Detectives investigating the death of a woman near Birchington have charged a man with murder

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Detectives investigating the death of a woman near Birchington have charged a man with murder

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Published: 14:21
, 18 September 2023

Updated: 02:14
, 23 May 2025

Claire Knights, 54, was initially reported missing from the village of Upstreet on Wednesday 23 August 2023.

Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate arrested a man on suspicion of murder the following day.

Following extensive enquiries, Claire was found deceased in an area between St Nicholas At Wade and Minnis Bay on Friday 25 August.

On Monday 18 September, Harrison Lawrence-van Pooss was charged with murder.

He was also charged with voyeurism following an investigation into a separate incident in which ‘upskirt’ images of a woman were covertly taken on Tuesday 22 August in Birchington.

The 20-year-old, of Margate, will appear via live link at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Monday 18 September.

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