Yobs in court for flouting ASBO’s
Friday 29th May 2009, 11:40AM BST.
Three teenage yobs who terrorised a Wolverhampton neighbourhood and flouted their ASBOs have appeared in court.
Adam Jenks, aged 17, along with Jordan Donnelly and Ryan White, both aged 16, were found guilty of breaching the orders given to them just six months ago following a campaign of violence and vandalism.
The three were among five members of a gang called the Low Hill Youth who were given three-year ASBOs in November, after 185 allegations of nuisance behaviour against them.
The orders banned all three from associating with each other.
But at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court Sandra Houston, from Dickinson Avenue, took to the witness box to say she had seen all three together as part of a larger gang outside her home.
She said: “There was a gang of about 25 outside my house, I know I saw them. The gang was there from 9pm until 11pm, they were trying to break down a street sign.
“They were making noise and generally being a nuisance, it happened right by my front gate.”
Jenks and White, both of Leacroft Avenue, and Donnelly, of Dickinson Avenue, were described as a “nuisance” and found guilty of breaching their ASBOs after a day-long trial.
All three took to the witness box and denied seeing each other, but District Judge Martin Brown added their claims were “unacceptable and inconsistent.”
Judge Brown told them: “I have no doubt that all three were there. All options are open when it comes to the punishment.
“The youths had publicity when they were named in relation to the first ASBO hearing, and I’m happy for them to be identified.”
Jenks will appear back at court on June 11 and Donnelly on June 18 after pre-sentence reports are drawn up.
White has had an interim ASBO extended from August until October for the breach.
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There is no place in society for village idiots like this.
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Well done to Sandra Houston for testifying against a bunch of imbeciles!!!
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Well done to Sandra Houston for testifying against a bunch of imbeciles.
Society needs more people like her!!
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You carn’t help but feel that these clowns deserve to be shipped off to one of the colinies. I’m sure some wooley mindeed liberal would take offence to that, but how about the offence these people inflict on hardworking memebers of our society – justice seems to fail those that work to upkeep it
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Dear Newbridge Wolf, hate to be the one to tell you this but Britain no longer has what you quaintly call ‘colinies’ to send them to. It also has nothing to do with liberalism – these are Blair’s sons and Maggie’s grandkids and the result of thirty years of right wing leadership that promotes personal greed and tells society to go to hell.
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Jonsi, are other well behaved kids with responsible families also products of “the system”?
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“Jonsi, are other well behaved kids with responsible families also products of “the system”? ”
Not at all, but the well behaved kids have had a loving upbringing- these poor sods who terrorise people clearly haven’t. These children are the products of the broken system.If that isn’t blatantly obvious I don’t know what is.
“You carn’t help but feel that these clowns deserve to be shipped off to one of the colinies. I’m sure some wooley mindeed liberal would take offence to that, but how about the offence these people inflict on hardworking memebers of our society – justice seems to fail those that work to upkeep it”
You clearly don’t have an understanding of the word liberal. Whether you are using it with an upper or lower case. The liberal ideal is that people are treated as equals- and if these kids ever were treated as equals we wouldn’t be having these problems. these kids have been failed from the get go. And as an earlier post said, that’ll be the right wing government that ruled us for so long. Perhaps you don’t agree with this,what with you agreeing with the idea of colonial power.
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ASBOs do not work. This have been proven time and time again. How can something that some peolpe consider a badge of honour, be any sort of deterrent. They’re just another cop out introduced by Labour, rather than dealing with the real issues. ASBOs have never worked and never will.
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Jake, the kids with strong families are the lucky ones. What is different from 40 yers ago is that when families fail many kids now find solice in gangs. The gap between rich and poor means that in ‘sink estates’ there may be very few positive role models, as those who can get out usually do. The police and community leaders once belonged to the same communities as poor families but now they are seen as alien imposters who serve only ‘their own sort of people’.
