SOME of the most persistent offenders and regulars to Worcester courts have been given strict Criminal Behaviour Orders this year in an effort to prevent further offending.

A CBO is an order of the courts designed to tackle the most serious and persistent anti-social individuals.

Breaches of CBOs are a criminal offence in themselves.

 

One such order was made against Michael Sefton who has regularly featured in the Worcester News. 

The 59-year-old, of no fixed abode but formerly of Little Priest Lane, Pershore, was previously given a community protection notice banning him from entering the Tesco Express store in Pershore.

But Sefton ignored that notice telling the court he entered the store "in protest" on August 3.

The offence was Sefton's latest - in the past year alone Sefton was in court for damaging an NHS A&E cubicle and racially abusing Worcestershire Royal Hospital staff.

In September Sefton was given the stricter CBO to last for three years. 

Among the conditions of his order, Sefton is prohibited from driving his wheelchair into the road causing traffic to have to swerve and causing a nuisance at the hospital.

 

READ MORE: Familiar face to the court given strict behaviour order

 

Connor Loach, of no fixed abode but previously of Vawdrey Close, Stourport and Park Street, Worcester, has been handed various court orders but after those were unsuccessful he has been put on the CBO. 

The 26-year-old's latest offence was to jump on a bike before saying to the victim 'thanks for the bike' and riding away. 

Loach has previously been involved in fights in the street, assaults, shouting and swearing in public.

Among the conditions of his two-year order are not to fight in the streets, bang on residents' doors or behave aggressively.

 

READ MORE: Worcester serial offender handed CBO after latest stealing offence

 

Frances Payne, owner of Hampton Mill in Evesham, has been slapped with a five-year community order in February. 

The 56-year-old was given the CBO which prohibits her from being abusive or aggressive to any member of the public using the footpath at the beauty spot.

The order came after Payne used barbed wire and chains to stop ramblers using a public path.

 

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Kieran Alton, of Malvern, has been placed on an order which bans him from kicking and punching people.

The 24-year-old's two-year criminal behaviour order was granted on the conviction for criminal damage to a property in Moat Crescent, Malvern.

Alton is prohibited from kicking, punching, banging or throwing things at doors, walls or property not owned by him and making false reports to police.

 

READ MORE: Man banned from 'kicking and punching' people

 

Tony Dean Davies, 33, of Rynal Place, Evesham is the subject of a three-year criminal behaviour order (CBO) after he stole solar panels from a house in Pershore.

The CBO was granted for the conviction as well as for theft of a car battery from a property in Bretforton, near Evesham.

Davies' lengthy CBO includes conditions he cannot carry any scrap metal in any vehicle, or climb over any fences, gates or walls in order to enter onto land, sites or property

 

READ MORE: 'Hedgehog hunter' stole solar panels from disabled woman's home

 

Kian Lock, 21, has been handed a two-year CBO after stealing from a Worcester charity shop and threatening to stab someone outside a city primary school the same day.

Lock, of no fixed abode, was given the order in July. 

Under the order, he cannot sniff or inhale any canisters of lighter gas or similar substances in any public place or be directly rude or abusive to anyone. 

 

READ MORE: Lighter-sniffing charity shop thief made school stab threats

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