A man has been accused of stealing £130 of alcohol from a supermarket and trying to steal £500 of clothing from a shop.

Paul Fogel, of Goods Station Road, Tunbridge Wells was yesterday (November 5) charged with three counts of theft and one of attempted theft after police made inquiries into a string of incidents in recent weeks.

The bottles of spirits were stolen from Sainsbury’s on October 21 while the attempted theft of clothing happened at Marks & Spencer in Calverley Road on October 31.

In M&S, the man was challenged by a security guard and left.

The following day, two parcels that had been left by a delivery company at separate addresses in Newton Road were reported stolen.

The 44-year-old was arrested on November 4 and remanded in custody to appear before Medway Magistrates’ Court today (November 6).