An Order to Billy Yob: You're Free to Offend ; Harry Blackwood
Mail on Sunday › April 01, 2005
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WO weeks ago I complained bitterly about a young thug who was given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order for a catalogue of crimes, including assaulting a police officer and threatening to stab a neighbour.
But it appears I was wrong to be so dismissive of the punishment handed out to 20-year-old Michael Lawson from Morpeth in Northumberland.See the full content of this document
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An Order to Billy Yob: You're Free to Offend ; Harry Blackwood
New figures show that most yobs and thugs in the North East don't even get that slap across the wrist.
While Asbos have been scattered like confetti in the rest of the country, police and councils here seem reluctant to use them, with just 218 issued since they were introduced ...See the full content of this document
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