Police are hunting a gang after a man was punched and kicked in a serious attack in a town centre.<\/p>\n
It is alleged the group set upon the victim in Maidstone High Street near the junction with Rose Yard.<\/p>\n
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
The incident happened between 3.55am and 4.25am last Saturday (November 22).<\/p>\n
One of the suspects is described as being white, 6ft and of skinny build.<\/p>\n
He was wearing a white T-shirt, dark blue jeans and black trainers.<\/p>\n
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
\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
Anyone with information should call police on 01622 604100, quoting reference 46\/200677\/25.<\/p>\n
You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or by using its online form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hunting a gang after a man was punched and kicked in a serious attack in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,59,57,58,191,1318,50,21819,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-290265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kent","tag-maidstone","tag-news","tag-police-appeals","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}