A teenager is due to appear in court today charged with carrying out assaults and a robbery in Newmarket.

Kurtiss Jenkins, 18, of Stetchworth Road, Dullingham, was last night charged following incidents in the town last month.

He has been charged with stealing two handbags from a woman near the All Saints car park on October 19, assaulting a man in Wellington Street on October 4 and assaulting a second man in Icewell Hill on October 28.

Jenkins has been detained in police custody to appear before Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court today.