UK CRIME: Man dies after being injured in Gravesend - murder probe launched
DETECTIVES have launched a murder investigation after a man died following an incident on Saturday evening.
Police were scrambled to a property in Gravesend, Kent after a man was found injured.
Officers were called to the esate at St Patrick's Gardens at 7.56pm, with the 31-year-old victim believed to have sustained injuries to his head and stomach.
The man, from Cranbrook, Kent, was taken to a specialist unit at a London hospital, but died on the Sunday morning.
It is believed he had travelled to the scene following an earlier incident at a nearby address.
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are leaading the investigation.
Kent Police
A Kent Police spokesman said: “At present no arrests have been made and enquiries to establish the full circumstances remain ongoing.”
The police investigation comes as the UK murder rate spirals, with fresh figures revealing killings in Britain have risen to to a ten-year high.
Excluding those killed in terrorist attacks at London Bridge, Westminster and Manchester, there has been a 12 per cent leap in the UK’s murder rate, according to the Office of National Statistics.
There have been at leat 89 suspected murders in London since January 2018, with just 50 in New York so far this year.
During the whole of 2017 there were 116 murders in England’s capital, compared to 286 in the Big Apple.