Armed police have been called to a Canterbury housing estate after a man was reportedly threatened with a gun.

Officers were called to the property in Dickens Avenue, which in 2016 was the scene of a brutal double murder.

This morning, a large number of officers - many of them armed and some with dogs - were sent to the house shortly before 10.30am.

A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of firearms and drugs offences, with two airguns also seized.

Officers were later seen behind Argos in Sturry Road in connection with the same incident.

A police spokesman said: "Kent Police received a report at 10.22am on Monday, October 8, that a man had been threatened with a firearm at an address in Dickens Avenue, Canterbury."

They added that an arrest was made and enquiries are ongoing.

The suspect remains in police custody.

The house in Dickens Avenue was used as shared accommodation in March 2016, when Simon Gorecki and Natasha Sadler-Ellis were stabbed to death by Foster Christian.

Christian was later jailed for life for the double murder.