A Frenchman has appeared in court charged with three offences after a police officer was stabbed at the Port of Dover.

It happened at 1.50pm on Tuesday, February 9, when officers went to investigate an allegation of threatening behaviour involving two passengers on board the P&O Ferries’ ship Pride of Calais at the Eastern Docks.

While officers investigated the incident PC Andrew Atkinson suffered a knife wound to his thigh and was taken to the William Harvey Hospital at Ashford.

He was later released after treatment.

Michel Berman, 61, who has no fixed address in the UK, was arrested and charged with causing grievous bodily harm to PC Atkinson with intent, assaulting P&O Ferries' worker Nigel Davies causing actual bodily harm, and possessing a pointed bladed article in a public place.

He appeared in court at Folkestone on Friday, February 12 and was remanded in custody.