Kent Police was called to a report that a woman had been assaulted at an address in Heathfield Avenue at 11.30am on Thursday 12 October 2023.
Officers attended along with South East Coast Ambulance Service and a woman in her 70s was taken to a London hospital, where she remains in a stable condition receiving treatment for injuries consistent with stab wounds.
Following enquiries at the scene, a man who is known to the victim was arrested at a property elsewhere in the town around half an hour later.
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have since charged Mark Roberts with attempted murder.
The 51-year-old, of Auden Way, Dover, appeared before Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 17 October and was remanded in custody to appear before Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday 14 November.
