Criminal behaviour orders imposed

Criminal Behaviour Orders have been imposed separately on two individuals in Newark and Sherwood as part of on-going action to help make communities safer.

Both cases, heard before Mansfield Magistrates, involved anti-social behaviour.

The pair were brought before the court in a partnership between Nottinghamshire Police and Newark and Sherwood District Council, which has launched a major Cleaner, Safer, Greener campaign.

Lee Bowman, 41, of no fixed abode, who has a long history of anti-social behaviour, was banned from nearly all shops in Ollerton town centre under the terms of the order.

He is also banned from using threatening, intimidating, insulting or abusive words or behaving in a way that may cause alarm in public in Ollerton and Boughton.

The order is in place for two years and if breached, Bowman could face a prison sentence.

In a separate case, Jenny Jones, 52, of Kirklington Road, Rainworth, who bombarded 999 and 101 call handlers with non-urgent and malicious calls and harassed a neighbour, was also made subject to a CBO.

The court was told Jones made hundreds of calls to the police via the emergency 999 and non-emergency 101 number over the past 18 months, during which the majority of the calls involved her being abusive to call handling staff.

Following the hearing Jones is banned from calling 999 emergency service for any reason other than a genuine emergency and contacting the 101 non-emergency service for any reason other than a genuine police matter.

Other terms within the order, which runs until June 28, 2020, relate to causing nuisance to a number of residents in the village and ban her from making contact with them.

Mr David Lloyd, leader of Newark and Sherwood District Council, said: “One of the main elements of the council’s Cleaner, Safer, Greener campaign is to protect the community against anti-social behaviour and these cases serve to demonstrate that we will not tolerate behaviour by individuals that causes alarm and distress.

“In the case of Lee Bowman, the district council and Nottinghamshire Police successfully used powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Police and Crime Act 2014 to put measures in place to stop this individual’s negative impact on the residents of Ollerton and Boughton.

"This individual has been given considerable support by the police, council and the homeless support organisation Framework but he has chosen not to accept it or any help that has been offered to assist him from this pattern of persistent offending."

Inspector Louise Clarke, who has day-to-day command of policing in Newark and Sherwood, said: “We worked closely with partners to offer Bowman many opportunities to change his lifestyle.

"He instead chose to ignore this and behave in a manner which has caused harassment, alarm and distress to members of the public and misery to the victims of his criminal activities and his behaviour could not be allowed to continue.

"We were left with no choice but to take more serious action and will continue to do so with anyone whose behaviour is a detriment to the local community and who refuse to engage with us.

“Similarly, Jenny Jones was taken to court as a last resort as she refused to comply with requests to stop. Nottinghamshire Police takes very seriously the impact of diverting away staff from genuine calls and will take robust action to protect the services the public rely on in an emergency situation.”

To report incidents of anti-social behaviour use the council’s online form www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/eform/anti-socialbehaviour/ or go to the Nottinghamshire Crimestoppers telephone line 0800 555 111 or use the online form at https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information