First Criminal Behaviour Order issued for Thames Valley is Newbury man

CBOs are a new police power introduced under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, to replace Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).
The provisions came into force on October 20 but this is the first time Thames Valley Police has implemented one.
It means Danny Peter Heap could be arrested and subject to a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment if he enters, or tries to enter, any licensed premises that is a member of the Newbury Pub Watch scheme until December 17, 2016.
Town magistrates heard last Thursday, that the 22-year-old, currently of no fixed address, regularly made a nuisance of himself by trying to enter pubs from which he had been banned.
Jane Davies, prosecuting, said that on the latest occasion, Mr Heap was ejected from Kukui night club in Newbury Market Place and was abusive to door staff.
“Mr Heap admitted being drunk and disorderly on November 30 this year.
He has previous convictions for offences including criminal damage, battery, threatening behaviour, assault and other public order offences.
In short, added Ms Davies: “He is no stranger to the courts.”
She formally asked the court to impose the region’s first CBO on Mr Heap.
Stephen Collins, defending, said his client did not seek to oppose the application and added: “He is banned from more than 30 pubs but this order will give police powers of arrest.
“Although banned, he accepts he has ‘tried it on’ at various pubs, occasionally with success.
“On this occasion he was drunk he had recently split from his girlfriend and consoled himself with drink.”
Magistrates made Mr Heap subject to a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered him to pay a statutory surcharge of £15.
They also made him subject to a two-year CBO and presiding magistrate Nicola Buchanan-Dunlop stressed: “If you break this order you will be arrested and could be sent to prison.”
Afterwards, Thames Valley Police’s regional anti-social behaviour officer Pc Pete Duffy said: “Heap had previously been given a Pub Watch ban, which he persistently breached and whilst doing so became abusive to members of staff at licensed premises as well as police officers.
“This order is designed to tackle Heap’s anti-social behaviour and address his offending. If he breaches the order it provides the police with the power to arrest him. The police and members of the Newbury Pub Watch Scheme will work together to manage this order.”