Five year ban for teen yob
Jul 11 2009 By Ross McCarthy
A TEENAGER has been banned from going into a specific area in Birmingham after making life a misery for resident.
Piara Purewal, 18, has also been banned from associating with “criminal friends” or wearing a mask or balaclava as part of a criminal anti-social behaviour order.
The order will run for five years and prohibits Purewal from streets where Hockley borders on Winson Green, except for one road to get to his home.
If he breaches the order Purewal will be arrested and could go to prison.
Mr Gwynn Price-Rowlands said Purewal had over a period of time caused “distress and harassment to neighbours” living in Hockley.
Purewal, of Capstone Avenue, Hockley, agreed to be made subject of the order at Birmingham Crown Court where he appeared for sentence after admitting a charge of perverting the course of justice.
Mr Price-Rowlands said the teenager had been charged with carrying out a knifepoint robbery on a woman and as a result he had been remanded in a young offenders institution.
While there, he said, the defendant had written a letter addressed to a friend which was intercepted by the prison security department.
The letter had asked the friend to go and visit the main witness to the robbery “for as many times as it takes” and “knobble” him.
Mr Price-Rowlands said Purewal had previous convictions for robbery, common assault and intimidating a witness.
Mr Recorder William Andreae-Jones said Purewal’s attempt to pervert the course of justice had not been sophisticated and conditionally discharged him for 12 months.
A spokeswoman for the city council’s anti-social behaviour unit said the CRASBO should give local people more protection from Purewal.
She added Purewal had been causing trouble throughout his teenage years and the council took the opportunity to secure the order while he was already in court.
She said: “We’re very pleased the court has made the order because we want to have some restrictions around the way he’s been behaving.
“What we are seeking to do here is just remove him from the place where he’s been most trouble and protect the residents of that area.
“This should certainly give them more protection than they’ve had in the past.”
