A man has been charged with rape and a series of other offences after two alleged attacks in Gravesend.

On Sunday (March 22) at around 5.20am, a woman called Kent Police to report she had been attacked by a man in an alleyway off Parrock Street.

The man also stole some of her belongings.

On Wednesday, officers arrested 19-year-old Edison Mulaj of New Road, Gravesend.

Today he was charged with rape.

He was also charged with attempted rape, sexual assault and robbery in connection with another incident in Gravesend when a woman reported she was sexually assaulted and had her bag stolen in Norfolk Road on February 16.

Mulaj remains in police custody to appear at Dartford Magistrates' Court tomorrow (March 28).