Three youths accused of using a man as a battering ram during raid at a Gillingham house are to face a new hearing.

The original trial was halted while the jury at Maidstone Crown Court was considering its verdicts.

They were discharged and a new trial date is to be set.

During the alleged attack on October 21 last year, a baby was knocked out of its buggy and injured.

It was only after the men fled that the couple noticed the overturned pram and the one-year-old baby crying with bumps on its head.

Benjamin Nwojeh, 20, of Harper Road, Southwark; Kieran Appiah, 18, of Mount Nod Road, Streatham, and Leonard Warner, 19, of Aylesbury, Bucks, have all denied robbing two youngsters of their mountain bikes in Hilly Fields Park in Parr Avenue, Gillingham.

Nwojeh and Warner have also pleaded not guilty to robbing a family in James Street, Gillingham, of their life savings of between £600 to £1,000.

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