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Arrest after British Transport Police vehicles damaged at Maidstone West railway station

By: Steve Waite swaite@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 07:53, 15 March 2022

Updated: 15:09, 15 March 2022

A man has been arrested after police cars parked at a railway station were damaged by being jumped on.

Dents were left in the bonnets of two British Transport Police (BTP) vehicles at Maidstone West yesterday.

A man has been arrested after British Transport Police vehicles were damaged in Maidstone. Picture: @BTPKent

CCTV was used to track the suspect's movements before an arrest was made near McDonald's.

Kent BTP tweeted that someone had "thought it would be a good idea to jump onto the bonnets of both vehicles causing damage".

A man has been arrested after British Transport Police vehicles were damaged in Maidstone. Picture: @BTPKent
A man has been arrested after British Transport Police vehicles were damaged in Maidstone. Picture: @BTPKent
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It continued: "Early turn officers viewed CCTV at the station and tracked the suspect to a number of different locations where CCTV was also checked and suspect identified with help from @KentPoliceMaid.

"As a stroke of luck later the suspect was spotted near to the McDonald’s and arrested."

A later tweet said a man had been charged.

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