ASBO-breach youth is put away

A SIDLEY youth who broke an Anti-Social Behaviour Order only days before it expired has lost his liberty for eight months.

When Hastings Magistrates imposed the two-year Order on David Cunningham in on October 14, 2002 they ruled that his name could be published.

The Order imposed an exclusion zone prohibiting Cunningham from entering parts of the town where he had caused trouble.

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It also prohibited him from causing "alarm, harassment or distress" to other people.

Now Cunningham, 17, of Buxton Drive has reappeared before the court for three breaches last month of the Order's exclusion zone and to causing alarm, harassment or distress in an assault.

The court ordered that he should go to a young offenders' institution for eight months for detention and training.

It is the first time locally that a juvenile has lost their freedom for breach of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order.

Bexhill police commander Inspector Dick Coates said it should serve as a warning to others that ASBOs will be enforced.