{"id":602643,"date":"2025-11-30T04:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:24:24","slug":"police-hunting-gang-after-serious-assault-in-maidstone-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602643\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunting gang after serious assault in Maidstone High Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are hunting a gang after a man was punched and kicked in a serious attack in a town centre.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged the group set upon the victim in Maidstone High Street near the junction with Rose Yard.<\/p>\n<p>The force says the man was treated for head injuries before being taken to hospital for further medical attention. He has since been discharged.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened between 3.55am and 4.25am last Saturday (November 22).<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects is described as being white, 6ft and of skinny build.<\/p>\n<p>He was wearing a white T-shirt, dark blue jeans and black trainers.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said: \u201cOfficers are appealing to anyone who saw a man being assaulted in Jubilee Square to contact the appeal line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCCTV in the town centre is being reviewed and anyone with relevant mobile phone footage is also urged to get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone with information should call police on 01622 604100, quoting reference 46\/200677\/25.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or by using its online form.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hunting a gang after a man was punched and kicked in a serious attack in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[188,495,9137,12,1492,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-602643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-kent","11":"tag-maidstone","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police-appeals","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115636749250664372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602643","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=602643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}