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Lucy Hickmott

lhickmott@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 13:40, 03 June 2019 | Updated: 13:41, 03 June 2019

Police have released footage of the moment a man tried to stab an officer in Ashford...

Sean Higgins had called 999 to report an intruder in his garden after taking cocaine in June last year.

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