Ban order on disabled man.A nightmare neighbour who uses a wheelchair was warned yesterday to behave or face eviction from his council ( flat and possibly imprisonment. David Oxley, who lost both his legs because of disease, insulted and racially abused vulnerable neighbours in his block of flats and intimidated nurses, social services and council staff who tried to help him. The 61-year-old begged in the Metro interchange area, or in Gateshead town, shouted insults and urinated in public. Gateshead Council applied for an anti-social behaviour order. Oxley, of Park Court, Gateshead, did not appear but Gateshead magistrates heard the case in his absence and made the two-year order. He is banned from drinking alcohol in public or taking part in activity that causes harassment, alarm or distress In English law Harassment, Alarm or Distress forms part of the Public Order Act 1986 (amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) under sections 4A and 5. Provisions of the law The Public Order Act 1986, Section 5 states: He is not allowed to beg, urinate urinate /uri·nate/ (u´ri-nat) to discharge urine. u·ri·nate v. To excrete urine. urinate to void urine. or defecate def·e·cate v. To void feces from the bowels. def  e·ca tion n. in public or use
abusive behaviour. He can be jailed for five years for breaching the
order.
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