Only two years?
What offensive weapons were they? Were they bladed instruments? Surly a custodial sentence is called for as per the reported offensive weapons.

I am not a betting man but what would the odds be of this thug breaching his ban?

Also even if he doesn't breach it I am certain his behaviour will remain so he will simply takes his thuggish ways elsewhere. Better to have him removed from society for a few years and behind bars so as to leave those decent people to get on with their lives without fear.

I am good at remembering faces and will have my eyes peeled next time I am in the city centre. Time was when thugs like this couldn't get away with this behaviour because the community would have dealt with him. Now people just walk on and ignore crime.

I was invloved in an incident when somebody without ID was refused alcohol and boy did she kick off with the till worker. A really disgusting, foul mouthed tirade belittling and abusing this poor chap. I told her to calm down and go elsewhere and she started on me! Apparently I had 'dissed her' and she would 'make me plead big time' and would 'face me up with a toolie and pop me'.

I didn't understand a word but was mildly amused.

What kind of people are being bred these days?

I wonder of one of the offensive weapons was a Woodbine?

Laurie Bramhall.The TV programme 'Little Britain'is old hat now but the writers could bring themselves up to date just reading this forum.You brought tears to my eyes,sorry.Its NOT a laughing matter.

Laurie I know what happend to you is not a laughing matter but it made me laugh on a Monday which cant be bad

Has Police criminal photography gone down the pan,so what does this person look like face-on ?... Unless he is between Seven-Eight foot tall,that will be my expectation of this individual.You can forget about computer enhanced ageing..If that photo was taken from a similar angle above,it would be just as useless.

He has also been warned against acting in any anti-social way, threatening violence, or carrying any offensive weapon in public.

As all these are criminal offences anyway, need he be warned. He should just be punished correctly the first time, not warned to behave and given another chance.

well it's your own fault Laurie,you should'nt go round dissin sisters.no wot i mean?

Rob Wilson

While those all are offences, to be punished criminally requires them to be proven in court, while the degree of proof required for an ASBO is much lower, and its breach easier to prove than the original offences

Further to my previous comment..ask yourselves,if that was a Passport Application photograph would it get passed ?

at last Manchester City is trying to rid itself of vermin,

This piece of scum should be made to sign on at the Police station on the hour every hour for 2 years, that way his mind will at least become slightly more focused on law and order rather than behaving like a pathetic little thug he is,

Thanks Citycentre, makes sense that. Always wondered why some asbos were only asking the person not to do something they shouldnt be doing anyway.