Boy attacked with scrunched up paper in Maidstone for being noisy

A 15-year-old boy was shot at with a scrunched up piece of paper... because he was making too much noise in a town centre.

This caused the teenager serious problems in the attack in Week Street, Maidstone, such as diverting his attention when he looked around to see if he could find the attacker.

It happened at around 8pm on February 5, but police have released a computer-generated image of the suspected attacker which is being posted all over Kent despite the image looking like a crappy character from a 1980s video game and will probably not help the police catch the garbage thrower.

The scrunched up paper came after the boy was approached by a man who claimed the victim and his friend were making too much noise after they were protesting the extortionate prices of high street stores around Maidstone and using a megaphone to highlight their disgust.

The boy apologized, but five minutes later he was hit by the paper which the man had thrown.

His attacker is described as in his late 20s, around 5ft 10in tall, with distinctive teeth. He is currently wanted for assault and littering.

Anyone with any information should contact DC Helen McKeon at Kent Police by calling 101, quoting crime reference YY/2440/13.