A 26-year-old man, Mark Wlodarczyk, has been given a two-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) at Bath and Wansdyke Magistrates Court.
The court heard that Wlodarczyk had been subject to an earlier ASBO in 2006 banning him from the city centre for five years. He has 39 previous convictions, many for public order, drunkenness and drug-related crimes.
The latest ASBO application was made on June 6th 2013 by the Police Anti-Social Behaviour Team. The court was satisfied that Wlodarczyk had acted in an anti-social manner which was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to the public and that the order was necessary to protect people from further anti-social acts by him.
Tim Harris, Bath police’s ASB manager, said Wlodarczyk’s behaviour consisted of public disorder in the street, using insulting words and behaviour, spitting at police officers, using threatening and abusive words and behaviour towards two women in Avon Street Car Park, Bath, kicking a glass door and shouting at staff and customers within business premises, being drunk and disorderly, being in possession of cannabis, assaulting a police officer, and entering female lavatories.
Wlodarczyk’s prohibitions within the ASBO are:
- Search for or remove cigarette butts from any ashtray in or on any commercial premises. Including outside tables;
- Verbally insult any person in a public place;
- Go into any female lavatories;
- Go within 5 metres of certain business premises named in the order;
- Kick or punch any door;
- Go into Avon Street pay and display car park;
- Enter the Kingsmead Leisure Complex, James Street West, Bath;
- Enter McDonalds, Southgate Bath;
Mr Harris said: “ Anti-social behaviour orders have been a very useful and effective way of controlling offenders behaviour within the B&NES area. They are there to protect the wider community and to enable the police to take swift action before anti-social behaviour takes place or escalates.
“Applications for these orders are reserved for those offenders who have repeatedly caused harassment, alarm or distress to the public. There are numerous reports held within the police systems of Wlodarczyk’s poor behaviour, and we are confident that this order will significantly reduce his behaviour and reduce the number of potential victims.”
