{"id":340931,"date":"2025-08-13T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:43:12","slug":"children-charged-with-murder-after-man-killed-on-isle-of-sheppey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340931\/","title":{"rendered":"Children charged with murder after man killed on Isle of Sheppey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Sexton<\/p>\n

BBC News, South East<\/p>\n

\"FamilyFamily Handout<\/p>\n

Alexander Cashford, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene in Leysdown-on-Sea in Kent<\/p>\n

Three children have been charged with the murder of a man who was found dead on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.<\/p>\n

A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, were arrested following an altercation in Leysdown-on-Sea on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Alexander Cashford, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n

A 12-year-old girl was also arrested in connection with the incident on Tuesday in Basildon, Essex, and remains in custody.<\/p>\n

The trio, who are all from London, have been charged with murder by joint venture.<\/p>\n

They have been remanded in custody to appear before Medway Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

They cannot legally be named due to their age. <\/p>\n

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Kent Police said it was continuing to appeal for any witnesses to come forward<\/p>\n

Police said Mr Cashford was assaulted following a disturbance involving a small group of people in the Warden Bay Road area, close to Jetty Road, at 19:00 BST on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He sustained “multiple injuries” to his body, a police spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

Kevin McKenna, MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, previously said he was “deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic incident”.<\/p>\n

Kent Police said it was continuing to appeal for any witnesses to come forward. <\/p>\n

Anyone who has information or who has CCTV or dashcam footage is urged to contact the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Sexton BBC News, South East Family Handout Alexander Cashford, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021047799681827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340931","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=340931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}