Courts crack down.

Byline: James Johnston

A Middlesbrough teenager has been hit with a three-year Asbo.

Terrence Allon Agiadis, 18, of Elmhurst Gardens, Hemlington, was served with the amended order by Teesside Magistrates Court yesterday.

And in a separate case a notorious beggar was jailed for breaching an Asbo.

Agiadis, who was given an interim Asbo in October, is banned from behaving in a manner that intimidates or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, or inciting or encouraging others to do so.

He cannot congregate in public with a group of more than three people where their behaviour is likely to cause alarm or distress.

He is not to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle on a public footpath, pavement or green area and congregate in public with 13 named individuals.

He is prevented from entering areas of Hemlington and starting fires in public places and discharging, igniting or throwing fireworks in public places. He cannot interfere or impede in any way with the operation of the Fire Brigade.

Agiadis was also banned from possessing any open container of alcoholic drink in public.

In the other case, Terence Stuart Elliot, 31, of Ruby Street, Middlesbrough was sent to prison for 12 months at Teesside Magistrates' Court for breaching his Asbo.

Elliot was a ring-leader of a six-strong gang of vagrant alcoholics, who regularly used shopping precincts as their toilet, bedroom and drinking den.

In August last year he was handed a full two-year anti-social behaviour order which banned him from plaguing shoppers in Middlesbrough centre and imposed an exclusion zone around the town centre area.

In September this year Elliot breached the Asbo by entering Wilson Street in the town.

A previous suspended sentence for breaching his Asbo five times was imposed last week by magistrates.

They sent him to prison for three months and nine months consecutively.