A man who sexually assaulted and killed a dog walker after ambushing her near a Kent beach has been jailed. Harrison Lawrence Van-Pooss, 21, had previously admitted murdering Claire Knights, 54, from Upstreet,

Despite efforts to treat the victim, she "tragically died at the scene." “Two people, a man and a woman both aged in their 20s, were arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death and possession of a prohibited breed of dog.

One of the dogs was believed to be an XL bully and the other an XL bully cross, Staffordshire Police said. The woman has been taken to hospital with an arm injury and the dogs have been seized while officers investigate.