A teenager has pleaded guilty to rape and a series of other offences after two attacks in Gravesend.

Kent Police were called by a woman at around 5.20am on March 22 after she was attacked by a man in an alleyway off Parrock Street.

The man also stole some of her belongings.

On March 25, officers arrested 19-year-old Edison Mulaj, of New Road, Gravesend. He was charged with rape.

He was also charged 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.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and two counts of robbery at Maidstone Crown Court.

He will be sentenced at the same court in early June.