A 16-year-old has sent out a warning to other young women after a man tried to grab her and yelled at her to get in his car as she walked home from college.

Kezia Owen, a Canterbury College student, was walking home after getting off the train in Selling, just outside Faversham, when a car pulled up behind her, flashing and beeping the horn.

She says the car then sped up alongside her and the driver repeatedly shouted at her to get in the car.

As she walked faster towards home, the driver followed her, opened the car door, and tried to grab Kezia’s hand.

Kezia said: “As soon as I saw his hand come towards me, I kicked his door shut. I started yelling at him to leave me alone.

“As soon as I saw his hand come towards me, I kicked his door shut. I started yelling at him to leave me alone" - Kezia

“I was scared but he kept pestering me to get in the car. I hit his hand away one more time and at that point, he just started laughing and drove away.

“I thought at first it may have been someone I knew but when I realised it wasn’t, I tried to get away, but he kept on at me. It was terrifying.”

Kezia, who has lived in Selling for almost all her life, said this wasn’t the first time she had been approached.

She was followed by a man two years ago and one of her friends suffered a similar experience last year.

Kezia added: “It was dark and I was clearly very frightened, yet he wouldn’t leave me alone.

“I just hope that this doesn’t happen to anyone younger and more vulnerable.”

Kezia described the driver as a man with a eastern European accent, with short, brown hair and in his 30s.

She believes he was driving a dark blue car.

Police spokesman Carly Wymark said: “Police were called at 7.25pm on January 29 to a report that a teenage girl was concerned about a man in a car when she walked along Selling Road at around 6pm the same day.

“Officers made inquiries and it was established that no offences had been committed.”