Stephen Dowle, formerly of Folkestone, was convicted of 12 offences, 11 of which were rape against two girls from 2000, following a trial at Canterbury...
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Officers from the city’s Community Policing Team were on patrol in the Kingsmead Road area on the morning of Wednesday 7 April 2021 when they spotted...
At around 3.40pm on 2 April 2021 a pedestrian reported being robbed in Longport after being approached by two men driving a car. The male victim was...
PD Bear and his handler assisted officers in Canterbury with a high-risk missing person. While searching the local area PD Bear located a track and after a...
On Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 March 2021 the targeted work, which covered many areas of the city including the parks and High Street, resulted in...
Kent Police was called to a disturbance at an address near the village of Ash at 12.45am on Saturday 27 March 2021. Officers attended and, following a...
Kent Police was called at 3.39pm on Thursday 11 March 2021 after a silver Citroen C4 left the A2 coastbound carriageway near the junction with New Road...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of a shed fire on Mountain Street near Canterbury
Two fire engines were sent to the scene, and crews wearing breathing apparatus used ladders for access and hose reel jets to tackle the fire. The blaze is...
Students are being urged to take responsibility for their health and the safety of those around them by complying with Government rules to limit the spread...
Officers from Canterbury’s Community Safety Unit were assisted by the Roads Policing Unit’s Road Safety Team in the towns on the week beginning...
Serhat and Agid Yalcin assaulted the victim, who is in his sixties, in the city’s High Street on Tuesday 1 September 2020. They stamped on and...
Marain Macovei, 25, of Germany and Lulian-Ioan Stratulat, 25, from Romania, appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Monday 1 March, where they received 12-and...
The warrants, at eleven addresses, were executed on Wednesday, 3 March, and resulted in ten people being arrested. They have since been charged with...
The vehicle was travelling along Sturry Road in the direction of the city centre and was just passing South Street when the incident happened, at around 10...
Jason Pitt, 47, was caught on CCTV approaching the property during the afternoon of Wednesday 20 January 2021. Following an investigation by Kent...
Witnesses are being asked to come forward after the windscreen of a bus was smashed while being driven in Canterbury.. The vehicle was travelling along Sturry...
The two-day operation, which was led by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, saw eight pre-planned warrants carried out in areas including...
Information is sought to help find a girl who has been reported missing from Barham near Canterbury. Olivia Sands was last seen in the village at around 10amon...
At around 7.30pm on Friday 12 February 2021, officers on patrol stopped a car which was being driven in Rheims Way. Suspecting the two occupants were...
A woman has suffered burns to her hands, arms and feet following a fire involving a mobile home, caravan and an outbuilding in Hoath near Canterbury. The burns...
Kent Police attended the city centre on Tuesday 9 February following a report that a man had been assaulted on two occasions, in St George’s Street and in a...
Three feral youths have been detained by officers from Kent police following what is understood to have been a fight. Police were called after shocked...
At around 2.50pm on Wednesday 27 January 2021, a vehicle failed to stop for officers when requested to do so in the Park Farm Road area of Folkestone. A...
A red Jaguar XF car was travelling east in Broad Oak Road, towards the junction with Vauxhall Road, when it was involved in a collision with a man. The...
In December 2018 Charlie Anderson gained the trust of a man who was staying in hospital who then asked him to withdraw a week’s worth of pension money on his...
Two fire engines were sent to the scene and crews used hose reel jets to put the fire out. No casualties were reported. It’s believed the fire started...
Officers carried out the warrant at a property in Halstead Close on the morning of Monday 18 January 2021. Around 101 cannabis plants were seized, as well...
The victim, who was 17 at the time, was assaulted in Rose Lane, following a verbal altercation between two groups of young people during the early evening...
A suspected burglar has appeared in court charged with multiple offences following his arrest in Canterbury. Stephen McGarr was arrested in the city on the...
On Wednesday 6 January 2021, at around 10pm, two people are reported to have broken into a property in Military Road, threatened the occupant and demanded...
Officers are investigating the damage caused to the windows of seven vehicles as well as a damaged window to a property overnight between Monday 4 January...
The incident happened at around 5pm on Thursday 31 December 2020 in London Road. It is alleged a 17-year-old boy was walking near St Dunstan’s Church when...
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have charged a man with murder following the death of a woman in Canterbury. Kent Police was...
Kent Police was called at 1.26am on Tuesday 29 December 2020 following a report that a motorist had been injured in Sturry Road. It was reported that the...
Across September and October 2020, Lucretia Stanescu committed 14 theft offences against members of staff working at shops in Dover, Whitstable...
A jail term has been imposed on a man who carried out a sexually-motivated assault on a woman in Canterbury. Jack Smith punched and kicked the woman on a...
Further fines have been issued over the past week to individuals breaching Government Covid-19 regulations. In Canterbury on Wednesday 16 December 2020...
Jonathan Norman, Christopher Charlton, James Martin, Zena Watts and Samantha McKeown were responsible for distributing Class A drugs to users in Ramsgate for...
Seamus Dyson, 20, and Bobby Turner, 18, attacked their victim two weeks after exchanging words when they pushed past him on the platform. They were...
A major search involving all three emergency services in the village of Barham in Kent has been stood down following the discovery of a teenager believed to be...
A major search for Luke Webb has sprung into action after he went missing on Saturday. Police say the teen was last seen in the Barnham area near Canterbury at...
A sleepy Kent village on the outskirts of Canterbury is at the centre of a major search operation involving a Police helicopter and approx 50 search volunteers...
A sleepy Kent village on the outskirts of Canterbury is at the centre of a major search operation involving a Police helicopter and approx 50 search volunteers...
Between 1 December and 3 December 2020, two people living in the Sevenoaks and Tonbridge areas were contacted by fraudsters claiming to be officers at the...
Jobe Norton, 20, was arrested by firearms officers after a disturbance in the Sussex Avenue area of the city at around 4pm on Thursday 9 April 2020. He...
An investigation into the burglary of a Canterbury shop has resulted in a man being charged. Kent Police was called to the business in Burgate near...
Officers from Kent Police and Paramedics from South East Coast Ambulance Service have been called to Sturry Road in Canterbury. Emergency crews rushed...
Train operators South Eastern have said that they will attempt not run a service but there are likely to be delays following signalling cables being attacked...