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The best thing for the E&S to do with this story is to print it by all means but looking at the pictures today these scumbags are basking in thier glory by seeing themselves in the paper,most probably had prints to put on thier Facebook page now..
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Dear Jonsi, I shall reply in a similarly patronising vein as you did to me. I am indeed well aware that we have no real colonies left, although I’m sure we have a few rocks dotted about the worlds sees of stategic importance, maybe they’d learn the value of society there. How you can blame an individuals actions on past leaders of this country is beyond me, if that realy was the case than why don’t we all just blame the system. The fact is that some time ago, some well minded twits abolished personal responsibility for those who perpatrate crime while being young, instead believing that society was to blame. This has resulted in a rise of antisociable behaviour from our youth because there are no real measures for their control.
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Tazer it out of them. They’ll never commit another crime ever again.
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Sorry Newbridge Wolf, did not intend to patronise you, just voicing my opinion as you did yours.
If I misbehave can I go to the Bahamas…please!
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“There is no place in society for village idiots like this.”
Fred, I’m afraid there is. Try looking at Owen Street, Tipton..during the times there isn’t an election. It’s normal round there (ask residents).
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The problem we have is that there is no dicipline in society. Teachers have no power, the police have no power. When I was a kid we had respect for those in authority. Because of “human rights” authority means NOTHING. That is why the kids are out of control. That is why my mother is now frightened to leave the house after 6pm. If at school a kid is being disruptive, a teacher hasn’t even the power to make them leave the classroom. If the pupil screams, shouts, tells you to f-off, you have to accept it. It’s a bloody joke. I know it’s cliched, but these miscruents need a bloody good clip round the ear. I for one can’t wait to leave this country and all the bleeding hearts like Jonsi are welcome to “hug the hoodies” and accept devient behaviour as the norm.
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ship them off to conflict zones. they can clean boots, toilets, scrub vegetables, clean tanks…
why should British citizens serving their country putting their lives at risk have to do menail tasks whilst genetic fallout such as the above run riot back at home.
You fail to obey an asbo, you give up your freedoms and be forced to redeem yourself by serving your country – and the law abiding citizen you’ve been terrorising.
Discipline is no more. the liberals who have removed this critical aspect of society live in well-to-do subarbs well away from the stench they have created.
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7. Sorry Katherine I missed your poorly constructed criticism of my comment. I think I understand that the idea of liberalism is one that is very similar to communism, in that it sounds a great idea but is singularly useless in its application. People are different, people have different backgrounds, some very tough, but the individual has responsibility in making decisions, true these can be harder due to circumstances, but nether the less there is free will. Unless you wish to argue against self determinism, but I think that may take up a lot more of the E&S Board. By merely accepting people’s bad behaviour and pushing responsibility onto outside forces you are not making them take responsibility for their own actions. This helps to further perpetuate the cycle of abuse and desolation that you believe causes their bad behaviour.
Life is tough and unfair, people who whinge and cry about being let down have obviously forgotten this – incidentally when we had real poverty in this country there was not such a big issue with respect with our troubled youth – how would you like to explain that?
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Can I say these yobs are NOT “poor sods” Katherine. If you read the original article when they got the ASBO’s they have had more chances than well behaved kids in Wolverhampton. Goodies for Hoodies was the over riding theme. Though I agree the system is not great it is all we have and if the huge majority of kids can live by it then why are you excusing those that CHOOSE not too??
Sandra is incredibly brave to do what she did. In this day and age of “I didn’t see it” she should be who we are talking about. NOT vile kids who are single handedly trying to destroy a community for a bit of fun because they are bored. Newbridge Wolf is right…… personal responsibilty is the key!!!!
I just hope the brave actions of Sandra will help others to stand up and say “Enough is enough!! We, as a community, have the right to be safe in our homes and on our streets. These yobs have NO rights to try and take that away!”
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4. newbridge wolf…. I myself happen to live on one of these rocks your talking about down in the Pacific ocean, and i for one don’t want these scumbags down on my rock thank you very much…
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