{"id":336224,"date":"2025-08-11T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336224\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:02:18","slug":"three-children-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-on-isle-of-sheppey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336224\/","title":{"rendered":"Three children arrested on suspicion of murder on Isle of Sheppey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Sexton<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, South East<\/p>\n<p>Piers Hopkirk &amp; John Nurden<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, Leysdown-on-Sea<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753966091_383_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/66218290-76ac-11f0-8155-5f8739f897b4.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"UKNIP A police officer stands in the foreground. In the background is a white police tent just in front of the beach. A police officer stands next to it.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>UKNIP<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, have been arrested by Kent Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Three children have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Officers and an air ambulance were called to Warden Bay Road shortly after 19:00 BST on Sunday, following reports of an altercation and a man being assaulted, Kent Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The man, aged in his 40s, sustained serious injuries and was confirmed dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, remain in police custody, pending further inquiries, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753966091_383_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fed37270-76af-11f0-8155-5f8739f897b4.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"UKNIP A Kent Police van parked in a car park. In the background, police officers stand on a footpath.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>UKNIP<\/p>\n<p>Police appealed for any witnesses or anyone with information to get in touch<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Paul Bentley, 61, a resident in Leysdown, said: &#8220;The community is going to have to deal with this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;This kind of thing just doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Letitia Etherington added: &#8220;It&#8217;s just shocking. This is a predominantly quiet area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753966091_383_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bea8a7f0-76ce-11f0-841b-3d31b3a72b3a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Piers Hopkirk \/ BBC A bald man wearing glasses and a black t-shirt. He is stood in front of a red door.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Piers Hopkirk \/ BBC<\/p>\n<p>The community in Leysdown has been shocked by the incident<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A police cordon has been set up in a large clearing behind the beach, in front of a caravan park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A public footpath to the beach has also been cordoned off by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An officer was seen standing guard at a fenced off area of land near the beach on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Specialist officers brought a police dog to the crime scene as they continued their search for evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753966091_383_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ec5ea340-76c7-11f0-a20f-3b86f375586a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A map of the Isle of Sheppey. Leysdown-on-Sea is marked on the right of the map. A smaller map of Great Britain is embedded in the top right corner.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The area is just off the north Kent coast and is a popular location for beachgoers<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">One eyewitness, who was on holiday in the area, told the BBC that there were about 100 bystanders as police arrived at the scene on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He said: &#8220;I saw the helicopter landing and a lot of police personnel trying to resuscitate someone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;That was about 19:30 on Sunday and now it is a crime scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753966091_383_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1e71afc0-76c4-11f0-8a14-9d11d87490b5.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Letitia Etherington A yellow air ambulance which has landed in a field\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Letitia Etherington<\/p>\n<p>South East Coast Ambulance Service confirmed it had also been called to the scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Anton Jasnu, who owns a shop in the area, told the BBC he ran out from his shop when he saw someone receiving CPR on the beach of Leysdown-on-Sea, which has a population of just under 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">South East Coast Ambulance Service confirmed it had also been called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kevin McKenna, MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, said he was &#8220;deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kent Police appealed for any witnesses or anyone with information to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Sexton BBC News, South East Piers Hopkirk &amp; John Nurden BBC News, Leysdown-on-Sea UKNIP A 16-year-old girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-336224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011213598375322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}