A 23-year-old man has been charged with robbery after a man was thrown into a river on Wednesday.

Two other men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of robbery.

A group robbed a man of his phone, bank card and cash in Berkeley Avenue at 2.30am before throwing him into the river.

He suffered a head injury before climbing up the bank a short distance downstream.

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The group had befriended the man at St Mary’s Church in Reading town centre earlier that night.

Kieron Stannard, aged 23, of Reading Road, Winnersh, has been charged with one count of robbery in connection with the incident.

Two men from Reading, a 48-year-old and a 39-year-old, were arrested on suspicion of robbery and have been bailed until August 2.

An 18-year-old woman from Reading has been arrested on suspicion of robbery and remains in police custody.