A boy of 15 is due in court today charged with five sexual assaults.

The teenager was arrested after a woman in her 60s reported being attacked in the Woodlands Road area of Gillingham.

He was remanded in custody and will appear at Medway Youth Court today.

The boy, from Gillingham, is accused of five separate counts of sexual assault by touching.

Two of the alleged attacks are said to have been committed in the Woodlands Road area and others in Chatham.