Category: Abuse

A 63-year-old man has been charged with carrying out two sexual assaults on the same woman in Ashford. On Saturday 25 November 2023, it was reported that a woman was approached in…

A mother and her partner have been found guilty of murdering her 18-month-old son who died after suffering scores of injuries in Hernhill near Faversham. Sian Hedges and Jack Benham were both convicted of…

Ten arrests were made as part an operation targeting cross-border criminality led by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate and Tactical Operations team. Officers used a range of tactics…

Gillingham man, Milen Ivanov, who targeted a young victim between 1 June and 9 August 2022, after he made them believe they were in a relationship, has been jailed for the sexual abuse of…

A sex offender from Kent who abused a young child and engaged in explicit conversations with others has been jailed. Jonathan Martin filmed himself committing a number of serious sexual…

A child sex offender who was found guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child following an earlier trial was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on Thursday 2…

An Ashford man who denied abusing two children on numerous occasions from 2010 has been convicted by a jury at Canterbury Crown Court, and at the same court on 31…

A woman has been charged with multiple offences following an investigation into disturbances in Dover town centre. The town’s Victim Based Crime Team carried out enquiries into reports of shop…

A 76-year-old man who raped and sexually assaulted a young teenage girl has been jailed at Maidstone Crown Court for 18-and-a-half-years. Between 2017 and 2022 Raymond Bareham subjected the victim to ongoing abuse on…

In the early hours of Sunday 11 December 2022, a woman who was walking near Canterbury Road  was approached by a man she knew. The man, Matthew Breaker suddenly launched a violent…