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Rowing club’s success is a real family affair
PARENTS and children helped Maidstone Invicta Rowing Club return to town with the Victor Lu- dorum after a fantastic day of wins at the Sudbury annual regatta. The club bagged 17 wins out of
the 72 events run on the day to be- come overall winners. Second best were Broxbourne RC with nine wins and third positionwas shared by hosts Sudbury and Cantabrid- gians with six each. This year was the 135th in the Sudbury club’s history and the new event – the parent and child double scull – was won by two parent and son/daughter crews from Maid- stone. Brian Humphris and son Will
were victorious, along with father and daughter combination James and Ella Knight. There were no senior men wins
this year, but every senior lady came away with a pot, making 33 in total for the Maidstone crew mem- bers and the club’s greatest win to date. In the junior categories, the first race of the day was won by Oscar
Advertisement feature The victorious ladies from Maidstone Rowing Club at Sudbury regatta
Knight, of Maidstone Grammar School, and Ross Bain, of Oakwood School, in the J13 2x (double). In the senior categories, winners included Nov 2x Tom Long and Adam Chappell-Tay; Sophie Tay- lor, Rosie Warren (both of Maid- stone Girls Grammar School) and Eloise Collings (of St Simon Stock); WNov 4+ Keira Wigley, Rebecca Lovegreen, Cherry Fermor, Heidi Fermor and coxswain Abigail Leek; WIM3 2x Daisy Stillwell (of Invicta
Grammar) and KeiraWigley. The most significant winswere in
the Masters categories, where nearly all single boat categories were won by Maidstone Invicta at each age level, as follows: Mas B 1x James Knight; Mas C 1x Brian Humphris; Mas D 1x Geraint Evans; Mas E 1x Richard Huggins; Mas F 1x Ray Phillips; Mas C/D 2x Richard Huggins and Geraint Evans;Mas G/H 2x Keith Jones and Tony Marshall.
downsmail.co.uk Sex offender’s
strip games A SEX offender who played strip card games with two children has been jailed for 14 years. Graham Stewart (52), formerly of Spitfire Road, West Malling, rou- tinely abused one of the girls from the mid-1990s until about 2004. He was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court having been con- victed of seven counts of indecent assault and five counts of inde- cency with a child. The court heard how Stewart, a former delivery driver, encouraged the girls to play a card game in the back of his van in which they had to remove an item of clothing if they lost. On another occasion he offered to pay them to touch him inappropriately. Detective Constable Barry Good-
sell, of Kent Police, said: “There is no excuse for what Graham Stew- art did to these two young girls. They showed great courage in re- porting his terrible crimes to police. “The sentence imposed on Stew-
art reflects the seriousness of his ac- tions and sends a clear message to anyone else who abuses children for their own sexual gratification. “I would like to assure victims of
sexual abuse that their reports will be thoroughly investigated, no matter the length of time that has passed since the incident.”
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