A man has been charged after a police chase from the Isle of Sheppey to Abbey Wood.

David Knott, 24, of Bromhedge in Eltham, is set to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court today charged with aggravated taking of a vehicle without consent and driving while disqualified and without insurance.

Knott is also charged with causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage relating to a separate incident on June 20 in Greenwich.

Kent Police were alerted to a potentially stolen car on the Isle of Sheppey at 10:30pm on Sunday, August 13.

Police say they saw the car just past the Sheppey Crossing on the mainland later that night and then chased it with cars and helicopters into Abbey Wood.