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A 25-year-old man has been handed a life sentence for attempting to murder a uniformed Army officer in a "vicious and deliberate" attack near a barracks in Kent.

Anthony Esan will be detained in hospital indefinitely after repeatedly stabbing Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton with two knives in Sally Port Gardens, near Brompton Barracks, Chatham, on July 23 2024.

Maidstone Crown Court heard that Esan, who was diagnosed wit

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