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Charitywalk
A CHARITY walk is being held in EastMalling on July 2 2 . Malling District Lions Club has
organised the walk to raise funds for prostate cancer charities. It starts at the research centreand
offers athree-mile route or one of seven. For details call 0 1 7 3 2 8 4 1 0 7 8 ,
emailmallinglionswalk@gmail.com or
visitwww.mallinglions.club.
Help isn
TRAVELLERS have moved back onto a popular park in Larkfield for the second time in six months. The families - in five caravans -
AYOUTHclub is looking formore volunteers. The centre in Ditton is also used
by Ditton Minors FC and as an in- ternet café for silver surfers, but help is needed to reinvigorate its role as a youth centre. Email dit-
tonyouthcentre@gmail.com or go along for achat.
Catapu lt aack AMANwas treatedin hospital fora headinjuryafterareportedcatapult incident in EastMalling. Kent Police were called to ColumbineRoad onThursday, June 2 1 ,whereamanwasallegedto have been assaulted. The injury is not be- lieved to be serious.
pulled on to Gighill Green in Lunsford Lane on Sunday October ,, releasing dogs on the popular public open space and setting up washing lineswithin hours. It is un- derstood the fami- lies in- vol v e d have been of f e r ing tree felling services to residents in the area. Pa r i s h
eeded
or Crimestoppers on 0 8 0 0 5 5 5 1 1 1 . dent, in early summer, costing the
parish council £1,200, with the trav-
cou n ci l chairman David Thornewell says more has to be done to stop the travelling com- munity running circles around the police and local councils. Hesays the job ofmoving on trav- ellers for a sec nd time will run into thousands of pounds The last inci-
Call Kent Police on 0 1 6 2 2 6 0 4 1 0 0
Anotherincursion at Larkfield park
Phone frau d ster jailed afterKent scamaempt
ellers simply moving on to take up temporary residence elsewhere in the area. He said: “They just seem to be
doing the rounds. These incidents have affectedWestMalling, forcing the closure of the village hall, and Leybourne, and now they are back in Larkfield. The police told resi- dents that this was a civil trespass when they reported it and that they couldn’t do anything and obviously the council offices were closed be- cause it was the weekend. These travellers know and play the sys- tem.” The council’s legal teamserved an ones and 2 3 6 empty iPhone boxes. enforce. Cllr Thornewell held talks
Valdemar Kalinin (pictured), of
AN iPhone frau d ster cau ght with d ozens of fak e hand sets at his home ad d ress has beenjailed for two years and fivemonths. The racket being committed by
MirzaKamran (3 7 ) caught upwith himafter an incident inAylesford. The criminal
from London
searched his home and discovered Kamran i‘Spooktacular’ at the farm 5 3 counterfeit iPhones, 4 8 genuine
scammed businesses out of thou- sands of pounds by purchasing genuine iPhones fromthembefore claiming refunds in exchange for authentic-looking fakes. An investigation by detectives
s arrested at Heathrow
evictio notice but it took aweek to Itwas later established that 3 3 of with Laddingford Engineering in an effort to increase security further on the public land, near theM20.
the National Gypsy-Traveller-Roma Council said recently that local councils must provide designated traveller sites or “tolerated zone” which gypsy convoys can move onto. He said: “It comes down to racial prejudice against this com- munity.”
the 4 8 genuine iPhones had been reported lost or stolen, and that one business in particular had attrib- uted a loss of £4 3 ,4 1 0 to the of- fences committed against them by Kamran. Kamran was sentenced at Maid-
stone Crown Court on Friday, July 6 , after pleading guilty to fraud by false representation, possessing an
article for use in fraud, and pos- sessing criminal property. The court heard howonWednes-
day, September 2 7 last year, Kam- ran bought an iPhone from Argos in Sainsbury’s on the Quarry Road Industrial Estate, Aylesford. The cashier was suspicious of him and took a photograph of the serial number printed on the box before completing the transaction. Kamran left the store, but re-
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turnedminutes later and asked for a refund, claiming the person he was buying it forwanted the phone in adifferent colour. The cashier alerted a security
guard when she noticed the serial number was different, but they were unable to prevent Kamran leaving the store and driving away. However, the registration number of his silverHondaCivicwas noted and passed onto the police. InApril, an address in EastHam,
MAKE the most of the October half-term holiday at Kent Life Heritage Farm Park’s Halloween Spooktacular in Maidstone. Brave kids are invited to the vintage village to knock on doors and
discover who – or what – is lurking behind them from October 21-31. The award-winning attraction at Sandling, near Maidstone, has a few
other tricks up its sleeve to turn its usual exhibits into frightening farmhouses and horrifying homes. Youngsters can try pumpkin carving, dressing up and the Ugly Bug Ball. On October 25, there will be more spooky goings-on with Kent Life
5-6pm and, for older visitors, from 7-8pm. If you would like to know more about any of the above, call 01622 763936.
London, was searched where offi- cers also found five counterfeit Apple Watches, the fake handsets and numerous receipts and in- voices related to the purchase of iPhones. Kamran was arrested at
Heathrow Airport after returning fromatrip to Pakistan. Detective Inspector Annie Clay-
After Dark, This event includes a spine-chilling tour suitable for under-eights from
ton said: “I hope this serves as a warning to other would-be fraud- sters that nomatter howsmart you may think you are, the law will al- ways catch upwith you.”
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