A local vagrant who recently returned to Alderley Edge after a year away has been issued with an Anti Social Behaviour Order by Macclesfield Magistrates Court.
After 26 separate incidents were reported to Police between 23rd July and 21st August 2013, Wilmslow Neighbourhood Policing Team worked with Paul Bestwick, the Anti-Social Behaviour Co-ordinator with the Safer Cheshire East Partnership, to secure a 5 year ASBO on a well known local vagrant.
He failed to appear at court so the magistrates dealt with the case in his absence. He was sentenced in respect of two offences of drunk and disorderly and one offence of using obscene and profane language for which he had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing - he was fined for each offence.
In addition to the fine, the magistrates found that the man had acted in an anti social manner, which caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to one or more persons not of the same household and they saw fit to impose a five year Anti Social Behaviour Order on him.
The homeless man, who had only returned to the area a few days after his previous ASBO had become obsolete, has been given strict conditions as regards his behaviour should he return to the village again.
He is prohibited from drinking alcohol in a public place within the exclusion area, using or encouraging others to use offensive, threatening or intimidating language or behaviour in any public place or towards any person in the exclusion area and entering or loitering outside any premises in Alderley Edge from which he has been excluded or asked to leave by the owner or manager of that premises.
Sgt Andy Miller said "Orders such as this are quite time consuming to organise and have granted so we only take them out if we feel it is absolutely necessary and in the interests of the local community. In this particular case we are satisfied with the outcome which will enable us to protect local residents from anti social behaviour."
The ASBO expires at midnight on on 17th September 2018
