A Chatham woman will go on trial next year accused of taking part in a rape.

Samantha Hart, 31, has pleaded not guilty to the sex attack allegedly committed last month (September).

Hart, of Hartington Street, will now face trial with two others on April 6 next year.

Also charged are a 17-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, from Strood, and Charlie Olding, 21, also of Hartington Street.

Hart appeared by prison video link at Maidstone Crown Court earlier this week to plead not guilty to raping a woman, causing her to engage in a sex act and false imprisonment.

She admitted a charge of causing actual bodily harm to the woman.

The exact circumstances of the allegations were not revealed.

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