Stabbing death in Kent village

A man died from stab wounds and a woman was seriously injured after an attack at her home yesterday. Police refused to identify either of the victims but said there were early signs that the woman, in her mid-30s, had been sexually assaulted.

Officers were called to a house in Densole, near Folkestone, Kent, yesterday at about 10am after calls from neighbours. They found the dead man lying in the hallway of the house. A spokesman from Kent Constabulary said a post-mortem examination confirmed that the man, aged in his mid-40s, had died from a single stab wound to the chest. The woman will be interviewed in hospital this morning if well enough. Matthew Brace