Sentence on three young men who carried out a daylight smash-and-grab on a Kent jewellers has been adjourned for the second time because of other similar allegations.

Corey Fregis, 18, Kiley Nightingale, 22, and 19-year-old Malachi Jones wore masks and carried sledgehammers in the raid on Fraser Hart in Fremlin Walk, Maidstone, on February 13.

After smashing the shop window, the masked trio, who later admitted burglary, made off with Rolex watches valued at about £30,000.

Catherine Donnelly, prosecuting, said Fregis, of Maxted Road, Peckham, south east London, had been charged with two other burglaries and an attempted burglary in Southampton and Eastbourne in January and February.

"It was the same MO (modus operandi) - balaclavas, suits and using sledgehammers to smash their way into the jewellers," she told Judge Charles Macdonald, QC, on Friday.

Jones, of Glengarry Road, East Dulwich, has also been charged in relation to one of the burglaries in Southampton on February 6.

Nightingale, of Perry Vale, Forest Hill, has been charged with possession of an imitation firearm on July 19 last year.

The hearing was adjourned until August 8.