Darren Frost, left, and Scott WatersTEARAWAY teenagers Scott Waters and Darren Frost have been warned they face prison if they breach anti-social behaviour orders.

The orders on Waters, 16, of Rabley Wood View, Marlborough, and Frost, 14, of Francklyn Acre, include a 10pm to 7am curfew.

The ground-breaking orders were applied for on Thursday at Kennet Magistrates Court in Devizes by Sarsen Housing Association to protect its tenants in the Portfields area of Marlborough.

Sarsen used new legislation that allows housing associations to apply for ASBOs.

It was also the first time that ASBOs had been applied for in respect of Marlborough defendants.

Waters was made the subject of an immediate ASBO relating to the whole of the Kennet district and Frost was given an interim order.

Frost's lawyer Andrew Watts-Jones told the court that the Kennet district was too wide an area for his client's ASBO conditions to apply and asked for the parish of Marlborough to be substituted.

The court was unable to locate a map showing the parish boundaries. Instead, for more than an hour Sarsen lawyer Robert Wassell and Mr Watts-Jones deliberated over a road map before finally agreeing that a map with a rough outline of the town drawn-in by Mr Watts-Jones would be acceptable temporarily.

Magistrates could only make an interim ASBO on Frost until a definitive map is produced and they adjourned the hearing to December 9.

Waters accepted a list of conditions proposed by Sarsen with a stipulation that he must not alarm or harass anyone or cause damage or incite others to do so within the Kennet district.

Waters agreed not to enter the Acres estate except for specific visits to two stated addresses.

He was ordered not to communicate with Frost in any way and to stay away from four named people.

Water's lawyer Robert Chapman said: "Scott has agreed to the order as drafted."

Frost's lawyer Mr Watts-Jones challenged a condition that referred to educational premises and said the teenager was receiving individual tuition in Marlborough.

He said Frost was due to go to a special school in North Wiltshire "with a regime designed to help tackle children who are troublesome at school".

Asking for the educational premises condition to be dropped, Mr Watts-Jones said: "It will not help the school and will interfere with the regime they want to impose."

Mr Wassell responded that the condition would protect everyone at the school from any bad behaviour by Frost.

Alastair McKenzie from the Youth Offending Team told the court Frost was currently excluded from school and that his behaviour had been disruptive and intimidating towards staff.

Mr McKenzie asked the court to impose the educational premises condition because it was hoped, he said, that Frost could eventually be returned to full-time education.

The magistrates decided to withdraw the educational premises condition on Frost.

Conditions agreed by Frost under the interim order included the 10pm to 7am curfew; not to enter Lawrence Acre, Baylie Acre except for the purposes of visiting the Mace shop using a route defined by the court; must not make contact or associate with Scott Waters and must not approach or harass four named people.

The orders on both teenagers were made for a two-year period.

Sarsen applied for the orders after receiving many complaints over a long period about the behaviour of a gang of youths on the Portfields estate and particularly outside the Lawrence Acre retirement flats.

No evidence was given in court about the alleged anti-social behaviour by the pair because both agreed to accept the ASBOs.

However, last week Sarsen told the Gazette that residents had complained about foul language and abuse from a group of as many as 20 youths who gather most evenings on the Portfields estate.

In August the Gazette spoke to families on the estate who said members of the group made their lives hell by their behaviour that included playing ball games in the early hours.

Waters and Scott had both signed "acceptable behaviour contracts" previously but both broke them within 48 hours.

Police were called to 17 incidents on the estate within a six week period.