A teenage boy has been charged with multiple offences following a disturbance at a place of worship in Gravesend. Kent Police was called to the Sri Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara at 8.10pm on Thursday 11 July 2024. It was reported there was a disturbance inside the premises and that two women were assaulted outside the building shortly afterwards. Officers attended the scene where a local teenage boy was arrested. Nobody was seriously injured during the incident and the constables recovered a bladed weapon.
[block_2]On Saturday 13 July, a 17-year-old boy was charged by investigators from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, using or threatening unlawful violence, threats to kill, threatening a person with a bladed weapon and possessing a bladed article in a public place. The teenager was remanded in custody to appear before Maidstone Crown Court later the same day.
