A TEENAGER said to have led a six-year campaign of terror in his neighbourhood has been made the subject of Anti Social Behaviour Order.
Richard Bebbington, aged 19, of Malton Avenue, Whitefield, was named at Bury Magistrates Court as the ringleader of a gang of youths on the Elms estate.
The gang - said to be regularly drunk and high on cannabis - blew up a neighbour's kitchen sink after pumping gas into the drain pipe while it was being repaired.
Cars were regularly vandalised and the gang were blamed for rowdy and drunken behaviour and racist graffiti.
Bury Council took him to court and won a two-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order even though Bebbington had not been convicted of a criminal offence since December 2003.
The order means he cannot associate with other members of his gang or commit any offences of anti-social behaviour including trespass, hurling abuse and drinking in a public place.
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