A crown court has been evacuated due to a major incident this morning. Staff, members of the public, and reporters were told they needed to leave Maidstone Crown Court as a result of a gas leak. The site in Barker Road, near McDonald’s and the Lockmeadow leisure complex, has now been shut off. The gas leak was in the cells and caused an evacuation of judges, lawyers, court, and security staff. One witness at the scene said: “Cases had just begun in the eight courts when everyone was ordered to leave the building. “As gas engineers began searching for the cause of the leak, court bosses decided…