The 19-year-old died<\/a> following an alleged assault in Belmont Road, Whitstable, in the early hours of Good Friday.<\/p>\nDetective Chief Inspector Emma Lawry said: \u201cOver the last week, officers have carried out a number of inquiries, including appealing for two men we would like to speak to.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur officers have been seen across Sittingbourne, Herne Bay and Ramsgate as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have received really good support from the public and we would like to thank them.<\/p>\n
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Multiple police cars in the Aldi car park in East Street, Sittingbourne<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo men are now in custody and we will keep the public updated as this case moves on.\u201d<\/p>\n
An air ambulance landed on nearby Westmeads Recreation Ground at about 3am, but the dad-of-one sadly died at the scene.<\/p>\n
It is believed he was known to the alleged offenders.<\/p>\n
Four arrests were made earlier this month in connection to the stabbing.<\/p>\n
Officers attended an address in Sittingbourne on April 8, where two women aged 22 and 24, and a 26-year-old man were all arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.<\/p>\n
A 21-year-old man from Sittingbourne was also arrested on suspicion of the same offence on April 5.<\/p>\n
They have all been bailed pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n
Detectives launched an appeal earlier this month to help trace two men they wished to speak with in connection with the murder investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder following a major police response after the death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,309,1071,5,6,1094],"class_list":{"0":"post-13371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-kent","10":"tag-sittingbourne","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-whitstable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116398837090203928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Ashton Harrington died in Belmont Road in Whitstable after being stabbed. Picture: Harrington family<\/p>\n