PROSTITUTE Terri-Lee Pearce has been banned from the Manchester Road area for two weeks while she is on bail.

The 20-year-old drug addict was caught in what is often called the red light area of town twice in five days, Swindon magistrates were told.

Pearce, of Westbury Road, Penhill, has a string of previous convictions for prostitution and was on conditional discharges imposed in London earlier this year for three similar charges.

Stacey Turner, prosecuting, said police officers spotted Pearce near Manchester Road at about 8pm on Thursday, May 1, ten minutes later on Salisbury Street and then on the corner of Alfred Street and Manchester Road.

Miss Turner said "She was spotted walking slowly, looking into passing vehicles, flicking her hair over her shoulders and on one occasion walked in front of a vehicle trying to flag it down."

She added that Pearce was charged and released on bail on the condition that she did not go to the Manchester Road area, and was given a map telling her where from where she was banned.

However at about 10pm on the night of Bank Holiday Monday she was caught in the area again, on Bathurst Road, and arrested for being in breach of her bail conditions.

In court she admitted loitering for the purpose of prostitution and being in breach of two conditional discharges.

The court was told that she was put on the six month conditional discharges in March by Thames magistrates in East London, after she was convicted of three counts of soliciting and one of failing to surrender to custody.

The Swindon magistrates heard that she was also currently on bail for breaching a probation order and was due to be sentenced on May 21 after pre-sentence reports were prepared.

She was bailed bail until May 21 with various conditions among them staying out of the red light area.