A Kent MP's office has been daubed with graffiti calling him a "war terrorist".

The graffiti outside Damian Collins's Folkestone office appeared over the weekend in black block letters.

It also spells out the words "imperial war" on the same part of the wall outside his constituency office in the town centre.

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Mr Collins, the MP for Folkestone and Hythe, voted in favour of military action in Syria when parliament sat to decide in December 2015.

It follows missile strikes by the USA last week in response to a gas attack allegedly carried out by the Syrian government killed dozens of civilians.

VIDEO: The wall outside his office has been vandalised

The UK government said President Trump's decision to bomb a Syrian airfield - thought to have been where the chemical attack was launched - was "an appropriate response".

After parliament's vote in 2015, the UK agreed to join an American led coalition to launch air strikes against Islamic State rebels.

MP for Folkestone and Hythe Damian Collins said: "We have referred the matter to the police.

"We live in a country where there is free speech and expression, and it is a shame with incidents like this that people choose to express themselves with acts of vandalism.

"There are lots of people that get in touch with all sorts of issues.

"We are a country engaged in fighting real terror to try and give people the freedoms we have in this country.

"We don't want to see vandalism wherever it is."

Mr Collins said the graffiti was being dealt with today (Monday).