Police cordoned off an alleyway after reports of a "bag of intestines" was found, but it later turned out to be a bag of mixed meat.

Officers were seen in the walkway between Hartington Street and Prospect Row in Chatham just after 9am.

One woman who was walking with her daughter this morning at around 8.50am walked past the black bag, which freaked her out.

She said: "We saw a black bag in the alley which looked like intestines hanging out of the bag, but I thought maybe it was some big sausages joined together so I didn't report it.

"I had to step over the bag and didn't look in it as I had my daughter with me.

"When we was walking home there was more police and it was taped off."

However, it's now been confirmed to the Medway Messenger it was a bag of offal and has since been removed.

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