A 14-year-old York boy has been placed under curfew and will be barred from a street in the city after he became the subject of York's second anti-social behaviour order.

The boy admitted that his behaviour towards people in the street was of such a nature that it justified making the order.

We cannot identify the boy or the street because magistrates today made an identification ban.

The boy's solicitor said that his behaviour had changed in the four or five months since the last major incident and that his family were having difficulty finding accommodation because of other court action taken against them.

City of York Council with the support of North Yorkshire Police made ten complaints that between July 10 and November 10 last year the boy was involved in public order matters, criminal damage and lighting a fire in a private garden.

Today the boy admitted that he had behaved in an antisocial way.

The order states that the boy cannot be outside in the street between 9pm and 7am except in the presence of his mother.

The family is expected to leave the street soon. After they do so he cannot visit the street at all.

The boy is also forbidden to cause criminal damage or public disorder or harassment or to incite others to do so.

The order, which was made at today's civil sitting of the magistrates, runs for two years.

John Howard, representing the boy, said his client accepts that during the summer he and other friends behaved in an anti-social manner in the street on a number of occasions.

However he has since behaved himself and put it behind him.

"In general terms he is growing up," he said.

The Evening Press asked magistrates to lift an order banning identification of the boy to enable the order to be properly enforced.

Mr Howard said this was not in the public interest and would have a detrimental effect on the family.

Magistrates refused the request but gave no reasons.

The court heard that the council and police could tell people in the street by letter or a public meeting about the order.

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