A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has appeared before Swindon magistrates charged with breaching an anti-social behaviour order.
Last week the boy, whose identity was withheld by the court, became the first person in North Wiltshire to be given such an order.
The boy had admitted engaging in anti-social acts, including causing a nuisance on school premises when he was expelled, causing harassment to shopkeepers and residents in Highworth and taking a dog from a garden and threatening to harm it with a hammer.
He was banned from parts of the town and given a night-time curfew. Yesterday the boy appeared before town magistrates charged with breaching the order as well as with escaping from lawful custody and possessing a blade.
Rob Ross, defending, applied for an adjournment to allow him to investigate the alleged breach.
No pleas were entered by the boy, and magistrates released him on the condition that he abide by the requirements of the anti-social behaviour order and have no contact with witnesses.
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