A TEARAWAY teenager has become the first person in Trafford to have an anti-social behaviour order placed on him.

The measure means the 15 year-old - who cannot be named for legal reasons - is banned from two areas of the borough.

A hearing at Trafford Magistrates Court heard the youth had carried out a catalogue of offences - including abusive, disorderly and threatening behaviour, burglary, taking cars, and breaking bail restrictions.

His behaviour had led to Trafford Council obtaining an injunction against his mother in December 1998 and evicting his family from their home in Sale Moor in May this year.

Forty-four people gave statements about his behaviour. The hearing was told of a string of incidents over an eight month period. On one occasion he was abusive to a neighbour and dropped his trousers to bare his buttocks. He directed racist abuse at another neighbour after eggs were thrown at her door, and was a persistent nuisance to pensioners in flats in the area.

Alvin Kim Ho, the owner of the Chinese takeaway The Gold Lion on North Parade, had eggs thrown at his window and was verbally abused by the boy. Later the youth made a series of frightening 'phone calls to the owner, saying "you are dead" and "I am coming down to kill you."

He burgled a house in Derbyshire Road South, Sale Moor, and made off in a car from the house which was later found in a ditch. He also burgled a house in Cranleigh Drive, Brooklands, and is currently serving a 10 month sentence in secure accommodation for burglary and taking a car offences.

Stipendiary magistrate Miriam Shelvey granted the Chief Constable's application for an anti-social behaviour order which bans him from Sale Moor and Brooklands for three years. He will also break the order if he carries out any anti-social behaviour anywhere in Trafford.

Mrs Shelvey said of the boy: "He has shown disregard for the community in which he lived. That disregard was persistent and targeted at vulnerable people.

"I regard his acts as forming an established pattern of behaviour, with threats, intimidation and verbally abusing people.

"His behaviour persisted even when he knew his family would lose their home as a result."

Counsel Peter Cadwallader, representing the police, said: "The order is necessary because has has persistently committed anti-social acts."

It would also prevent him being influenced by peer pressure in the area, he added.

Rebecca Pearson, representing the boy, said the order was not necessary as he was in custody and would not be released into the community for five months. The boy also would not be moving back to the area, as his mother hoped to be rehoused in Bolton and he planned to live with her. He had shown a positive attitude while he had been in secure accommodation. His conduct there was described as excellent, he has shown a caring nature and was popular, she added.

After the case, Sgt Michael Kerrigan from Sale Police Station said they had received complaints about him from harassed neighbours almost every day: "We are determined to bring some peace to these estates where anti-social behaviour is taking place."

Trafford Council, leader Cllr David Acton, said: "Working in partnership with the police, we are determined to improve the quality of life for all residents. Our success in getting this order will send out the message that persistent anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated."

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