A woman has been charged in connection with the murder of a man found dead on a Sheppey beach.

Lisa Terry, 32, is accused of perverting the course of justice over 34-year-old Gary Pocock's death.

She is the sixth person charged over the killing of Mr Pockock, who was discovered naked from the waist down on a Warden beach.

Officers were called at just before 6am on Wednesday, August 7 after a body was found on the beach between Little Groves caravan site and Isle of Sheppey Holiday Village.

A post mortem examination concluded Mr Pocock, from Dagenham, in east London, died of significant head injuries.

Five people have been charged with murdering Mr Pocock and remanded in custody.

They are Christopher Bones, 20, of Dorothy Gardens, Dagenham; Matthew Terry, 20, and 44-year-old Mark Terry, both of Grantham Road, Manor Park in Newham; Jamie West, 19, of Cliffe View Gardens, in Warden; and a 15-year-old boy from Warden who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Terry, of Grantham Road, in Manor Park, Newham, London, is due at Maidstone Crown Court next Friday along with the other five defendants.

They are expected to appear for a plea and case management hearing.

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