A suspected burglar has appeared in court after two restaurants were targeted.

Staff at a restaurant in Will Adams Way, Gillingham, reported the premises had been broken into in the early hours of January 17.

Three days later, police were notified that cash had been stolen after a restaurant was burgled overnight in Roman Way, Strood.

Lee Hutton, of Montgomery Close, Gravesend, was arrested last Thursday after an investigation by the Kent Crime Squad.

The 37-year-old was charged with two burglaries the following day, and with a count of making off without payment at a petrol station on January 19.

Hutton appeared before Medway Magistrates Court where he was conditionally bailed to a hearing at Woolwich Crown Court on March 31.