A WARRANT has been issued for a homeless man charged with breaching an order banning him from the hospital grounds.

Andrew Hooson, 37, whose address is given as the Salvation Army in Heaton Street, Blackburn, was given the ‘CrASBO’ last month after repeatedly attacking nurses and racially abusing security staff at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Police said he has hurled abuse at workers, been drunk and disorderly, carried out physical attacks and was most recently convicted of racially abusing a guard.

Hooson racked up a catalogue of drunken and violent behaviour over the past year.

He is not allowed to attend Royal Blackburn Hospital or anywhere in its grounds unless he has a medical appointment, visiting an immediate relative or to receive genuine emergency treatment.

If he is legally at the hospital he must not behave in a manner likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to anybody present.

If he is asked to leave by NHS staff or security staff he must do so immediately.

But he is now charged with breaching the order by failing to leave the hospital grounds on February 7 and then allegedly failing to make a bail date last week.

Blackburn Magistrates’ Court issues a warrant for his arrest.