Police in Bexley are continuing to deal with the 'horse crisis' in the area after receiving reports of a dead horse in a field in Sidcup.

In a Facebook statement, Cray Meadows Police said the horse's corpse had been left on a field near Watery Lane "for some time."

Almost one week later, the body is still lying on the field while the RSPCA try to make contact with the landowner.

Police have stressed that it is the responsibility of the landowner to move the body and make the site secure.

At the same site, there are reports of a "very skinny horse" still grazing.

However, when the RSPCA inspected the land, it found no health concerns with this particular horse. 

These reports come after Police were called to a patch of land on Edgington Way where three horses were spotted grazing.

When officers arrived, no horses could be found but hay and blankets were left at the site, as well as a rope attached to a fence.

Although there were no horses at the site when it was inspected, the tiny patch of land would have left "no room for the horses to move" if they had been kept there.

They have urged anyone who may have seen the horses on the site, next to the Porsche showroom, to call 101, as the owners of the land have still not been determined.