Man arrested for wasting police time
Published: 11:00, 04 March 2008
POLICE investigating an alleged racially related stabbing in Kent have arrested a man on suspicion of wasting police time, perverting the course of justice and theft.
The 33-year-old Gillingham man was arrested yesterday evening.
Earlier police appealed for a Good Samaritan who helped a man in Cuxton who complained he had been stabbed with a broken bottle after a gang of teenagers shouted racial abuse at him on Monday evening.
Officers are no longer appealing for information about the incident. The arrested man was in police custody.
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