Street. If you know where he is, call 101 quoting reference 46/248236/21. You can also call the independent charity Crimestoppers...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 45 Second The first incident took place in an alleyway alongside the Heathfield Estate near to Canterbury Road at around 7.40am. A woman in her mid to late 40s was approached by a man who tried to grab her handbag but she...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 20 Second Kent Police was called to an underpass in St George’s Street at around 3am on Wednesday 1 December 2021 after CCTV operatives spotted a small group of individuals in the area causing damage. Officers responded and...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 10 Second Kent Police was called to the Orchard Heights estate area of the town after residents reported suspicious activity taking place near a number of vehicles shortly before 2am on Thursday 2 December 2021. While...
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Read Time:24 Second Maria Sophia Osorio, 44, who is Spanish, was last seen in the Kennington Road area at around 12.05am on Monday 29 November 2021 and we are concerned for her welfare. She is described as being around 5ft 3in and at the time of her...
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Read Time:26 Second A prompt response by police led to an arrest being made in connection with a burglary in Dartford. Officers were called to a property in Ridgeway shortly before 9pm on Friday 26 November 2021. Following a...
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Read Time:25 Second Kent Police was called at 8.42am on Saturday 27 November 2021 to a report of a collision involving three vehicles on the London-bound M20, between junctions 11 and 10. Officers attended the scene alongside South East Coast...
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Read Time:5 Minute, 6 Second During a hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday 19 November 2021, Drilon Dishi was sentenced to five years and 11 months’ imprisonment having previously pled guilty to conspiring to supply cannabis. He played an...
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Read Time:25 Second Haran Bazoglu, 38 was reported missing at about 4pm on Saturday November 20 2021 having last been seen in the Willesborough area of the town. Officers are concerned for his welfare and urging anyone who may see him...
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Read Time:29 Second Kent Police is investigating a report of a defibrillator theft from a village near Ashford. It was reported that the emergency equipment was stolen from its location outside the Hub in Front Road, Woodchurch between 4pm on...
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Read Time:48 Second A lorry driver has been charged in a National Crime Agency investigation after a haul of 418 kilos of cocaine was found in a cover load of frozen onion rings. The Class A drugs which had a street value of £33m were discovered on...
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Read Time:55 Second At around 9.55am on Sunday 14 November 2021, a man in his 30s was cycling in Newtown Road when it is reported he was assaulted by two men in an underpass. The suspects are alleged to have struck the victim’s face with a...
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Read Time:36 Second Four fire engines and a bulk water carrier were sent to the scene. On arrival crews were faced with the trailers of the two vehicles on fire. Firefighters worked hard to prevent the fire from spreading to the cabs of the HGVs...
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Read Time:23 Second The westbound carriage remains closed These roadworks are overrunning due to complications with re-installing a barrier. Traffic is being diverted via the hollow square diversion symbol: Exit the M20 at J9 Join the A20...
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Read Time:28 Second It was reported that the offence took place in a public car park opposite the bus stops in Park Street between 5.50pm and around 6.35pm on Thursday 11 November 2021. We would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the incident...
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Read Time:25 Second Sue Harvey was reported missing at around 3.30pm on Thursday 4 November 2021 and was last seen in the Woodchurch area of the district. The 63-year-old is described as white, with greying light brown hair and may be wearing...
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Read Time:30 Second Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of a crash involving a car and a lorry carrying a skip in Kiln Lane, Bethersden near Ashford. On arrival the crews found the driver of the car, a woman in her 70s, trapped by her...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 24 Second The British Transport Police has begun an investigation to find out exactly what happened last night after two trains collided at Tunnel Junction outside Salisbury. As we already know, at around 6:45 pm, a GWR...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 27 Second Sam Wood, 29, of no fixed address, produced a blade at the County Hotel, Ashford, on the evening of Thursday 29 July 2021. Kent Police officers attended the pub at around 11.45pm following reports Wood had been...
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Read Time:10 Second 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. Share Facebook...
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Read Time:30 Second 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...
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Read Time:22 Second 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...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 49 Second The money – believed to be the profits of organised crime in Ireland – was found inside a suitcase belonging to 45-year-old Harm Stachouwer. He was stopped by Border Force officers at the Channel Tunnel on 25 February...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 19 Second Mohammad Setar was responsible for a seven-day crime spree during 2020, when he caused thousands of pounds of damage to businesses in areas including Hadlow and Ashford. Setar was part of a criminal gang which, between...
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Read Time:5 Minute, 20 Second PC Daniel Stride was on patrol with a colleague when a report came through about a suspected burglary in Ashford on 1 June 2018. As the officers arrived at the property, it was in complete darkness, and after searching...
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Read Time:57 Second It was reported that the victim, who is in his 30s, was walking in Queen Street at around 11.30pm on Sunday 3 October 2021 when he was approached by two men. One tried to take a phone out of the victim’s hand and the other...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 20 Second The first incident took place in the Godinton area of the town at around 7.45pm on 21 September 2021, when a home was broken into and jewellery was stolen after the property was searched. The second incident took...
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Read Time:4 Minute, 17 Second Wayne Couzens, 48 appeared at the Old Bailey on the 29 and 30 September where the court heard how he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah. He pleaded guilty to murder on Friday, 9 July. The previous month he...
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Read Time:24 Second Kent Fire and Rescue Service are currently at the scene of a large fire at a National Grid site in Sellindge, Ashford. At the height of the incident, 12 fire engines plus other specialist vehicles were fighting the fire using...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 16 Second Fahren Smith was behind the wheel of a Suzuki Swift which had five passengers inside when it left Mundy Bois Road, Egerton and collided with a tree on the evening of 4 July 2020. Millie Greenway, 17, suffered...
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Read Time:21 Second Kent Police was called just before 10am on Friday 10 September 2021 following a report of a concern for a missing light aircraft which was subsequently found in a field in Tar Pot Lane, Ashford. One man has been declared deceased...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 38 Second Christopher Sellman created an elaborate series of lies to obtain cash from two people known to him, claiming that his life was in danger and he was being held to ransom. However he was caught out when detectives...
