• Chatham Firearms Incident - Kent Police Update

  By jayenolan at 16:42 on 04/02/12

  

  Lordswood residents began tweeting a while ago about the presence of a helicopter driving them mad - Kent Police have now confirmed there is a firearms incident in the Swift Crescent/Defiant Close area of Chatham. Residents are asked to remain inside their homes and keep up with developments via the Kent Police Twitter feed. I'll also do my best to update when I know anyting more! Rumours at the moment say it's a drugs raid with...

• Prolific Medway burglar jailed after being found hiding in a bush

  By RhysGriffiths at 14:16 on 05/01/12

  

  A PROLIFIC Medway burglar who committed a string of break-ins in Rochester has been jailed for 30 months. Kenneth Frank Mills was charged with three counts of burglary and two counts of attempted burglary. All five crimes took place on October 4 last year. The 35-year-old, formerly of Maidstone Road in Chatham, pleaded guilty to the offences and was sentenced on December 16. Mills was apprehended after police were called to a house...

• Surjit Kaur's self-confessed killers walk free as case collapses.

  By jayenolan at 22:46 on 26/10/11

  

  The family of murdered Chatham woman, Surjit Kaur, have been left devastated, as the case against the two men arrested in connection with the killing has apparently collapsed. Mrs. Kaur was visiting relatives in the Punjab district of India earlier in the year, but disappeared less than two months into the trip. Her beheaded body was later found 800 miles away from the home she was staying in, with reports suggesting that a family...

• Arrested 'Fake Nurse' worked in four Medway surgeries

  By jayenolan at 16:20 on 09/09/11

  

  A 46 year old woman has been arrested in Wales, after allegedly working as a registered nurse in Medway for four years without the appropriate qualifications. More than 1000 patients received vaccinations and over 300 women had smear tests carried out by her, all of whom have all been written to and offered re-tests and new vaccinations. Denise Stewart worked in four Medway surgeries between August 2006 and September 2010: They...

• Is there an arsonist on the loose in Medway?

  By jayenolan at 16:20 on 02/09/11

  

  A spate of fires throughout Medway in recent weeks has left many people wondering if we have a serial arsonist at large. Kent Police have launched an appeal for information. Investigating officer, Detective Inspector Geoff Payne said:"The fires are believed to be suspicious but at this stage we are not treating the fires as linked." Superintendent Rachel Adams added, "I can understand that having these incidents occur...

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