Ref. 71506-63PROSTITUTE Miaya Bryan was given a third last chance by Swindon magistrates when she appeared before them for breaking an anti-social behaviour order within four days but hours later she was in custody charged with breaking bail conditions.

Bryan had contested the ASBO banning her from the Manchester Road and Gorse Hill areas between 6pm and 6am, but it was imposed on August 13 after she was convicted of prostitution.

She appeared before the bench on Wednesday for breaching the ASBO and was granted bail for a week with a curfew but was arrested the same night.

Yesterday she admitted breaking the conditions and was remanded in custody until September 1.

At the earlier hearing prosecutor Colin Meek described how she was spotted inside the area covered by the ban on August 17. On that occasion she was bailed for the probation service to investigate whether the address she gave in court was suitable for a curfew order. Magistrates warned her she was being given another chance to prove she could stick to conditions imposed on her.

Mr Meek said she was seen first at 8.30pm in Fleming Way and an hour later in Corporation Street drinking a can of cider.

"It is a clear cut breach made within a very short space of time and goes to the heart of the order not to go into the area where prostitutes ply their trade," he said.

Bryan, who has a list of previous convictions including theft, assault, failing to surrender, breach of community sentence and possession of drugs, was convicted of two charges of loitering for the purposes of prostitution when she appeared at the ASBO hearing.

On August 6 she admitted another charge of theft. Her sentence was deferred for four months to allow her a chance to comply with a community rehabilitation order imposed 10 days earlier, when she was warned she was on her last chance.

Martin Wiggins, for Bryan, said she had not been loitering in the area for prostitution. She said went to the police station to collect some belongings, but accepted she could have gone earlier.

Mr Wiggins said Bryan was miserable because she had lost her mobile phone and money and was facing a long walk home. The shop she intended to visit was closed, so she chose another, which took her inside the red light zone.

He said his client was on the edge of a precipice.

If given a custodial sentence, he said, she would be denied the opportunity to achieve her goals and the drugs she had stopped using would be readily available in prison.

At yesterday's hearing Mr Wiggins did not make an application for bail and asked the magistrates to adjourn sentencing for investigations to be made into whether another address belonging to her sister was suitable for the curfew.

Tina Clarke