Police have arrested five people after two robberies in which phones were swiped.

In the first offence on July 10, two teenage boys reported they were threatened in an alleyway off St Mary’s Road in Swanley at around 8pm.

Cash and a mobile phone were alleged to have been stolen.

Then, two days later, five teenage boys were approached in Knole Park, Sevenoaks and threatened with violence unless they handed over their phones and cash.

Police arrested five people on Wednesday in connection with the offences.

A 36-year-old man from Dartford, three men aged 19 from Bromley and Orpington and a 17- year-old boy from London have all been bailed, pending further enquiries, to return to a police station on September 22.