POLICE have confiscated an air gun from a teenager after a woman claimed she was shot at in the street.

The incident happened as she walked past the cemetery in Westgate Court Avenue, Canterbury. The airgun is said to have been fired from behind a hedge in the cemetery.

Although not hit by pellets, the woman telephoned police who attended the scene and apprehended a youth.

However, the caller would not give her contact details and without a formal witness police were unable to charge the teenager.

A police spokesman said: "The decision was taken to speak to the boy in front of his parents and a BB gun was confiscated and later destroyed."

A Canterbury council street scene inspector also visited the cemetery following the complaint.

The council's head of environment and street scene Tony Parker added: "This behaviour in a garden of rest is totally unacceptable and the council condemns it.

"We will always take action against anyone found causing a disturbance, stealing or committing other offences in our cemeteries."