Police call for help on estate yobs

Police today called on residents to help them enforce Asbos on five members of a gang of yobs who brought misery to residents in Wolverhampton.

Ryan White, aged 16, Adam Jenks, 17, Jordan Donnelly, 15, Kyle Crutchley, 16, and Patrick Thornton, 15, were each given three-year orders designed to split them up by a judge at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court this week.

They were said to be part of a gang calling themselves Low Hill Youth, which waged a campaign of violence and harassment against locals.

All have been banned from the Costcutter store on Bushbury Lane and prevented from entering the area of the roundabout of the junction of Leacroft Avenue, Whitgreave Avenue and Dickinson Avenue.

The group has also been banned from contacting named witnesses, associating with each other in public, and using violence or abusive behaviour to anybody in public .

They have been forbidden from possessing spray cans or marker pens, possessing knives or blades and throwing missiles.

Thornton has been banned from having any firearm or air weapon in public.

White, of Leacroft Avenue, Donnelly, of Dickinson Avenue, and Thornton, of Old Fallings Crescent, all Low Hill, did not contest the orders. Jenks and Crutchley, both of Leacroft Avenue in Low Hill, fought the applications but lost.

Insp Jon Turley, of Low Hill police, said today he would pursue any breaches as "rigorously as possible". We need the help of the community in policing and enforcing these orders."

* Anyone who witnesses any of the gang breaking their orders should contact Wednesfield police on 0845 113 5000.