Pig-tailed teenage Small Heath member of B515 gang handed ASBO

Dec 17 2010 by Nick McCarthy, Birmingham Mail

A PIG-tailed teenage tearaway has been handed an anti-social behaviour order for bringing months of misery to an inner city community as part of a notorious street gang.

Jenny Arkansan, 17, of Arthur Street, Small Heath, was handed the ASBO after a trial at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, during which she was described as a key member of the B515 gang, which has caused disruption and anguish in Highgate, Southacre and Lee Bank.

The court was shown CCTV footage of Arkansan with a group who huddled to light a firework, which was then fired towards a group of youngsters, who were queuing for an under 18 event at a nightclub in Broad Street in November.

The full terms of the order will not be decided until the New Year.

Birmingham City Council has asked the judge to approve that the ASBO will be effective for three years.

And they have requested that the order will include a ban on Arkansan carrying or wearing a black and white bandana or any type of face mask.

They also want her banned from two city centre zones and for the order to forbid her from socialising with 31 named individuals – including a 12-year-old boy.

Two co-defendants, Rushaine Keith, aged 19, and Emmanuel Koryang, aged 18, accepted similar orders at earlier hearings in October.